#182 Mary Walsh - actress, comedian and writer

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Mary Walsh created and starred in This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC’s wildly popular take
on current affairs. The series earned her many of her numerous Gemini awards and
showcased her dynamic range of characters, including the flagrantly outspoken ‘Marg
Delahunty’.
Walsh wrote, produced and starred in the Gemini award winning series Hatching,
Matching and Dispatching, which returned to CBC in 2017 as a feature length
presentation called A Christmas Fury, with Walsh and the original cast reprising their
roles. In 2017 she released her debut novel, a Canadian best-seller, Crying For The
Moon.
Walsh’s recent TV credits include CBC’s Hudson & Rex, Global’s Rookie Blue, HBO
Canada’s Sensitive Skin, CBC’s Little Dog for which she was nominated for a 2020
Canadian Screen Award, and numerous guest appearances on This Hour Has 22
Minutes.In 2022 Walsh wrote, directed, and produced the second season of The Missus
Downstairs, a webseries for Bell FibeTV1, with season 3 currently in development.
Select feature film credits include The Grand Seduction and Closet Monster (Official
selections at TIFF 2014 and 2015, respectively), Mambo Italiano and Terror Train. In
2020 she appeared in a leading role in Helen Shaver’s first feature film Happy Place, for
which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2021 Walsh
wrote directed and produced her first short film, Dad and the Fridge Box, which can be
found on CBC Gem.
Outside of the film, TV and theatre world, Mary is an outspoken advocate for mental
health and addiction awareness as a spokesperson for Bell Let’s Talk.
Among her many awards and doctorates, Mary is the recipient of the Order of Canada,
the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Performing Arts, and the
CSA’s Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement in television acting.
Gale Force Wins exists to help individuals and companies tell their stories and inspire more optimism in people, products, our economy and our lives. The podcast focuses on conversations with leaders, business owners and change-makers THAT INSPIRE...diving deep with each guest to uncover their wins and the stories behind them.
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Gale Force Wins started out simply as an inspirational podcast releasing episodes wherever you get your podcasts every Tuesday evening. We continue to do that every Tuesday but have expanded into custom content for clients. We also have perfected a conference and trade show offering where you can receive over 20 videos edited and posted to social media at the same time the event is unfolding.
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