Wendy Crewson


Wendy Jane Crewson is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film The Doctor.
Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, including The Good Son, The Santa Clause and its sequels The Santa Clause 2 and , as well as Air Force One, Bicentennial Man, What Lies Beneath, The 6th Day, and Eight Below. She also starred in a number of independent movies, such as Better Than Chocolate, Suddenly Naked, Perfect Pie, Away from Her and Room.
Crewson has won six Gemini Awards and two Canadian Screen Awards for her performances on television. She played leading roles in a number of television films, include playing Joanne Kilbourn in six movies based on novels by Gail Bowen. She had recurring roles on American television series 24 and Revenge, and from 2012 to 2017 co-starred in the CTV medical drama Saving Hope.

Career

Crewson appeared in many Canadian TV shows in 1980s and in a number of feature films in the early 1990s, like Night Heat, Hard Copy, Tanner '88 and Street Legal.
In 1991, Crewson appeared in her first breakthrough role in the feature film The Doctor and, in later years, appeared in films, such as The Good Son ; The Santa Clause and its two sequels, The Santa Clause 2 and , as Tim Allen's ex-wife/mother of Eric Lloyd's character; To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday as Peter Gallagher's unfortunate blind date; and Air Force One as Grace Marshall, First Lady to President James Marshall.
Crewson co-starred in the science fiction films Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams and The 6th Day opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has performed numerous other roles including an invasive television newscaster in Room.
On television, Crewson starred in the Canadian series ReGenesis as Dr. Rachel Woods and on Saving Hope as Dr. Dana Kinny. She also guest-starred in the first eight episodes of the third season of 24, playing Dr. Anne Packard, personal physician and love interest to the President.
She also appeared in the second season of ABC's primetime soap opera Revenge. In 2016, Crewson had a main role in the television series Slasher.
In 2017, Crewson began appearances in some episodes of the CBC drama Frankie Drake Mysteries, playing the lead character's mother and assisting her in investigations. In 2020, she starred in the Netflix horror series October Faction.

Awards

In 2013, Crewson won a Canadian Screen Award for her work on the television series Saving Hope.
In 2016, she received the Earle Grey Award, which recognizes actors for their contributions to the international profile of Canadian TV or for their significant body of work.

Personal life

Crewson was born in Hamilton, Ontario, the daughter of June Doreen and Robert Binnie Crewson. She attended John Rennie High School in Pointe Claire, Québec, as did her younger brother, Brad Crewson.
She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she won the Lorne Greene Award for outstanding work in the theater. She then studied at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
She married actor Michael Murphy in 1988, and they have two children. They divorced in January 2009.
In December 2014, she revealed to the press that she came out to her family as a lesbian several years earlier.
Crewson resides in Rosedale, Toronto.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations