Martha Gibson

Birth : 1939-01-14, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martha Gibson (born January 14, 1939) is a Canadian actress. She is probably best known for appearing alongside her husband Louis Del Grande in the television series Seeing Things, for which she earned a Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series in 1986. She was nominated in the same category for the same show in 1987, but lost to Dinah Christie. Gibson also appeared in other notable roles in Black Christmas (1974), Outrageous! (1977) and Murder by Phone (1982), and television series such as King of Kensington (to which she also contributed as a writer), Katts and Dog and Sweating Bullets.

Profile

Movies

Old Woman

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

The Second Time Around

Alice

Seniors unexpectedly fall for each other over a shared love of music.

A Song for the Season

Donna

A superintendent (Gerald McRaney), trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher (Naomi Judd) whose music program he must cut.

After Alice

Mrs. Lurie

A washed-up detective discovers his own psychic ability when assigned to investigate a serial murder case. The killer has a deranged obsession with the novel "Alice in Wonderland." As the psychopath's bloody reign of terror continues, the cop spirals deeper and deeper into the case where the horrors of the past and present come together.

Family of strangers

Sue

Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted and, later, that her conception was the product of a rape.

The Marriage Bed

June Williamson

Linda Griffiths stars as very pregnant Annie Graham, who's about to give birth to her third child in seven years. Annie looks back via flashbacks at how her own plans for a career got sidetracked and how her marriage suddenly went off the rails on a crazy train. At the same time she's trying to cope with a Christmas season full of inlaws, family and neighbours.. and a husband who's gone awol in order to 'find himself'.

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Script Girl

This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

The Song of the Shirt

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.

Outrageous!

Nurse Carr

Gay hair stylist Robin Turner does a lot of work for drag queens, all the while dreaming that he'll someday find the courage to perform in drag himself. When his schizophrenic friend, Liza, turns up looking for a place to stay, the two form an increasingly tight bond, Robin helping Liza through an unplanned pregnancy and Liza pushing Robin to develop a successful nightclub act.

Black Christmas

Mrs. Quaife

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger who leaves them threatening phone calls.

Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird

Aunt Margery

In the 1950s, a teenage boy struggles as his happy family is broken apart when the father he idolizes develops cancer.