Jackie
Burroughs
playing Fay Vaughn about Lost and Delirious:
“The
film is about that strange loyalty between girls, where it takes them, and
that passion and idealism of adolescence, that time when everything is so
intense and seems to matter so much”, elaborates Jackie Burroughs, who plays
Fay Vaughn, the school’s headmistress. Jackie Burroughs about Léa Pool: “Lea
is a genuine auteur and to be part or her perception of the world is exciting.”
Highly
acclaimed Canadian actress Jackie Burroughs has graced the stages of prestigious
Shaw and Stratford Theatre Festivals and was a member of the Missouri Repertory
Theatre. She appeared in the Royal Alexandra Productions of Uncle Vanya
and Present Laughter with Peter O´Toole.
Her
television appearances are numerous. She won an ACTRA Award in 1970 for the
CBC production Vicki, playing the lead role. In 1973 her performance
in Twelve and a Half Cents garnered her an Etrog Award. She won two
Geminis for Best Performance by an Actress (in 1992 and 1994) and was nominated
for a third (in 1995) for her work as Aunt Hetty in the longrunning series, Road to Avonlea. She was nominated for Best
Supporting Actress Gemini for her portrayal of Mother Mucca in Armistead
Maupin’s More Tales of the City in 1999. Her other credits include
Cover Me, Evidence of Blood, Lonesome Dove, Twilight Zone, and Anne
of Green Gables.
Burroughs’
film career is also distinguished. In 1972 she won the Yorktown Film Award
for Best Actress for the lead role in If Wishes Were Horses. She took
back-to-back Genie Awards for best Supporting Actress in 1983 (for The
Wars) and 1984 (for The Grey Fox). In 1988 she was honoured with
a Best Actress Genie and the Best Actress Award from the Creteuil Woman’s
Film Festival (France) for Winter Tan, which she also co-directed.
Among her other film credits are Washed Up, writer/director Don McKellar’s
highly regarded Last Night, Elvis Meets Nixon, John and the Missus,
and David Cronenberg’s Dead Zone.