Rosemary Dunsmore is one of Canada’s most respected award-winning actresses. She is a popular acting instructor and a gifted actor’s director. Rosemary’s career has taken her onto stages and film and television screens across Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2009 she was given the ACTRA Award for Best Actress in recognition of her work in The Baby Formula (written and directed by WIDC alumna Alison Reid). She began her career on stages across Canada playing leads in Stratford for two seasons and Canadian premieres of shows like Sam Shepherd’s Buried Child and Marsha Norman’s Getting Out.
Rosemary’s first major television appearance in CBC’s Blind Faith won her the Earl Grey Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role. Her frequent television appearances have garnered her four Gemini nominations. She is probably best known for her role as “Katherine Brooke”in Anne Of Green Gables-The Sequel, and the title role in the CBC series MOM P.I., and her recurring role on Bell Media’s hit sci-fi clone series, Orphan Black.
She has split her time between Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto. While in LA she appeared in many TV series and movies of the week. Some favourite roles were in Total Recall, Twins, The Interrogation of Michael Crowe, Dreamcatcher and Citizen Duane.
Rosemary is also a sought after theatre director. Some of the plays she has directed are Hockey Mom Hockey Dad, Measure for Measure, Dinner With Friends.
Rosemary teaches working with actors master classes at Women In the Director’s Chair (WIDC), Equity Showcase, the National Theatre School, University of Toronto, S.I.F.T., George Brown College, Film Training Manitoba and Halifax Shortworks. She is listed in Who’s Who in Canada and in 1990 was included on Maclean’s Magazine’s Honour Roll as a “Canadian who makes a difference”