Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress[1] who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me[2][3] and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper. She is also known for her role as Granny Goodness on the CW series Smallville.
Career
editWilles played the recurring role of Agent Karen E. Kosseff, a government counselor, on the TV show The X-Files.[4] She also appears in a minor recurring role on the show Reaper on The CW, as Gladys, a demon from Hell who works in the DMV.[5] She was nominated in the 2009 Leo Awards in the category of Best Supporting Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series for that role.[6] Like her Dead Like Me co-star Callum Blue, she was cast as the villain Granny Goodness on The CW's Smallville's[7] tenth and final season (Blue appeared in the previous season as Zod). She also had a small role in the award-winning film Trick r Treat starring Anna Paquin,[8] which also featured another Dead Like Me co-star, Britt McKillip. She also played Vera Kane on CW series the 100.
Christine appeared as Madam Lazar in Catherine Hardwicke's production of Red Riding Hood.
She has won three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards,[1][9] and both produced and starred in Jasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man.[10][11] She directed Metamorphoses at Pacific Theatre in August 2008,[12] and played Clara Epp in Touchstone Theatre's 2010 World Premiere of Sally Stubb's Herr Beckmann's People.[13]
Willes had a recurring role as Patty Deckler in the third series of the drama series Mistresses in 2015.
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Big Bully | Teacher - 1970 | |
| 1998 | I'll Be Home for Christmas | Race Official | |
| 2000 | MVP: Most Valuable Primate | Lady #2 | |
| 2002 | Bang Bang You're Dead | Sandwich Woman | |
| 2004 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Arlene Sheehy | |
| 2006 | The Wicker Man | Sister Violet | |
| 2007 | Trick 'r Treat | Mrs. Henderson | |
| 2009 | Dead like Me: Life After Death | Delores Herbig | [14] |
| 2011 | Red Riding Hood | Madame Lazar | |
| 2011 | Sucker Punch | Reception Nurse / Designer | |
| 2013 | Horns | Receptionist | |
| 2013 | Lawrence & Holloman | Holloman's Mother | |
| 2014 | Kid Cannabis | Female Border Guard | |
| 2014 | If I Stay | Nurse Davis | |
| 2014 | Two 4 One | Dr. Sharp | |
| 2014 | Feed the Gods | Baba | |
| 2014 | Mountain Men | Marion Pollard | |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | WSU Grad Speaker / Reader | |
| 2015 | The Driftless Area | Concerned Woman | |
| 2018 | The Professor | Widow #1 | |
| 2019 | A Dog's Way Home | Leslie |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 21 Jump Street | Nurse | Episode: "Woolly Bullies" |
| 1992 | Shame | Claire | Television film |
| 1992 | Child of Rage | Teacher | |
| 1994 | Moment of Truth: To Walk Again | Balboa nurse | |
| 1995 | Serving in Silence | Col. Angela Webber | |
| 1995–2016 | The X-Files | Karen Kosseff / Sister Mary | 4 episodes |
| 1996 | A Kidnapping in the Family | Ellen | Television film |
| 1996 | For Hope | Nurse Start | |
| 1997 | The Outer Limits | Nurse Yvette | Episode: "Dark Rain" |
| 1997 | Dad's Week Off | Alice | Television film |
| 1998 | Outrage | Judge | |
| 1997 | Cupid | Doctor #1 | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1998–1999 | Mercy Point | Nurse Molly Tobitt | 7 episodes |
| 1998–1999 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Mrs. Gotteramerding | 5 episodes |
| 1999 | Silver Wolf | Mrs. Gates | Television film |
| 1999 | Hope Island | Mrs. Salvo | Episode: "It Takes a Voyage to Learn" |
| 2000 | Runaway Virus | Tall Woman | Television film |
| 2000 | Sole Survivor | Mercy Ealing | |
| 2001 | So Weird | Waitress | Episode: "The Muse" |
| 2002 | Dark Angel | Church Lady | Episode: "Freak Nation" |
| 2003–2004 | Dead Like Me | Delores Herbig | 26 episodes |
| 2004 | Kingdom Hospital | Emma Warburton | Episode: "The West Side of Midnight" |
| 2004 | The Book of Ruth | DeeDee | Television film |
| 2005 | FBI: Negotiator | Mrs. Branch | |
| 2006 | A Little Thing Called Murder | Loretta | |
| 2006 | Psych | Ms. Foote | Episode: "Spellingg Bee" |
| 2006 | Four Extraordinary Women | Dr. Warner | Television film |
| 2006 | To Have and to Hold | McNary | |
| 2007 | Passion's Web | DA Lockwood | |
