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Martha Henry, CC (born February 17, 1938, Detroit, Michigan) is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her appearances at the Stratford Festival. Martha Henry grew up in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills and attended Kingswood School (today Cranbrook Kingswood School). She was an early graduate from the National Theatre School in Montreal, and very quickly became a leading actress at the Stratford Festival, appearing in leading roles from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. During these years she won great acclaim in many roles including Titania in A... MORE

Martha Henry, CC (born February 17, 1938, Detroit, Michigan) is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her appearances at the Stratford Festival. Martha Henry grew up in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills and attended Kingswood School (today Cranbrook Kingswood School). She was an early graduate from the National Theatre School in Montreal, and very quickly became a leading actress at the Stratford Festival, appearing in leading roles from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. During these years she won great acclaim in many roles including Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1969), Isabella in Measure for Measure (1976), Olga in Three Sisters (1976), and Paulina in The Winter's Tale (1978). She and a team of three other directors (Urjo Kareda, Pam Brighton, and Peter Moss) were hired to lead Stratford's 1981 season after the resignation of Robin Phillips. The subsequent dismissal of the team a few months later caused a huge national uproar, and caused Henry and several other Stratford veterans to work away from the Festival for several years. She was Artistic Director of the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario from 1988 to 1994. In 1993 she LESS