Seana McKenna
Seana McKenna (born 15 August 1956) is a Canadian actress primarily associated with stage roles at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Background. Seana McKenna was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, where as a student she played Gwendolen in "The Importance of Being Earnest" and Isabella in "Women Beware Women" by Thomas Middleton. Stratford Shakespeare Festival. McKenna has played over 40 stage roles over the course of 23 years at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and major ones from very early on, specializing since the 2000s in strong-willed women  but also mesmerizing as an actress looking very different from one role to another. 2013 was her 22nd season: She played Queen Elizabeth I in Friedrich Schiller's "Mary Stuart" directed by Antoni Cimolino and Madame Arcati in Noël Coward's "Blithe Spirit" directed by Brian Bedford. Roles in other companies. She has also played leading roles in many other major houses across Canada, including the title role in "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare (Centaur Theatre), Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams (Grand Theatre, London), "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the  Universe" by Jane Wagner (Belfry Theatre, Neptune Theatre, National Arts Centre, Manitoba Theatre Centre/MTC), Blanche Dubois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams (Theatre New Brunswick), Eliza Dollitle in "Pygmalion" and the title role in "Candida" by George Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival), "Medea" by Euripides and "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen (MTC), Blanche Dubois again at MTC, "Wit" by Margaret Edson at the Canadian Stage Company, "Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and Royal Alexandra Theatre, "" by John Patrick Shanley at the Canadian Stage Company, "Phèdre" by Jean Racine (American Conservatory Theater), and "The  Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion (Belfry Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, and National Arts Centre). Films and TV. Mckenna has also acted in a few films and television, including the 1997 film "The Hanging Garden", in which she won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well at filmed Stratford productions: Twelfth Night (1986, King John (2015), and Hamlet (2016) Home life. She married director Miles Potter, and they have one son, Callan, born in 1998.