Hilary Farr

Hilary Farr is a British-Canadian television host, designer and businesswoman who also worked as an actress. She started out in Los Angeles renovating homes and designing sets for film and television. Born in Toronto and raised in London, she took occasional minor acting roles, and her most notable film part came in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), as Betty Munroe. She also had small parts in City on Fire (1979) and in The Return (1980). On stage, she played Betty Rizzo and Marty in a London production of Grease opposite Richard Gere. She became the first co-host and designer signed for Love It or List It, working with Big Coat Productions; the show first aired on Canada's W Network in 2008 and later moved to HGTV in 2011. She left that series in 2023, and in 2017 she helped start Rules of Renovation, which offers real estate investment seminars.