{{Short description|Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director}} {{Infobox person | name = Terry Tweed | occupation = Actress, playwright, theatre director | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|3|23}} }} '''Terry Tweed''' (born 23 March 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director from Toronto, Ontario.<ref name="harvest">"Director hopes to harvest magic in U of O revival of Farm Show". ''Ottawa Citizen'', March 10, 1987.</ref><ref name="encyclopedia">[http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Tweed%2C%20Terry "Tweed, Terry"]. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.</ref>
==Career== Primarily known as a stage actress,<ref name=harvest/> her roles have included productions of ''Balconville'',<ref>"Masterful acting abounds in Fennario's Balconville". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 4, 1979.</ref> ''Blood Relations'',<ref>"New Lennoxville director: Play a trial run for Swan". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 9, 1982.</ref> ''Romeo and Juliet'',<ref>"The Free Theatre to hold fund-raiser May 26 A new Romeo and the regions in retreat". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 2, 1986.</ref> ''The Glace Bay Miners' Museum'',<ref>"Glace Bay Miners' Museum strong, stirring -- right on!". ''Ottawa Citizen'', February 27, 1998.</ref> ''Driving Miss Daisy'', ''Another Home Invasion'', ''Over the River and Through the Woods'', ''Homechild'', ''Orpheus Descending'', ''The Comedy of Errors'' and ''Happy Days'', while she has directed productions of ''Blood Brothers'', ''The Women'', ''Arcadia'', ''Gypsy'', ''Salt-Water Moon'',<ref name=encyclopedia/> ''Our Town'' and ''Albertine in Five Times''.<ref name=encyclopedia/>
She also starred in the television sitcoms ''Delilah''<ref>"Roasting turkeys". ''Toronto Star'', October 10, 1992.</ref> and ''The Baxters'',<ref>"Canadian Baxters aims to do better". ''The Globe and Mail'', August 14, 1980.</ref> and as Lillian Massey in the 1978 television film ''The Masseys'',<ref>"Masseys larger-than-life portrait of Ontario over-achievers". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 21, 1978.</ref> as well as making guest appearances on ''Katts and Dog'', ''Street Legal'' and ''Skins''.
She was cowriter of two plays, ''Lockhartville'' (an adaptation of Alden Nowlan's novel ''Various Persons Named Kevin O'Brien'') and ''On My Own Two Feet''.<ref name=encyclopedia/>
She is a former professor of theatre at the University of Ottawa,<ref name=encyclopedia/> and a former president of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association.<ref name=encyclopedia/> She currently teaches theatre at Humber College and at the Birmingham Conservatory of the Stratford Festival.
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0878524}}
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