Dixie Seatle is a

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and faculty member in the Acting for Film and Television program at

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's School of Creative and Performing Arts in

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. Her first film credit was a supporting role in the 1978 production of '' A Gift to Last''. Seatle won

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s for her work on the series '' Adderly'' and '' Paradise Falls'' She is a graduate of Dawson College and the National Theatre School in

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. She has also taught at the Stratford Festival, the Toronto Centre for the Arts, George Brown College, and Earl Haig Secondary School. In an op-ed published in September 2014, in ''

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'', triggered by observing a farmer sending a cow to the slaughterhouse, due to its record of miscarriages, Seatle wrote about bonding with the cow over the loss of an offspring, because she too had lost a child.

Filmography

Film

Television

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at Humber's School of Creative and Performing Arts {{DEFAULTSORT:Seatle, Dixie Living people Canadian television actresses Best Actress in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Canadian Screen Award winners 20th-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian actresses Academic staff of Humber College Dawson College alumni National Theatre School of Canada alumni Academic staff of George Brown College