Alberta Watson

Alberta Watson was a Canadian actress. Born in Toronto in 1955, she grew up there and started performing with a local theater group at 15. Her first screen role came at 19 in the CBC movie Honor Thy Father. Early credits included Mitzi in In Praise of Older Women (1978), which earned her a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She later worked with director Colleen Murphy on Shoemaker (1996), and that performance led to a Genie nomination for Best Actress. Watson's notable film parts included Susan Aibelli in Spanking the Monkey (1994), Lauren Murphy in Hackers (1995), and Risa in The Sweet Hereafter (1997), whose cast shared a National Board of Review Award. On television, she was Dr. Rebecca Meyer on Buck James from 1987 to 1988, Madeline on La Femme Nikita from 1997 to 2001, and Erin Driscoll on 24 in 2004 and 2005. She won a 2011 Gemini Award for Heartland.