Torri Webster (born August 12, 1996) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her starring role as Tess Foster in the YTV teen sitcom '' Life with Boys'', which earned her the

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for Best Leading Young Actress in a TV Series. Webster also played the recurring character of PeaseBlossom, an eccentric fairy in the Nickelodeon show ''The Other Kingdom.''

Early life and education

Webster was born on August 12, 1996 in

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, Ontario, Canada to parents Steve and Tracy Webster from the

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area. As a child, Webster was always performing. She started out dancing at the age of three and loved performing on stage with her dance teams. She attended a French immersion elementary school but was drawn to the performing arts as a teen. As a teen, she attended high school at the

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, where she further enhanced her performing skills on stage playing leads in various musical theatre productions. She then studied musical theatre at the

New York University Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic, and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch ...

in 2014, and marketing and film studies at

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, where she graduated with a

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(Creative Industries) with distinction in 2018. Webster currently lives in her home town of

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Filmography

Accolades

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Webster, Torri 1996 births Living people 21st-century Canadian actresses Actresses from Toronto Canadian child actresses Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses