Fiona Reid (born 24 July 1951) is an award-winning English-born Canadian television, film, and stage actress who has appeared in lots of movies, TV shows, stage plays, and cartoons.
Fiona Reid has been acting since the 70s, but she is best known for playing Larry Kiing's wife Cathy on CBC's 1975 sitcom King of Kensington (until she left after Season 3, leading to the characters getting divorced in the show) and Ian Miller's mother Harriet in the 2002 romantic-comedy film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She's also done a bit of voice acting, notably in a few Nelvana cartoons, such as 2000's Timothy Goes to School (as Timothy's teacher Mrs. Jenkins) and 2003's Jacob Two-Two (as Jacob's teacher Miss Sourpickle).
Outside of television, Fioa Reid has an extensive career in theater, having performed at such esteemed Canadian stage festivals as Straford Shakespeare Festival and the Shaw Festival, as well as at several British and American theatres. In this area, she has won many awards for widely recognized roles as Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, and Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Filmography
Film
- Blood & Donuts as Rita
- Bonus as A Schoolteacher
- Breakfast with Scot as Mildred Monterossos
- If Looks Could Kill as Marge
- Luck as A Mom
- Mike And Honey as Sandy Wineberg
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding as Harriet Miller
- A New Life 1988 as Sylvia
- One Week as Mary Tyler
- Switching Channels as Pamela Farbrother
- The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) as Lucille Abshire
- Trouble In The Garden as Lillian
Live-Action TV
- Blue Murder as Margaret Carlyle (1 episode)
- Bomb Girls as Mrs. Beaverton (1 episode)
- Chateau Laurier as Mrs. Bracebridge (1 episode)
- Coming Up Rosie as Mona Swicker
- Doc as Elizabeth (1 episode)
- For The Record as Trish Baldwin and Mona (2 episodes)
- Friday the 13th: The Series as Dr. Cynthia Galen and Vera Anderson (2 episodes)
- Goosebumps (1995) as Jeff's Mom (1 episode)
- Hangin In as Maggie
- Haven as Piper Taylor (1 episode)
- I Was A Rat as Judge Myopia Scorn
- Kevin Hill as Helen Walker (1 episode)
- King of Kensington as Cathy King
- Men With Brooms as Gary's Mother (1 episode)
- The Noddy Shop as Mrs. Tubby Bear, Mrs. Noah, and Charlene Von Pickings
- PR as Deidre Duncan
- The Professionals as A Young Girl (1 episode)
- Puppets Who Kill as A Doctor (1 episode)
- The Red Green Show as Judge Hanson
- Road to Avonlea as Maude Craig (2 episodes)
- Screen Two as Abigail (1 episode)
- Seeing Things as Teresa Rogers (1 episode)
- Single White Spenny as Ellie (1 episode)
- Street Legal as Alice Stevens (2 episodes)
- This is Wonderland as Mrs. Gleason (1 episode)
- Twice in a Lifetime as Mama Harper and Head Nurse Fike (2 episodes)
Western Animation
- Bravest Warriors as Slippy Napkins (season four)
- The Dumb Bunnies as Mrs. Thump (1 episode)
- Henry's World as Doris, Ms. Pierre, and Mrs. Wiggins
- Jacob Two-Two as Miss Sourpickle
- Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse as Diamonds the Elephant
- Pearlie as Great Aunt Garnet
- Redwall as Sister May
- Stōked as Rosie
- Timothy Goes to School as Mrs. Jenkins
