Wendy Crewson

Wendy Crewson

1956-05-09 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 96 Credits

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Wendy Crewson is a Canadian actress known for her versatile performances in film and television. She has had a prolific career spanning several decades, appearing in a wide range of roles across various genres. Crewson has starred in numerous popular movies, including "The Santa Clause" series, "Air Force One," and "The Good Son." Her talent and adaptability have allowed her to portray diverse characters, making her a highly respected figure in the entertainment industry, particularly in both Ca...

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Close to You

Close to You

2024

as Miriam

5.0
Acting

A trans man returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first ...

Backspot

Backspot

2024

as Suzanne

6.4
Acting

Riley, a mid-level cheerleader, lands on the All-Star squad, Thunderhawks. With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her crippling anxiety, her ...

Under the Christmas Tree

Under the Christmas Tree

2021

as Alma's Mom

5.9
Acting

Marketing whiz Alma Beltran and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie Freemont cross paths when Charlie finds the perfect tree for the Maine Governor's Hol...

The Kid Detective

The Kid Detective

2020

as Mrs. Applebaum

6.6
Acting

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client ...

The Nest

The Nest

2020

as Allison's Mum

6.1
Acting

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After a...

From the Vine

From the Vine

2019

as Marina Gentile

5.6
Acting

A downtrodden man experiences an ethical crisis and travels back to his hometown in rural Italy to recalibrate his moral compass. There he finds new p...

On the Basis of Sex

On the Basis of Sex

2018

as Harriet Griswold

7.4
Acting

Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century o...

Death Wish

Death Wish

2018

as Dr. Jill Klavens

6.2
Acting

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Christmas Festival of Ice

Christmas Festival of Ice

2017

as Carol Parkers

5.3
Acting

A young woman faces her future as a lawyer in a small New England town where the annual Christmas ice sculpting competition in which she and her fathe...

Kodachrome

Kodachrome

2017

as Aunt Sarah

6.8
Acting

Matt Ryder is convinced to drive his estranged and dying father Benjamin Ryder cross country to deliver four old rolls of Kodachrome film to the last ...

Tomorrow's Shadows

Tomorrow's Shadows

2016

as Female G.O.D. (voice)

Acting

Where futures are known and happiness is guaranteed by G.O.D., a mother is given a choice - her child or her perfect future.

Into the Forest

Into the Forest

2016

as Mom

5.9
Acting

In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. In...

Room

Room

2015

as Talk Show Hostess

8.0
Acting

Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world ...

Fall

Fall

2014

as Sheila

1.0
Acting

An aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral.

Jack

2013

as Anne McGrath

7.0
Acting

NDP Leader Jack Layton was fluently bilingual, glib, sometimes flashy, full of energy and always media-friendly. He loved to entertain and uplift his ...

Antiviral

Antiviral

2012

as Mira Tesser

6.0
Acting

Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected ...

Beauty and the Beast

2012

as Mara

Acting
The Vow

The Vow

2012

as Dr. Fishman

7.2
Acting

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost th...

Winnie Mandela

Winnie Mandela

2011

as Mary Botha

5.8
Acting

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband's incarceration.

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

2010

as Goldie White

6.0
Acting

The film centers on three brothers who, upon learning they only have a few days left to live, set off to reverse a lifetime of mistakes. Hopper and Si...

Formosa Betrayed

Formosa Betrayed

2010

as Susan Kane

6.0
Acting

In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web o...

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

2007

as Mary Stanton

5.4
Acting

A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the f...

Away from Her

Away from Her

2007

as Madeleine

7.0
Acting

Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. ...

The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride

2007

as Roz Andrews

4.8
Acting

Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they'v...

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

2006

as Laura Miller

5.5
Acting

Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve!...

The Covenant

The Covenant

2006

as Evelyn Danvers

5.6
Acting

Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must con...

Niagara Motel

Niagara Motel

2006

as Lily

5.8
Acting

A porn producer, an alcoholic, a drug-addicted mother and others struggle to make ends meet.

