Catherine Disher


Catherine Wilder Disher is a British-born Canadian actress and comedian. She has won two Gemini Awards: in 2005 for Best Actress for her role in the Canadian mini-series Snakes and Ladders, and in 2010 for her role in The Border. She was also nominated for her role as Dr. Natalie Lambert in the Forever Knight TV series.
She is probably best known for her role as Jill Valentine in video game and in the Good Witch TV series and movies, portraying Martha Tinsdale, the mayor of Middleton.

Career

Disher graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1978 and later from the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal.
She had a supporting role on T. and T., the legal/action series starring Mr. T, and had another supporting role in the second season of the War of the Worlds series. She starred in Forever Knight from 1992 to 1996, and provided the voice of Jean Grey on the ' animated series from 1992 to 1997. She played Maggie Norton on the Canadian television series The Border from 2008 to 2010 and provides additional voices on the PBS Kids/CBC Kids series Super WHY!.
Apart from her work as an actor, Disher has done voice work for animated series and video games, such as ' and Sailor Moon. She also wrote one episode of the British-Canadian-Midwestern-French drama series The Campbells.
Disher played Martha Tinsdale in a series of made-for-TV movie about The Good Witch, and has continued the role on the television series Good Witch.

Personal life

She was formerly married to her X-Men co-star Cedric Smith, 17 years her senior, with whom she had a son, Darcy Montgomery Smith, in 1993.

Filmography

Live action

Film

Television