# Kate Hennig

Kate Hennig is a Canadian actress and playwright, currently the associate artistic director of the Shaw Festival.

## Early life and education

Hennig was born in Harlow, Ontario near London. Her father was a Lutheran minister. She and her family moved to Edmonton when Hennig was 7. Hennig attended York University briefly before dropping out.
In 2002, Hennig was awarded a master's degree from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

## Career

She was a shortlisted Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actress in a Play (Large Theatre) in 2003 for The Danish Play, and won the Dora for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 for Billy Elliot. Although predominantly a stage actress, she also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, and has appeared in the films Mrs. Winterbourne and The Claim, and the television series Bomb Girls, Saving Hope and L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables.
As a playwright, she has written the plays The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, and Mother's Daughter. She was nominated for Outstanding New Play at the 2017 Dora Mavor Moore Awards and shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for The Virgin Trial.
In 2019, Hennig directed Holiday Inn at the Shaw Festival.

## Personal life

Hennig married and later divorced Ian Prinsloo. She moved back Toronto from Calgary in 2001, after her run as Sally Bowles in Cabaret ended.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1993 | Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould | Chambermaid |
| 1996 | Mrs. Winterbourne | Sophie |
| 2000 | The Claim | Vauneen |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | The Taming of the Shrew | Widow | TV film |
| 1989 | The Comedy of Errors | Luce | TV film |
| 1994 | The Babymaker: The Dr. Cecil Jacobson Story | Nurse | TV film |
| 1995 | Heritage Minutes | Mrs. Chmiliar | Episode: "Myrnam Hospital" |
| 1996 | Lives of Girls & Women | Fern Doherty | TV film |
| 1996 | Losing Chase | Katherine | TV film |
| 1996 | Talk to Me | Stacy | TV film |
| 1997 | When Secrets Kill | Mary Martin | TV film |
| 1998 | Goosebumps | Crystal's Mom | Episodes: "Cry of the Cat: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 1999 | Murder in a Small Town | Mary | TV film |
| 2000 | A Taste of Shakespeare | Puck | Episode: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| 2003 | Jasper, Texas | White Mother | TV film |
| 2009 | Flashpoint | Brenda | Episode: "Remote Control" |
| 2012–2013 | Bomb Girls | Adele Witham | Recurring role |
| 2015 | Saving Hope | Margot Kay | Episode: "All Down the Line" |
| 2016 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables | Rachel Lynde | TV film |
| 2017 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars | Rachel Lynde | TV film |
| 2017 | L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew | Rachel Lynde | TV film |

### Theatre

| Year | Title | Role(s) | Company/Theatre | Notes |
| 1988 | Taming of the Shrew | Widow | Stratford Festival | |
| 1991 | Carousel | Mrs. Mullins | Stratford Festival | |
| 1991 | Hamlet | Player Queen | Stratford Festival | |
| 1993 | Ratbag | | Stratford Festival | Dora Award-winning performance |
| 2001 | Cabaret | Sally Bowles | Theatre Calgary | |
| 2003 | The Danish Play | Agnete Ottosen | Nightwood Theatre | Dora Award-winning performance |
| 2003 | Last Romantics | | Necessary Angel | |
| 2003 | The Good Life | | Necessary Angel | Staged reading |
| 2007 | The Penelopiad | | National Arts Centre | |
| 2007 | White Christmas | Martha Watson | Sony Centre | |
| 2008 | Anyone Can Whistle | | | |
| 2008 | Blue Note | | Nightswimming | |
| 2009 | Billy Elliot | Mrs. Wilkinson | Broadway | |
| 2011 | Billy Elliot | Mrs. Wilkinson | Mirvish Productions | Dora Award-winning performance |
| 2012 | A Man and Some Women | Rose | Shaw Festival | |
| 2013 | Romeo and Juliet | Nurse | Stratford Festival | |
| 2013 | Fiddler on the Roof | Golde | Stratford Festival | |
| 2014 | A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur | Bodey | Shaw Festival | |
| 2014 | Rifles | Señora Carrar | Praxis/Next Stage | |
| 2015 | Little Death | Claire | Koffler Centre/Why Not Theatre/Riser Project | |
| 2016 | Breath of Kings | Mistress Quickly and Gower | Stratford Festival | |
| 2016 | Hedda Gabler | Julia | | |
| 2017 | The Audience | Margaret Thatcher | Mirvish/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre | |
| 2019 | A Doll's House, Part 2 | Anne-Marie | Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre | |
| 2022 | The Importance of Being Ernest | Lady Bracknell | Shaw Festival | |
| 2022 | Gaslight (adapted from Angel Street) | Elizabeth | Stratford Festival | |
| 2023 | Gypsy | Momma Rose | Shaw Festival | |

## Plays

* The Eleventh David
* More
* Waterworks, later titled Drowning Out of Water
* The Queenmaker Trilogy:
** The Last Wife
** The Virgin Trial
** Mother’s Daughter
* Cyrano de Bergerac (translation and adaptation)
* Wilde Tales