Tracy Dawson

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Tracy Elizabeth Dawson (born April 9, 1973 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian actress . She celebrated her first major breakthrough on The Gavin Crawford Show from 2000 to 2003. Her real international breakthrough came ten years later with the role of Meghan Fitzpatrick in Call Me Fitz , which makes her one of the main cast of the series. She also worked on the series as a story editor .

life and career

Theater career

Tracy Dawson was born in 1973 in the Canadian capital Ottawa , where she grew up, but came to Toronto at a young age. There she visited the theater group The Second City Toronto , whose training she successfully completed in 1998/99. In 1998 Dawson was nominated for a Cream of Comedy Award; other nominees were Dawn Whitwell , Gord Disley , Gavin Stephens and Gavin Crawford , with Crawford, with whom Dawson completed his training in The Second City and who was to work closely in the years thereafter, won the C $ 5,000 award. In 1999 Dawson was nominated for a Dora Award , named after Dora Mavor Moore , a pioneer of Canadian theater, in the category "Best New Play or Musical" with the cast of the second city play Nude Beach Wear: 100% Off . Further theater appearances followed in the following years; However, nominations and awards were largely absent. She received a nomination for a Canadian Comedy Award in 2001 , but could not win the award. Parallel to her theater career, she also started a career as an actress in the film and television sector. After she had largely withdrawn from the film and television business in 2005, Dawson was mainly active again in the theater sector and during this time wrote, among other things, her first own play entitled Them & Us . The play had its world premiere in January 2009 at Toronto's Theater Passe Muraille ; Tracy Dawson also took on a role. That same year, Dawson starred in the role of Christine in the Canada release and rewrite of Andrew Lloyd Webbers and Ben Elton's The Beautiful Game , The Boys in the Photograph .

Film and television career

Even before she emerged as a Second City alumni, Dawson made her film debut in 1996 in the drama A Life in Shame - The Whole World Is Watching You . A year later she got a lead role in the Canadian television series Go Girl! , followed by an appearance in an episode of Goosebumps - The Hour of the Spirits in 1998. From this time she also played briefly in the comedy series SketchCom , where she mimed various characters. She was also active as a screenwriter in one episode of the series. In the series Twice in Life , she was seen in an episode in 1999 alongside actors such as Al Waxman , Mariette Hartley , David Hewlett and Diahann Carroll . She also appeared in the eleven-minute short film Amateur Night this year. She also starred in the movie Losers in 2000 , starring Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari , and celebrated her first breakthrough with the award-winning and nominated Canadian sketch comedy series The Gavin Crawford Show . There you saw her in all 30 episodes produced in the role of Heather Scranton before the series ended in 2003. Even while the series was running, Tracy Dawson was booked for several other productions; for example for one episode each in the television series The Endless Grind (2001) and Doc (2002), starring Billy Ray Cyrus . Film appearances during this period included a supporting role in the Canadian comedy Duct Tape Forever (2002), as well as mini-roles in Fancy Dancing (2002) and America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003).

At the end of 2003 another film with Dawson's participation was released with the film Honey (in the lead role with Jessica Alba ). In the second and last season of the Lifetime series Wild Card , the committed actress was featured in four episodes in 2004/05. When she was issued her green card in September 2005 and thus got a permanent residence and work permit for the USA, she largely withdrew from the film after producing the Christmas film Recipe for a Perfect Christmas , which was released in December of the same year - and television business and increasingly concentrated on their theater work. It wasn't until 2010 that Dawson returned to the screens, including in the short film Do I Come on Too Strong? next to Ennis Esmer or Brandon McGibbon . That year she also made the main cast of Call Me Fitz , where she slipped into the role of Meghan Fitzpatrick , the squabbling sister of the main character Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick (played by Jason Priestley ). To date (as of November 2013), she has been seen in all episodes of the three previously broadcast seasons and will continue to be in the main cast of the series in the fourth season, which is about to be broadcast. For the half-hour sitcom, Tracy Dawson also works as a scriptwriter, but above all as a story editor . According to the IMDb , she held this office in a large number of different episodes, but always had a changing area of ​​responsibility. She also emerged as one of the scriptwriters for the Canadian sitcom single White Spenny in 2011 .

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Awards and nominations

Awards
  • 2011: Gemini Award in the category “Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series” for her engagement in Call Me Fitz
Nominations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poster of the Cream of Comedy Awards '98 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed November 3, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.timsims.com
  2. ↑ The Boys in the Photograph opens in Canada ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed November 3, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.andrewlloydwebber.com
  3. ↑ Kicks: Boys in the Photograph, Elton & Lloyd Webber Musical, Begins Toronto Run , accessed November 3, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Dawson, Tracy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dawson, Tracy Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa , Ontario, Canada