For four decades, Jackie Burroughs (known to her inner circle as "Jackie B") has left her mark on both stage and screen. Born in Lancashire, England, she moved to Canada at the age of twelve, where she would eventually launch her long, ongoing career. She has won two Canadian Film Awards (the predecessor to the Geminis and Genies), has been nominated for eight Geminis (winning four of them--three for her work on Road to Avonlea), eight Genies (winning three of those), and was awarded the Gemini's Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement in 2001.

Her earliest film was The Purse in 1966, and from there she did not stop. Her range stretched, the accolades came, and she became more dynamic, more feisty, more energetic...and at times, more daring. From her larger roles in The Grey Fox (1982), on-stage in a 1976 Stratford production of The Merchant of Venice, and even as Avonlea's own matriarch Aunt Hetty; to her smaller, supporting roles in The Wars, Willard, A Guy Thing (opposite Julia Styles), and The Republic of Love; to even her notable cameos in Don McKellar's film Last Night (she played the runner) and in Anne of Green Gables as Mrs. Amelia Evans; and to her various guest appearances on other TV series (most recently as method actress Helga Lemper on Made in Canada), Jackie has proven herself time and time again. Her other biggest project to date is 1989's A Winter Tan, a collaborative effort which earned her four Genie nominations: acting (which she won), writing (she helped adapt the screenplay herself), directing, and in the Best Picture category as a co-producer. In 2002, she won a Gemini for her role in the miniseries Armistead Maupin's Further Tales of the City. These days, she has held supporting and minor roles in various features like The Limb Salesman, Going the Distance, and Willard, and also played Peter Keleghan's character's eccentric mother in the CBC comedy pilot Walter Ego.

Jackie currently divides her time between Toronto and her house in Mexico--"the house that Kevin Sullivan built," as she says. She was once married to the late Zal Yanovsky from The Lovin' Spoonful, but remained good friends with him afterward until his death in 2002, and has a daughter from that marriage.

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