Kate Lynch (born June 29, 1959) is a Canadian actor, drama teacher, theatre director and playwright.
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In 1980 she won the Genie Award for Best Actress for Meatballs. She was noted for strong performance as a romantic foil to Bill Murray. However, in her acceptance speech, she communicated the belief that she had won the award more for being a Canadian actor in a popular film, at a time when Canadian films still predominantly cast bigger-name stars from the United States, than for her actual performance.
She was nominated for the same award in 1988 for her role in Taking Care; although she did not win, she told the press that being nominated for that film meant more to her than winning for Meatballs, as by this time the quality of Canadian film had significantly improved and the division of the Genie acting categories into separate awards for Canadian and foreign actors had been discontinued.
Her other film credits include Lie with Me, Soup for One, Def-Con 4, God Bless the Child, and The Guardian, while her television credits include Custard Pie, Anne of Avonlea and guest roles in Adderly, Danger Bay, Seeing Things, Queer as Folk, This Is Wonderland, Lost Girl, and Degrassi: The Next Generation.
As a playwright, her plays include Newcomer, Ten Minute Play: The Musical, The Road to Hell (co-written with Michael Healey), Tales of the Blonde Assassin, and Early August.
As a director, she has directed plays for the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, the Blyth Festival, and Theatre Passe Muraille, including productions of William Shakespeare's Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, and Cymbeline, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Terence Rattigan's French Without Tears, Noël Coward's Star Chamber, Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and Michael Healey's The Nuttalls.
She has taught for University of Toronto, the Shaw Festival, the Stratford Festival, George Brown College, and Ryerson University.