Thea Louise Gill (; born April 5, 1970) is a Canadian actress best known for her starring role as
Lindsay Peterson in the
Showtime television series ''
Queer as Folk''.
Early life
As a child, Gill lived in Vancouver and attended a private girls' school there for twelve years. After graduating from the private school, Gill attended university at
York University
York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...
in Toronto. Gill graduated from York University in 1992 with a
BFA Honours in Theatre Performance.
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Career
After graduating from York, Gill lived in Toronto and spent the next several years working in theatre, guest roles in television series, commercials, and some film roles.
Gill's big break came in 2000 when she auditioned for and received the role of
Lindsay Peterson in ''
Queer as Folk''. Gill held this role for the five season run of ''Queer as Folk''.
In 2001 Gill moved from Toronto to
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Gre ...
.
[
] Gill divided her time between Toronto (shooting ''Queer as Folk'') and Victoria up to 2005 when ''Queer as Folk'' concluded.
With the conclusion of ''Queer as Folk'', Gill has had a number of theatre, television, and film roles. In 2006 she joined the cast of the
here! network original series ''
Dante's Cove
''Dante's Cove'' is an American LGBTQ-oriented supernatural soap opera which aired on Here TV from October 7, 2005, through December 21, 2007. Created and written by Mike Costanza, Michael Costanza and directed by Sam Irvin, the series combines ...
'', billed as a "special guest star" in the role of Diana Childs. In a July 2007 interview, Gill stated that she decided to move to Los Angeles for a year to an attempt to find longer-term acting roles.
In addition to her acting work, Gill is also a jazz singer and has worked as the Midsummer Lounge's featured act on board the Mediterranean and Caribbean cruise ship M.S. ''Carousel''. Gill also did in 2002 a three-night solo singing act at the jazz club,
Top o' the Senator, in Toronto. In 2005, Gill appeared in director
Richard Bell's ''
Eighteen'' as a seductive World War II-era
chanteuse
Many words in the English vocabulary are of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern Eng ...
. This marked Gill's first singing performance in a movie. The song, "In a Heartbeat", was written by
Bramwell Tovey and was later nominated for a Genie Award.
Personal life
Gill's partner since 2013 is author Gina Glass.
Gill was previously married for 16 years to Brian Richmond, a Canadian director, from 1993 to 2009. When Gill was asked in 2003, during her time on ''
Queer As Folk'', "Would you say you are bisexual?", she confirmed this saying, "I guess, well I've thought about that a lot. And I guess perhaps I am."
[Guarino, David (May 12, 2004)]
With Honors: Queer As Folk's Thea Gill
''Windy City Times''. Retrieved February 12, 2013.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
*2003, won a
Golden Sheaf Award for her work in an episode of
''Bliss''
*2003, received The
National Leadership Award from the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
*2003, nominated for an
ACTRA Award
The ACTRA Awards are Canadian accolades presented since 1972 to celebrate excellence in cinema, television and radio industries.[Leo Award
The Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry. Held each May or June in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Leo Awards were founded by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British C ...]
for 'Best Guest Performance by a Female' for her work on an episode of
''The Collector''.
*2007, nominated for a Leo Award for 'Best Actress in a Short Drama' for ''Swap''
References
External links
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1970 births
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
Actresses from Vancouver
Bisexual women musicians
Bisexual singers
Canadian film actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian bisexual actresses
Canadian bisexual musicians
Canadian LGBTQ singers
Living people
Singers from Vancouver
York University alumni
21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people