Tracy Dawson

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.[1] She won the same award at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.[2] She has lived in Los Angeles since 2006 and gained American citizenship in 2015.

Tracy Dawson
Born (1983-04-09) 9 April 1983
Ottawa, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)film, television and stage actress, playwright
Known forCall Me Fitz, The Gavin Crawford Show

Career

An alumna of The Second City's Toronto company,[3] her other credits include The Gavin Crawford Show,[4] Wild Card, Duct Tape Forever, SketchCom and an appearance as a guest anchor on This Hour Has 22 Minutes in 2006. She also portrayed Deimata, Skylar's personal monster from the 2012 Disney Channel Original Movie, Girl vs. Monster.

Dawson wrote the stage play Them & Us, which premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2009.[5] She has also written for Call Me Fitz, SketchCom, Single White Spenny, and Your Family or Mine.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role 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
Year Title Role 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 The Gavin Crawford Show Heather Scranton 30 episodes
2001 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
  1. "'Call Me Fitz' writer Tracy Dawson wins Gemini for best actress". Yahoo! News, September 8, 2011.
  2. "Call Me Fitz, Seed each get 8 nods at Canadian Screen Awards". The Chronicle Herald, January 13, 2014.
  3. "Canadian Comedy Travels Light--and Well". Chicago Tribune, August 20, 1999.
  4. "That's so Gavin and Mary". Jam!, February 20, 2002.
  5. "Them's the breaks". NOW, January 6, 2009.


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