Seana McKenna

Seana McKenna is a Canadian actress known above all for her stage work, much of it at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Born in Toronto, she trained at Canada's National Theatre School, where her student parts included Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest and Isabella in Women Beware Women. Across 36 years at Stratford she has played more than 40 roles, and since the 2000s she has often been cast as strong-willed women. In 2013, her 26th season there, her roles included Queen Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, and in 2024 she directed Twelfth Night. She has also led productions for theater companies throughout Canada, among them Antony and Cleopatra, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pygmalion, Medea, Hedda Gabler and Wit. Her screen work includes The Hanging Garden (1997), which earned her a Genie Award for best supporting actress.