Karen Robinson
Biography
Karen Robinson is a Canadian actress who was born in England, grew up in Jamaica, and moved to Drumheller, Alberta as a teenager before studying communication and theater at Mount Royal College in Calgary and turning professional in the early 1990s. She built a stage career in Canada, originating the part of Marie-Joseph Angélique in Lorena Gale's Angélique in 1998, playing Prospera in The Tempest in 2009, and winning an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Doubt. On screen she has appeared in Lars and the Real Girl (2007) and in television roles including Ronnie Lee in Schitt's Creek, Mildred Clarke in Frankie Drake Mysteries and Cassandra Shaw in the Morning Show Mysteries. She won a Canadian Screen Award in 2019 for her guest role on Mary Kills People.
58years old
Turns 59 on February 28in 138 days
- Born London
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 25 years1997 to 2022
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A first
In 1998, Robinson was the first to play Marie-Joseph Angélique in Lorena Gale's play Angélique, a performance that brought her a Betty Mitchell Award nomination for Best Actress that same year.
Beyond film
The following year, Robinson took the part of Clytemnestra in three plays running at the same time: Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Jean Giraudoux's Electra and Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies.
Beyond film
In 2009, Robinson took the role of Prospera in a Dream in High Park staging of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, where the gender of the character was flipped.
Karen Robinson movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Kevin Fair directed four of these films. Six actors appear in five of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
David Lewis's page
Jesse Moss's page
Anna Van Hooft's page
David Paetkau's page
Rick Fox's page
Holly Robinson Peete's page
Kevin FairDirector, 4 films, 2018 to 2019
All films by Kevin Fair
Awards
Two awards and honors from 2019 to 2021, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAG Awards | |||
| 2021 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | Won | |
| Other honors | |||
| 2019 | Canadian Screen Awards | Mary Kills People, season 2 | Won |
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.