Ellen-Ray Hennessy

Elley-Ray Hennessy, formerly billed as Ellen-Ray Hennessy, is a Canadian actress with a background in experimental theater, voice work and screen performance. She grew up in Toronto and trained in theater at the University of Windsor. During the 1980s she became known on stage in avant-garde and experimental productions, among them an all-female Julius Caesar for Toronto Workshop Productions in which she played Casca. She has also taken regular voice roles in animated television series and films. Her best-known screen part is Morgan Dungworth, the prison warden in the web series Pink Is In. Four times a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee, she was recognized for Strange Little Monsters, The Destruction of Eve, The Emotionalists and Age of Arousal. In 1997 she earned a Gemini Award nomination for the Spoken Art monologue One Last Look in the Mirror by Glen Sorestad, and in 2024 she was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Pink Is In.