Cynthia Dale

Cynthia Dale is a Canadian actor who works in television and on stage. She was born in Toronto and got her start in 1965, when she went with her sister, the actor Jennifer Dale, to an audition. She became widely known for playing the lawyer Olivia Novak on the drama Street Legal, and for voicing Emma Frost in the animated X-Men series. On film, she appeared in the slasher movie My Bloody Valentine (1981) and in Heavenly Bodies (1984), as the owner of an aerobics studio. She first performed at the Stratford Festival in 1983 and later headlined several musicals there in the 2000s. Her stage work also includes an off-Broadway play in New York City in 1987, playing Helen Bechdel in Fun Home at the CAA Theatre in 2018, and a judging role on the television show Triple Sensation in 2007.