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Nonnie Griffin (20 October 1933 – 7 June 2019) was a Canadian film, stage, television and voice actress. She studied at the Toronto Conservatory in her native land, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and even with famed mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Jun 8, 2019 · Toronto actress and playwright Nonnie Griffin has died less than two weeks before debuting a new one-woman show. Close friend Lorraine Heaton says Griffin died Friday morning in hospital of an...
- Education
- Early TV and Radio Career
- Career in England
- Radio Career
- Film and Television Career
- Theatre Career
- Family Connections
Nonnie Griffin attended St. Margaret’s Convent School in Kirkfield, Ontario, and Noranda High School in Noranda, Quebec. She studied speech arts and drama at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
At 16, billed as Margaret Griffin, she performed at the Red Barn Theatre in Jackson’s Point, Ontario. Two years later, she began working with Canadian Repertory Theatre in Ottawa. She appeared with Peterborough Summer Theatre at age 19 and with Toronto’s Jupiter Theatre in the successful 1953 production of Ring Around the Moon at the Royal Alexandr...
In 1957, Griffin appeared in the TV seriesLast of the Mohicans and onstage in The Boyfriend before leaving Canada to work in England. She auditioned successfully at Bristol Old Vic in London for John Hale, who cast her as Luciana in The Comedy of Errors. That production was also featured at the Baalbeck International Festival in Lebanon.
When Griffin returned to Canada in 1961, she was once again featured regularly on CBC Radio. In 1964, she changed her professional name from Margaret Griffin to Nonnie Griffin after she learned of an older American actress who was also named Margaret Griffin. When John Drainie (renowned as the greatest radio actor in the world) was dying in 1966, G...
Griffin also excelled in television, both live and taped. She appeared in Lister Sinclair’s When Soft Voices Die (1956), an episode co-starring Lorne Greene in the Folio series, and the first production of the musical version of Anne of Green Gables (live in 1956 and 1958). She also appeared in the series Alexander Graham Bell (1963), Room to Let (...
Griffin appeared in theatres from New Brunswick to British Columbia, as well as with the summer stock circuit in Ontario. She played Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday (Bastion Theatre, 1974), Widow Quin in The Playboy of the Western World (Centaur Theatre, 1976), Mrs. Rafi in The Sea (Phoenix Theatre, 1977), Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! (Limelight, 1989...
Nonnie Griffin was the great-granddaughter of Sir William Mackenzie, builder of the Canadian Northern Railway.
Nonnie Griffin was born on 22 October 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986), Encounter (1952) and The Believers (1987). She died on 7 June 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Jun 11, 2019 · Toronto actor and playwright Nonnie Griffin has died less than two weeks before she was to stage a new one-woman show. Close friend Lorraine Heaton says Ms. Griffin died last Friday morning in...
Jun 7, 2019 · Toronto actress and playwright Nonnie Griffin has died less than two weeks before debuting a new one-woman show. Close friend Lorraine Heaton says Griffin passed away Friday morning in...
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Nonnie Griffin was born on October 22, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was an actress, known for Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986), Encounter (1952) and Anne of Green Gables (1956).
