Linda Griffiths

Early life Griffiths was born in Montreal, Quebec. Following her studies at St. Thomas High School in Pointe Claire, she attended Dawson College, then The National Theatre School (for one year), and finally McGill University. She is best known for her 1980 one-woman play Maggie and Pierre, cowritten with Paul Thompson, in which she played both Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau as well as a fictional journalist named Henry. and the Gemini Award for Actress in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series at the 2nd Gemini Awards in 1987 for The Marriage Bed.

In 1994 she starred alongside Alan Williams in The Darling Family, Alan Zweig's film adaptation of her own theatrical play.

In 1997, she formed her own company Duchess Productions, which produced a tour of Alien Creature, as well as developing and associate-producing The Duchess, Alien Creature, Chronic, and her last play, Age of Arousal.

While public records gave her birth year as 1956, CBC quoted her friend and caretaker, Layne Coleman, as saying her actual birthdate was 7 October 1953.

Plays Maggie & Pierre (1980; with Paul Thompson) O.D. on Paradise (1982) Jessica (1986; with Maria Campbell) The Darling Family (1991) A Game of Inches (1991) Brother André's Heart (1992) Spiral Women and the Dirty Theatre (1993) The Duchess a.k.a. Wallis Simpson (1997) Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen (1999) Chronic (2003) Baby Finger (2005) Age of Arousal (2007) The Last Dog of War (2010) Heaven Above, Heaven Below (2013)