Mary Mcmillan

Place: Beaverton

Born: 1895

Death: 1956

Biography:

Mary McMillan was a Canadian film, television and stage actor. She was born in Beaverton, Ontario, Canada on 20 March 1951 and, as an infant, was adopted by Frank and Mary McMillan. She studied theater at Ryerson University but did not graduate, and instead, soon afterwards, joined the Stratford Festival as a young actor. She became well known for her role as Pooh-Bah ('Lord High Everything Else') in an adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado. In the 1980s and 1990s, she was a well regarded Shakespearean actor at the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, as well as an actor in other related stage productions in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She married Anne Louise Bannon in 1991, in her hometown of Windsor, Ontario, and had a daughter Maggie in 1993. She performed in stage productions in and around Toronto, which included a featured role in Inexpressible Island, a three-act dramatic play by David Young, in 1997. She also performed in the Canadian production of The Lion King, a duplicate of the Broadway version, at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2009, and died of the disease on 17 February 2017 in Toronto at Princess Margaret Hospital at the age of 65.