Bette MacDonald
Acting
Biography
Bette MacDonald is a Gemini Award winner and multiple Canadian Screen Award nominee. She has been making Canadians laugh on screen, radio and on stage for over 25 years. She has starred in three CBC TV series and has been a guest on many popular TV shows including, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Made In Canada. She appeared as Guest Host on CBC radio’s, Madly Off In All Directions, hosted the ECMA awards gala and was a long time favourite headliner at the Ha!ifax Comedy Festival. Bette stars in and is co-writer of, Tis The Season, a holiday-themed show that began as a one night stand nine years ago and has since toured Nova Scotia and beyond, playing to packed houses.
Known For
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
Lexx
Based on Gerry Dee's real-life experiences as a high school teacher before he switched to comedy full-time, MR. D is a story about a charming, under-qualified teacher trying to fake his way through a teaching job, just like he often fakes his way through life.
Mr. D
Earthy, one-hit-wonder disco queen Regina Gallant is recommended for appointment as Governor General by a conniving PM anticipating she will become a national embarrassment, allowing him to move ahead in eliminating the position, along with the Canadian Monarchy. Regina is brash and loud and highly unsuitable for a formal position, but has a charming common touch. In each episode, she becomes embroiled in a scandal of some kind, usually not of her making, only to have things resolve in her favour by the end.
Rideau Hall
Dawn returns home to Nova Scotia to mourn the death of her mother and repair the estrangement with her father, John Andrew. An ancient tractor becomes the focus for the mechanically-minded Dawn, but her father’s long-simmering resentments heighten tensions. Watching his daughter work to restore the tractor, he realises that reclaiming this relationship depends on his own coming out: supporting Dawn publicly and fighting malicious small-town transphobia.