Janet Wright
Biography
Janet Wright was an English-born Canadian actress and theater director who gained her widest recognition as Emma Leroy on the sitcom Corner Gas. Born in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, she helped start a Saskatoon theater company, Persephone, in 1974. At the Vancouver Arts Club Theatre she both acted in and directed more than 40 productions, and she performed at the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Her theater career opened the way to film and television. For Bordertown Cafe she earned a best actress Genie Award in 1992, and in 2003 she took a Gemini Award for supporting actress in Betrayed. She played Emma Leroy from 2004 to 2009 and won a 2006 Canadian Comedy Award for that part. She returned to the role in Corner Gas: The Movie (2014). At Stratford in 2011 she appeared in The Grapes of Wrath, and she directed The Mountaintop and Disgraced in 2015.
71years old at death
- Born England
- Died Vancouver
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 32 years1982 to 2014
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A first
In 1995, Wright became the first woman to take the title role in King Lear, performing it for Canadian Stage in Toronto.
Behind the camera
Wright kept working with the Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, where she directed several contemporary American plays. These included Katori Hall's The Mountaintop and Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced in 2015.
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