Canadian Comedian and Actress who is involved in social activism and made her feature directorial debut with the 2007 movie Young Triffie.
She studied theatre at her university, but dropped out to work with a traveling comedy group.
She is a sufferer of macular degeneration and she was an occasional spokesperson at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
She married professor Don Nichol in 2002 and had a son with him in 1989.
She was in a television show with Rick Mercer.
