 LALLY
CADEAU as Janet King and ZACHARY BENNETT as Felix
King
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Mrs. Janet Mary Ward King: (b. October 17, 1868) Janet King is Alec King's wife. She
is enthusiastic, energetic, and passionate. Like Alec, she dotes on her children
(especially Felix) and worries about them like any good mother. She is a
capable homemaker and prides herself on her household skills. She is often
sad because her children are growing up so fast and she wants them to be
her babies forever. She hasn't had much education, but she has knowledge
of experience. She can be silly at times and she is very talkative and outgoing.
It is very important to her to be useful and helpful. She is plump and
friendly-faced with light hair and a warm, ruddy complexion. She is also
about the same height as her smallish husband and can be domineering when
she wants to be.
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Since winning the Actra Award for Best Newcomer in 1981,
Lally Cadeau has received over a dozen nominations and awards for her work in television,
film, radio, and stage. Her most recent award was the Gemini for Best Actress
in a Leading Role in 1995, for her work as Aunt Janet on Road to Avonlea. Other
awards have included a Bijou and an Actra for Best Lead Actress for her work in the
critically acclaimed You've Come a Long Way, Katie.
Lally has also starred in the CBC series Hangin' In for six years before taking
on the role of the youthful minded Janet (Ward) King. Her other television credits include
guest appearances in Street Legal, Kane and Abel, Adderly, Twilight
Zone, and King of Kensington.
Lally started in theatre where she spent 10 years performing in various productions across
Canada. She also made a six-month detour in New York City. Some of her credits
include: Theatre Du Petit Bonher-, Marie-Louise in the French production of Forever
Yours Marie-Lou, Of the Fields Latey at the Canadian Stage, Saturday,
Sunday, Monday for which she won the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Actress, Taming
of the Shrew at the Theatre New Brunswick, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the
Vancouver Arts Club, Born Yesterday at the Bastion Theatre, The
Women at the Shaw Festival, and A Doll's House at the Globe Theatre: .
In her off-screen life, Lally has three children and a second career as an Interior
Decorator. She is also very involved with her garden. She skis, travels widely, and
generally keeps things pretty tidy.
Lally Cadeau has won two
Gemini Awards, one being for her role as Janet King in 'Road to Avonlea'. She has starred
and guest-starred in various television series and mini-series, and films including
'Deadly Matrimony' (1992), 'Hangin' In' and 'Kane & Abel' (1985). She has been
nominated, and has won awards for her work in television, film, theater and radio,
including an ACTRA Award for Best Newcomer to Television in 1981.
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