Nonnie Griffin
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Nonnie Griffin (20 October 1933 – 7 June 2019)
Biography
Apart from being a veteran of the
She made guest appearances on several television series, including
She also appeared in several films, including The Believers, The Abduction, Good Fences, A Husband, a Wife and a Lover and If You Could See What I Hear.
Nonnie wrote the play Sister Annunciata’s Secret, in which she played six different characters. The play appeared at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later at the Hamilton Fringe Festival.
Nonnie's one woman play, Marilyn-After, which imagines Marilyn Monroe coming back to life fifty years after her untimely death, played the SpringWorks Festival in Stratford, Ontario in 2014. The show also played at Toronto's Buddies In Bad Times Theatre in 2014 and was performed in Hamilton, Ontario in January 2015. Nonnie continued to tour the show throughout 2015 with Baby Gumm Productions, winning Best International Show at the 2015 United Solo Theatre Festival in New York City.[2]
Nonnie's diary, published as Showbiz and other Addictions, follows her career on stages across Canada.
Death
Griffin, 85, died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. She was in rehearsals for a new solo show about Margaret Mitchell that would have been performed within days of her death.
References
- ^ "Toronto actress Nonnie Griffin dies at 85 on eve of debuting new one-woman show". www.citynews1130.com. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
- ^ "Nonnie Griffin brings Marilyn Monroe back to life in one woman play". Toronto Star. 9 October 2014.
Nonnie Griffin Biography by L. Mangue, Nerf-Herders Anonymous.net [1].
External links
- Nonnie Griffin at IMDb