| 2007 | Write & Wrong | Marty's Assistant | |
| 2007 | Flash Gordon | Edie Atkins | Episode: "Life Source" |
| 2007 | Snowglobe | Joy | Television film |
| 2007–2009 | Reaper | Gladys | 15 episodes |
| 2008 | Nightmare at the End of the Hall | Robin | Television film |
| 2009 | Defying Gravity | Dr. Greer | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | The Good Wife | Laine | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2009 | Sorority Wars | Mary Lee Snow | Television film |
| 2010–2011 | Smallville | Granny Goodness | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | To the Mat | Cecile Slocum | Television film |
| 2011 | Possessing Piper Rose | Ruth | |
| 2011 | InSecurity | Alex's Mother | 2 episodes |
| 2012 | The Factory | Realtor | Television film |
| 2012 | The 12 Disasters of Christmas | Miriam | |
| 2012–2013 | Emily Owens, M.D. | E.R. Nurse | 8 episodes |
| 2014 | Signed, Sealed, Delivered | Vivian Lasseter | Episode: "Time to Start Livin'" |
| 2014 | The 100 | Vera Kane | 3 episodes |
| 2014 | Zapped | Principal Mumford | Television film |
| 2014 | The Christmas Secret | Gloria | |
| 2014 | Til Death Do Us Part | Liz | |
| 2015 | I Do, I Do, I Do | Margaret Lorenzo | |
| 2015 | The Returned | Loretta Russo | 3 episodes |
| 2015 | Mistresses | Patty Deckler | 7 episodes |
| 2015 | Supernatural | Jenna's Grandmother | Episode: "Form and Void" |
| 2015–2017 | The Gourmet Detective | Doris | 4 episodes |
| 2016 | Heartbeat | Mrs. Rothberg | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2016 | Summer Love | Eleanor | Television film |
| 2016 | Aftermath | The Nurse | Episode: "Hieronymo's Mad Againe" |
| 2017 | You Me Her | Rita Seaver | 2 episodes |
| 2018 | The Good Doctor | Judge Vicki Spain | Episode: "36 Hours" |
| 2018 | Christmas Pen Pals | Martha | Television film |
| 2019 | Michelle's | Tea Woman | Episode: "A Queen's Cowboy" |
| 2019 | The Last Bridesmaid | Grandma Raye | Television film |
| 2020 | Martha's Vineyard Mysteries | Judy | Episode: "A Beautiful Place to Die" |
| 2020 | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Elaine Kosgrove | Episode: "The Returned" |
| 2021 | Turner & Hooch | Senator Helen Pine | Episode: "To Serve and Pawtect" |
| 2021 | Family Law | Carole Creedy | Episode: "Blame It On The Mother" |
| 2021 | Legends of Tomorrow | Eleanor Roosevelt | Episode: "A Woman's Place Is in the War Effort!" |
| 2022 | The Wedding Veil | Hilda | Television film |
| 2022 | Upload | Janet Boxner | Episode: "The Outing" |
| 2023 | Superman & Lois | Governor Kerry Wexler | Episode: "Collision Course" |
References
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- ^ "'Dead Like Me' Does a Body Good" by Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (25 July 2004) Retrieved from ProQuest 390964318
- ^ Dead Like Me review by Phil Gallo at variety.com
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- ^ "The Idiot Box: No grim end for CW's 'Reaper'" by Amy Robinson, The Charleston Gazette (15 May 2008) Retrieved from ProQuest 331541288
- ^ Past Nominees & Winners 2009 at www.leoawards.com
- ^ "'Smallville' recap: 'Abandoned': Teri Hatcher, as Lois' mom, upstaged by Julian Sands, Helen Slater, and Lindsay Hartley" by Ken Tucker at ew.com
- ^ "Moriarty Reports On The AICN Trick’r’Treat Screening! A Ton Of Reader Reviews! And Some Nightmare Before Christmas Thoughts?!" by Moriarty at aintitcool.com
- ^ "Angry Housewives takes top honors at Jessie awards" by Lloyd Dykk, Vancouver Sun (22 June 1987) Retrieved from ProQuest 243770584
- ^ "Alone with their thoughts, together: Play exposes the private debates that rage within" by Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun (13 Oct, 2006) [Final Edition] Retrieved from ProQuest 242147189
- ^ "Drama breaches decorum's bubble" by Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail (7 Oct, 2006) Retrieved from ProQuest 383506405
- ^ "The gods make a splash; Simple item; the metamorphosis is profound" by Lynn Mitges, The Province (29 July 2008) Retrieved from ProQuest 269533375
- ^ "Thematic threads tied up in Nazis; Multilayered play difficult to understand on many levels" by Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier (16 June 2010) Retrieved from ProQuest 503769085
- ^ "TV on DVD: the death of Dead Like Me" by Denise Duguay at montrealgazette.com