Tracy Dawson

{{short description|Canadian actress, comedian and writer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Infobox person | name = Tracy Dawson | image = Tracy Dawson in 2011.jpg | image_size = 160px | caption = Dawson in 2011 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1983|04|09}} | birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario | death_date =  | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = film, television and stage actress, playwright | known_for = ''Call Me Fitz'', ''The Gavin Crawford Show'' }} '''Tracy Dawson''' is a Canadian actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for her role as Meghan Fitzpatrick in ''Call Me Fitz'', for which she won the Gemini Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series or Program at the 2011 Gemini Awards.<ref>[http://ca.celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/north-stars/call-fitz-writer-tracy-dawson-wins-gemini-best-180758434.html "'Call Me Fitz' writer Tracy Dawson wins Gemini for best actress"]. Yahoo! News, September 8, 2011.</ref> She won the same award at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.<ref>[http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1179346-call-me-fitz-seed-each-get-8-nods-at-canadian-screen-awards "Call Me Fitz, Seed each get 8 nods at Canadian Screen Awards"]. ''The Chronicle Herald'', January 13, 2014.</ref> She has lived in Los Angeles since 2006 and gained American citizenship in 2015.

== Career == An alumna of The Second City's Toronto company,<ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/1999/08/20/canadian-comedy-travels-light-and-well/ "Canadian Comedy Travels Light--and Well"]. ''Chicago Tribune'', August 20, 1999.</ref> her other credits include ''The Gavin Crawford Show'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160826011200/http://jam.canoe.com/Television/TV_Shows/G/Gavin_Crawford_Show/2002/02/20/pf-734226.html "That's so Gavin and Mary"]. ''Jam!'', February 20, 2002.</ref> ''Wild Card'', ''Duct Tape Forever'', ''SketchCom'' and an appearance as a guest anchor on ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' in 2006. In 2012, She also portrayed Deimata, Skylar's personal monster from the Disney Channel Original Movie, ''Girl vs. Monster''.

Dawson wrote the stage play ''Them & Us'', which premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2009.<ref>[http://www.nowtoronto.com/daily/story.cfm?content=166695 "Them's the breaks"]. ''NOW'', January 6, 2009.</ref> She has also written for ''Call Me Fitz'', ''SketchCom,'' ''Single White Spenny,'' and ''Your Family or Mine''.

In 2022, her book ''Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men To Do Shit They Weren't Supposed To Do'' was published by HarperCollins.<ref name="globe">{{Cite web|title= Screenwriter Tracy Dawson considered posing as a man to further her career. She wrote a book about it instead |url= https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-speaking-frankly-with-authortracy-dawson/ |work= theglobeandmail.com |date= May 16, 2022}}</ref>

== Filmography ==

=== Film === {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ !Year !Title !Role !class="unsortable" | Notes |- |2000 |''Loser'' |Drug Saleswoman | |- |2001 |''On the Line'' |Goth Girl | |- |2002 |''Duct Tape Forever'' |Mandy Humphrey | |- |2002 |''Fancy Dancing'' |Funny Singer | |- |2003 |''Honey'' |Assistant Director | |- |2011 |''Chillerama'' |Molly | |}

=== Television === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Role !class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1996 |''Talk to Me'' |Thelma |Television film |- |1998 |''Goosebumps'' |Mother |Episode: "Chillogy: Part 1: Squeal of Fortune" |- |1998, 1999 |''SketchCom'' |Various |2 episodes |- |1999 |''Twice in a Lifetime'' |Pauline Kraft |Episode: "O'er the Ramparts We Watched" |- |2000–2003 |data-sort-value="Gavin Crawford Show, The" | ''The Gavin Crawford Show'' |Heather Scranton |30 episodes |- |2001 |data-sort-value="Endless Grind, The" | ''The Endless Grind'' |Various |Episode #1.8 |- |2002 |''Doc'' |Angel Williams |Episode: "Busy Man" |- |2003 |''America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story'' |Shrine Girl #2 |Television film |- |2004–2005 |''Wild Card'' |Maizie / Clerk |4 episodes |- |2005 |''G-Spot'' |Cynthia |Episode: "Gigi Gets a Job" |- |2005 |''Recipe for a Perfect Christmas'' |Cody |Television film |- |2010–2013 |''Call Me Fitz'' |Meghan Fitzpatrick |46 episodes |- |2012 |''Girl vs. Monster'' |Deimata |Television film |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0206288}} *{{Twitter|id=dawsontracy}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dawson, Tracy}} Category:Living people Category:1983 births Category:21st-century Canadian actresses Category:21st-century Canadian comedians Category:21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights Category:21st-century Canadian screenwriters Category:21st-century Canadian women writers Category:Actresses from Ottawa Category:Best Actress in a Comedy Series Canadian Screen Award winners Category:Canadian film actresses Category:Canadian sketch comedians Category:Canadian stage actresses Category:Canadian television actresses Category:Canadian television personalities Category:Canadian television writers Category:Canadian women comedians Category:Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Category:Canadian women television writers Category:Canadian women television personalities Category:Comedians from Ottawa Category:Writers from Ottawa Category:Screenwriters from Ontario