Ramona Pringle

Toronto-born Ramona Pringle is a Canadian actress, digital journalist, television host, multiplatform media producer, and professor. After playing Heidi in international Ricola commercials, she became widely known as the Ricola Girl. As an actress she has appeared alongside Clive Owen, Anjelica Huston, Ron Howard, Andie MacDowell, Paul Giamatti, Justin Timberlake, and Russell Crowe, and her credits include New Line Cinema's Shoot 'Em Up (2007). She has hosted the CBC Television teen program The X and been a recurring webcast host for Idea City. Pringle runs a production company focused on multiplatform content and produced Avatar Secrets, an interactive documentary for TVO. She also worked on the PBS Frontline project Digital Nation with Douglas Rushkoff. Educated at York University and NYU, she taught film and acting before joining Toronto Metropolitan University, where she teaches new media and directs its Transmedia Zone. Playback magazine named her one of its 10 to Watch for 2013.