Cynthia Dale

Cynthia Ciurluini, known professionally as Cynthia Dale, is a Canadian television actress and stage performer. She is best known for her role as lawyer Olivia Novak in the 1987–94, and re-booted in 2019, television drama Street Legal.[1]

Cynthia Dale
Born
Cynthia Ciurluini

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma materMichael Power/St. Joseph High School
Spouse(s)
(
m. 1998)
ChildrenWilliam Mansbridge (b. 1999)
RelativesJennifer Dale (Sister)

Biography

Dale was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and attended Michael Power/St. Joseph High School. She is the sister of Canadian actress Jennifer Dale and entered the acting world in 1965 after accompanying her sister to an audition. Dale and her sister would appear together in a CBC variety special.

In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in a number of movies and stage productions. She appeared as Patty in the 1981 Canadian slasher film, My Bloody Valentine. She appeared in New York City in an off-Broadway play in 1987, and previously in 1983 first appeared at the Stratford Festival, where she has headlined several shows (mostly musicals) in the 2000s. She starred in the 1985 movie Heavenly Bodies, where she played the owner of an aerobics dance studio.

Since 1998, she has been married to CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge. They have one child, Will.

She was a member of the judging panel of the Canadian TV show Triple Sensation in 2007.

She played Helen Bechdel in the Musical Stage Company's Off Mirvish production of Fun Home at the CAA Theatre from April 13 to May 20, 2018.[2]

Filmography

Movies
Year Title Role Notes
1981 My Bloody Valentine Patty
1983 Snow Short
1984 Heavenly Bodies Samantha Blair
1986 The Boy in Blue Margaret
1987 Moonstruck Sheila
2008 A Broken Life Carla

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1980-81 The Wayne & Shuster Superspecial 2 Episodes: Cyrano de Bergerac, The Swan Lake Murders
1986 The Campbells Sarah Greener 2 Episodes: Tales of the Canadas, Heaven Sent
1987 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Elizabeth 1 Episode: The Liberators
Seeing Things Marlena 1 Episode, Eye of the Beholder
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Kelly 1 Episode: World's Oldest Motive
Adderly Lisping Woman 1 Episode, Midnight in Morocco
Sadie and Son Paula Melvin TV Movie
1987-88 Night Heat Allana Pride / Gloria 2 Episodes: Set for Life, All the King's Horses
1988-94 Street Legal Olivia Novak 107 Episodes
1989 Baby Cakes Olivia TV Movie
1990 War of the Worlds Tila 1 Episode: The Obelisk
1992 In the Eyes of a Stranger Nancy TV Movie
1995 At the Midnight Hour Jullian TV Movie
Taking the Falls Terry Lane 13 Episodes
Spenser: A Savage Place Candy Sloane TV Movie
1996 The Newsroom herself 1 Episode: Petty Tyranny
1998 Witness to Yesterday Marie Antoinette 1 Episode: Marie Antoinette
Thanks of a Grateful Nation Lisa Tuite TV Movie
1999 P.T. Barnum Charity TV Movie
2001 The Pretender 2001 Agent Zane TV Movie
The Industry Susan Doyle 1 Episode: Husband & Wife
2002 Trudeau Opening Hostess TV Movie
2009 Christmas Dreams Rose Lunette TV Movie
2010-11 Baxter Belinda Nightingale 3 Episodes: Audition Fever, Cindy and the Prince of Rock, Finale
2011 The Listener Diane Feeny 1 Episode: Eye of the Storm
2014 Working the Engels Lytton Schultz 1 Episode: Family Therapy
2019 Street Legal Olivia Novak Rebooted version of 1988-94 series
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References
  1. The New York Times
  2. Musical Stage Company http://musicalstagecompany.com/production/fun-home/. Missing or empty |title= (help)


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