Cary Lawrence (actra, caea & uda)

Cary Lawrence was born in Montreal and moved to Ottawa shortly after the October Crisis of 1970. Cary doesn't quite know how she fell into the performing arts other than the fact that both her parents were lovers of the arts. But indeed she did and has never looked back. As the youngest of three older brothers, the notion of play was always solitary but the imagination was always huge. Cary officially became interested in theatre in her high school years spending her lunch hours huddled in a dark theatre room creating spoofs on highschool life. But it was in University where she found her calling. There, Cary performed in a variety of theatrical mediums. After graduating from Bishop's University in 1986, she ventured to Paris, France to further her education in the two year program at Ecole Jacques Lecoq. She returned to Canada in 1990 to make Montreal her home.

Largely a character actor Cary has ulitilized accents in the numerous roles in made for TV movies. Having spent 4 years in France, Cary is completely bilingual and has crossed the linguistic barrier on occasion performing in French features, mini series and tv episodics. She lends her voice to the radio and can be seen in many television adverts. But the theatre remains her passion even if only to visit the stage once yearly.

Cary lives in Montreal with her writer husband and two girls, Paige and Georgia. While the thought of moving to the UK to work (she has the papers) always tickles her fancy, Montreal provides her with a dual market, that being in French and English. Her home away from Montreal is in a tiny village in southwestern Scotland, and if you press her, she might even don that most difficult of accents, the Scottish brogue.