Karen LeBlanc
Karen LeBlanc is a Canadian film, television and musical theatre actress. Early life. LeBlanc grew up in Tottenham, Ontario to family from Nova Scotia. She attended the musical theatre program at Sheridan College. Career. Starting with a minor role in the 1992 television movie "Split Images", LeBlanc's credits include guest appearances in television series including "Trailer Park Boys", "Producing Parker", "Soul Food", "Mutant X", and most notable "The Playboy Club" (2011) playing Tina Turner and singing two of Turner's signature songs, "Shake a Tail Feather" and "I Want to Be Made Over". As regular, she first  starred in the final season of the CBC sitcom "Material World" from 1992 to 1993. She appeared in 2000 fantasy-comedy film "Santa Who?" starring Leslie Nielsen. She co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies, including "Snap Decision" (2001), "Guilt by Association" (2002), "Lucky Day" (2002), "" (2005), "Knights of the South Bronx" (2005), and "" (2012). On stage, she has appeared in productions of "Outrageous!", "Rent". and "Cinderella". She has also performed as a backing vocalist for Chaka Khan, Rik Emmett and Glass Tiger. LeBlanc starred in the short-lived the CW drama series "Runaway" in 2006. For  her recurring role in "ReGenesis", she was nominated for Gemini Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series in 2008. In 2009, LeBlanc received positive reviews and Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance in the drama film "Nurse.Fighter.Boy". Her other film credits include "Make It Happen" (2008) and "Dolan's Cadillac" (2009). Also that year, she starred in the ABC drama series, "Defying Gravity". Her other series regular credits including "Soul" (2009), "Shattered" (2010–11), "Cracked" (2013), "Insomnia" (2018), "Frontier" (2017–18), and "Ransom" (2018-19). She also had a recurring  roles in "Motive", "Trailer Park Boys " and "Killjoys". As regular, LeBlanc starred on the second season of Peacock series "Departure" in 2021, and in 2022 starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera "The Kings of Napa". She was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Lead Performance in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for the web series "For the Record".