Luba Goy

Luba Goy is a Canadian actress and comedian known for her work on Royal Canadian Air Farce. Born in Haltern, Germany, and raised in Ottawa after her family moved to Canada in 1951, she trained at the National Theatre School of Canada and appeared in theater productions in Stratford, Ontario. In 1971 she joined The Jest Society, the comedy troupe that became Royal Canadian Air Farce two years later. During the early 1980s she played herself in Bits and Bytes, a TVOntario computer series broadcast on PBS stations. She later voiced several Care Bears characters for Nelvana, including Lotsa Heart Elephant. Her film work includes the Ukrainian feature Vid'ma (Witch), in which she played an 18th-century innkeeper. With Air Farce, she won 15 ACTRA awards and a Juno, and in 1998 she shared a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for lifetime achievement.