{{Short description|Canadian actress, writer, and producer}} {{Infobox person | name = Cayle Chernin | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Cayle Vivian Chernin | birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|12|4}} | birth_place = Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|02|18|1947|12|4|mf=yes}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | resting_place = Pardes Chaim Cemetery, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada | occupation = Actress, producer, writer | years_active = 1970–2011 }}

'''Cayle Vivian Chernin''' (December 4, 1947 &ndash; February 18, 2011)<ref name="Lunau">{{cite web|url=http://www.macleans.ca/2011/03/23/the-end-cayle-vivian-chernin-1947-2011/ |title=The end: Cayle Vivian Chernin – 1947-2011 |last=Lunau |first=Kate |date=March 23, 2011 |work=Maclean's }}</ref> was a Canadian actress, writer, and producer born in Glace Bay, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She began her career with a small, but important, role in Donald Shebib's Canadian film ''Goin' Down the Road'' (1970).<ref name="Lunau" /> She later produced award-winning documentaries, and acted in film, television and theatre;<ref name="Lunau" /> when she returned to acting in the 2000s, having become better known as a filmmaker she initially used the stage names '''Cayle-Lorraine Sinclair''' or '''Lorraine Sinclair''' in her acting roles, before reverting back to Cayle Chernin in the late 2000s.

Chernin had ovarian cancer which was rapidly spreading, but she died of a virus she caught in hospital on February 18, 2011, at the age of 63.<ref name="can press obit">{{cite news |title='Goin' Down the Road' actress Cayle Chernin dead at 63 |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/goin-down-the-road-actress-cayle-chernin-dead-at-63-1.609936 |access-date=2011-02-20 |newspaper=Canadian Press |date=February 20, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223112909/http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20110220/cayle-chernin-dead-at-63-110220 |archive-date=2011-02-23 }}</ref> Diagnosed in June 2010, she filmed a sequel to ''Goin' Down the Road'' titled ''Down the Road Again'', in October 2010.<ref name="Lunau" /> The film was theatrically released posthumously in October 2011.<ref name="Quill Review">{{cite news|last=Quill|first=Greg|title=Goin' down memory lane|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/2490947521.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+21%2C+2011&author=GREG+QUILL&pub=Toronto+Star&edition=&startpage=E.3&desc=Goin%27+down+memory+lane|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130131201029/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/2490947521.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+21,+2011&author=GREG+QUILL&pub=Toronto+Star&edition=&startpage=E.3&desc=Goin'+down+memory+lane|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2013|access-date=2012-02-16|newspaper=The Toronto Star|date=2011-10-21|location=Toronto|page=E3}}</ref> Co-star Jayne Eastwood stated that Chernin put off cancer treatment in order to complete the film. Contrary to Eastwood's quote, when Cayle Chernin was diagnosed, she rejected chemotherapy, embarking on alternative cancer treatments during the course of her illness. Chernin resided in Toronto, Ontario at the time of her death.<ref name="can press obit" />

==Filmography== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | rowspan=2| 1970 | ''Goin' Down the Road'' | Selina | |- | ''Love in a Four Letter World'' | Sam | |- | 1972 | ''Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues'' | Raymonde | |- | 1976 | ''Tracks'' | Train passenger | |- | rowspan=2| 1978 | ''Sidestreet'' | | One episode |- | ''King of Kensington'' | | One episode |- | 1986 | ''Baraba'' | | |- | 1987 | ''Concrete Angels'' | Mrs. Levinson | |- | 1991 | data-sort-value="Graveyard Story, The" | ''The Graveyard Story'' | Miss Bloor | |- | 1992 | data-sort-value="Town Torn Apart, A" | ''A Town Torn Apart'' | Gladys | |- | 1998 | ''Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science'' | Bernadette Belanger | One episode |- | 2000 | ''Passengers'' | Grandmother | |- | 2001 | ''What Makes a Family'' | ICU nurse | |- | 2002 | ''Not a Fish Story'' | Rose Mattersal | |- | 2003 | ''Rhinoceros Eyes'' | Waitress | |- | 2004 | ''Queer as Folk'' | Katherine | One episode |- | rowspan=4| 2005 | ''Family Practice'' | Mom | |- | data-sort-value="Fool, The" | ''The Fool'' | | |- | ''Leo'' | Florence | |- | ''Lie with Me'' | | |- | 2006 | ''Car Lady & Bike Girl'' | Car Lady | |- | rowspan=2| 2007 | ''Little Mosque on the Prairie'' | Hallowe'en mom | One episode |- | data-sort-value="Birthday, The" | ''The Birthday'' | Diana | |- | rowspan=2| 2008 | data-sort-value="Princess of Selkirk Avenue, The" | ''The Princess of Selkirk Avenue'' | Rose | |- | ''Of Murder and Memory'' | Mrs. Miller | |- | rowspan=2| 2011 | ''Single White Spenny'' | Ida | One episode |- | ''Down the Road Again'' | Selma | |}

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