# Christine Willes

Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper. She is also known for her role as Granny Goodness on the CW series Smallville.

## Career

Willes played the recurring role of Agent Karen E. Kosseff, a government counselor, on the TV show The X-Files. She also appears in a minor recurring role on the show Reaper on The CW, as Gladys, a demon from Hell who works in the DMV. She was nominated in the 2009 Leo Awards in the category of Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for that role. Like her Dead Like Me co-star Callum Blue, she was cast as the villain Granny Goodness on The CW's Smallville's tenth and final season (Blue appeared in the previous season as Zod). She also had a small role in the award-winning film Trick r Treat starring Anna Paquin, which also featured another Dead Like Me co-star, Britt McKillip. She also played Vera Kane on CW series the 100.
Christine appeared as Madam Lazar in Catherine Hardwicke's production of Red Riding Hood.
She has won three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, and both produced and starred in Jasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man. She directed Metamorphoses at Pacific Theatre in August 2008, and played Clara Epp in Touchstone Theatre's 2010 World Premiere of Sally Stubb's Herr Beckmann's People.
Willes had a recurring role as Patty Deckler in the third series of the drama series Mistresses in 2015.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1996 | Big Bully | Teacher - 1970 |
| 1998 | I'll Be Home for Christmas | Race Official |
| 2000 | MVP: Most Valuable Primate | Lady #2 |
| 2002 | Bang Bang You're Dead | Sandwich Woman |
| 2004 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Arlene Sheehy |
| 2006 | The Wicker Man | Sister Violet |
| 2007 | Trick 'r Treat | Mrs. Henderson |
| 2009 | Dead like Me: Life After Death | Delores Herbig |
| 2011 | Red Riding Hood | Madame Lazar |
| 2011 | Sucker Punch | Reception Nurse / Designer |
| 2013 | Horns | Receptionist |
| 2013 | Lawrence & Holloman | Holloman's Mother |
| 2014 | Kid Cannabis | Female Border Guard |
| 2014 | If I Stay | Nurse Davis |
| 2014 | Two 4 One | Dr. Sharp |
| 2014 | Feed the Gods | Baba |
| 2014 | Mountain Men | Marion Pollard |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | WSU Grad Speaker / Reader |
| 2015 | The Driftless Area | Concerned Woman |
| 2018 | The Professor | Widow #1 |
| 2019 | A Dog's Way Home | Leslie |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1989 | 21 Jump Street | Nurse | Episode: "Woolly Bullies" |
| 1992 | Shame | Claire | Television film |
| 1992 | Child of Rage | Teacher | Television film |
| 1994 | Moment of Truth: To Walk Again | Balboa nurse | Television film |
| 1995 | Serving in Silence | Col. Angela Webber | Television film |
| 1995–2016 | The X-Files | Karen Kosseff / Sister Mary | 4 episodes |
| 1996 | A Kidnapping in the Family | Ellen | Television film |
| 1996 | For Hope | Nurse Start | Television film |
| 1997 | The Outer Limits | Nurse Yvette | Episode: "Dark Rain" |
| 1997 | Dad's Week Off | Alice | Television film |
| 1998 | Outrage | Judge | Television film |
| 1997 | Cupid | Doctor #1 | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1998–1999 | Mercy Point | Nurse Molly Tobitt | 7 episodes |
| 1998–1999 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Mrs. Gotteramerding | 5 episodes |
| 1999 | Silver Wolf | Mrs. Gates | Television film |
| 1999 | Hope Island | Mrs. Salvo | Episode: "It Takes a Voyage to Learn" |
| 2000 | Runaway Virus | Tall Woman | Television film |
| 2000 | Sole Survivor | Mercy Ealing | Television film |
| 2001 | So Weird | Waitress | Episode: "The Muse" |
| 2002 | Dark Angel | Church Lady | Episode: "Freak Nation" |
| 2003–2004 | Dead Like Me | Delores Herbig | 26 episodes |
| 2004 | Kingdom Hospital | Emma Warburton | Episode: "The West Side of Midnight" |
| 2004 | The Book of Ruth | DeeDee | Television film |
| 2005 | FBI: Negotiator | Mrs. Branch | Television film |
| 2006 | A Little Thing Called Murder | Loretta | Television film |
| 2006 | Psych | Ms. Foote | Episode: "Spellingg Bee" |
| 2006 | Four Extraordinary Women | Dr. Warner | Television film |
| 2006 | To Have and to Hold | McNary | Television film |
| 2007 | Passion's Web | DA Lockwood | Television film |
| 2007 | Write & Wrong | Marty's Assistant | Television film |
| 2007 | Flash Gordon | Edie Atkins | Episode: "Life Source" |
| 2007 | Snowglobe | Joy | Television film |
| 2007–2009 | Reaper | Gladys | 15 episodes |
| 2008 | Nightmare at the End of the Hall | Robin | Television film |
| 2009 | Defying Gravity | Dr. Greer | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | The Good Wife | Laine | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2009 | Sorority Wars | Mary Lee Snow | Television film |
| 2010–2011 | Smallville | Granny Goodness | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | To the Mat | Cecile Slocum | Television film |
| 2011 | Possessing Piper Rose | Ruth | Television film |
| 2011 | InSecurity | Alex's Mother | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | The Factory | Realtor | Television film |
| 2012 | The 12 Disasters of Christmas | Miriam | Television film |
| 2012–2013 | Emily Owens, M.D. | E.R. Nurse | 8 episodes |
| 2014 | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | Vivian Lasseter | Episode: "Time to Start Livin'" |
| 2014 | The 100 | Vera Kane | 3 episodes |
| 2014 | Zapped | Principal Mumford | Television film |
| 2014 | The Christmas Secret | Gloria | Television film |
| 2014 | Til Death Do Us Part | Liz | Television film |
| 2015 | I Do, I Do, I Do | Margaret Lorenzo | Television film |
| 2015 | The Returned | Loretta Russo | 3 episodes |
| 2015 | Mistresses | Patty Deckler | 7 episodes |
| 2015 | Supernatural | Jenna's Grandmother | Episode: "Form and Void" |
| 2015–2017 | The Gourmet Detective | Doris | 4 episodes |
| 2016 | Heartbeat | Mrs. Rothberg | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2016 | Summer Love | Eleanor | Television film |
| 2016 | Aftermath | The Nurse | Episode: "Hieronymo's Mad Againe" |
| 2017 | You Me Her | Rita Seaver | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | The Good Doctor | Judge Vicki Spain | Episode: "36 Hours" |
| 2018 | Christmas Pen Pals | Martha | Television film |
| 2019 | Michelle's | Tea Woman | Episode: "A Queen's Cowboy" |
| 2019 | The Last Bridesmaid | Grandma Raye | Television film |
| 2020 | Martha's Vineyard Mysteries | Judy | Episode: "A Beautiful Place to Die" |
| 2020 | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Elaine Kosgrove | Episode: "The Returned" |
| 2021 | Turner & Hooch | Senator Helen Pine | Episode: "To Serve and Pawtect" |
| 2021 | Family Law | Carole Creedy | Episode: "Blame It On The Mother" |
| 2021 | Legends of Tomorrow | Eleanor Roosevelt | Episode: "A Woman's Place Is in the War Effort!" |
| 2022 | The Wedding Veil | Hilda | Television film |
| 2022 | Upload | Janet Boxner | Episode: "The Outing" |
| 2023 | Superman & Lois | Governor Kerry Wexler | Episode: "Collision Course" |