Skinwalkers

Skinwalkers

2006

as Female Leader

5.1
Acting

Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the night sky for the rise of the blood-re...

Eight Below

Eight Below

2006

as Eve McClaren

7.0
Acting

In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due...

Who Loves the Sun

Who Loves the Sun

2006

as Mary Bloom

5.4
Acting

A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.

The Man Who Lost Himself

The Man Who Lost Himself

2005

as Lorraine Evanshen

5.2
Acting

The life story of Terry Evanshen, a Canadian Football League star who fell into a coma after a fatal car accident. When he wakes up, he has no recolle...

Hunt for Justice

Hunt for Justice

2005

as Louise Arbour

6.0
Acting

The heroic struggle of Canadian Louise Arbour, Chief War Crimes Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as she ba...

A Home at the End of the World

A Home at the End of the World

2004

as Isabel Morrow

6.4
Acting

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their live...

The Clearing

The Clearing

2004

as Louise Miller

5.8
Acting

When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the ...

Jack

Jack

2004

as Elaine Burka

4.9
Acting

Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living w...

Twelve Mile Road

Twelve Mile Road

2003

as Angela Landis

5.6
Acting

A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and fa...

The Piano Man's Daughter

The Piano Man's Daughter

2003

as Ede Kilworth

Acting

Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) stays away from relationships that could lead to ma...

An Unexpected Love

An Unexpected Love

2003

as McNally 'Mac' Hays

5.0
Acting

An unhappily married housewife and mother of two children seperates from her husband and gets a new job where she develops a mutual attraction to her ...

The Santa Clause 2

The Santa Clause 2

2002

as Laura Miller

6.0
Acting

Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscur...

Perfect Pie

Perfect Pie

2002

as Patsy Grady

5.4
Acting

On the invitation of her childhood best friend Patsy McCann née Willets, famed opera singer Francesca Prine - whose real name is Marie Beck - returns ...

Between Strangers

Between Strangers

2002

as Amanda Trent

5.9
Acting

Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Verdict in Blood

Verdict in Blood

2002

as Joanne Kilbourn

5.0
Acting

When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide inv...

Verdict in Blood

Verdict in Blood

2002

Associate Producer

5.0
Producing

When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide inv...

The Matthew Shepard Story

The Matthew Shepard Story

2002

as Sarah

5.5
Acting

In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the fin...

A Killing Spring

A Killing Spring

2002

as Joanne Kilbourn

6.0
Acting

When Reed Gallagher, dean of Journalism at Lanholme College, is found dead of asphyxiation in an apparent attempt at autoerotic suffocation, Joanne Ki...

The Many Trials of One Jane Doe

The Many Trials of One Jane Doe

2002

as Jane Doe

Acting

Based on a true story about an extraordianry woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she...

The Last Brickmaker in America

The Last Brickmaker in America

2001

as Karen Potter

7.6
Acting

A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-yea...

Suddenly Naked

Suddenly Naked

2001

as Jackie York

4.6
Acting

A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.

The Wandering Soul Murders

The Wandering Soul Murders

2001

as Joanne Kilbourn

5.0
Acting

Haunted by the murder of her politician husband 6 years ago, former police detective Joanne Kilbourn keeps looking for clues, with the help of her old...

Criminal Instinct: A Colder Kind of Death

Criminal Instinct: A Colder Kind of Death

2001

as Joanne Kilbourn

Acting

Ex-detective Joanne Kilbourn now works as a university lecturer and a "law and order" commentator for the local news. She is reminded of the reason wh...

A Colder Kind of Death

A Colder Kind of Death

2001

as Joanne Kilbourn

Acting

A former detective is back at work after her husband's murder case is re-opened with a riveting new arrest. Can she grapple with new evidence - and ne...

The 6th Day

The 6th Day

2000

as Natalie Gibson

6.0
Acting

A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man...

What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath

2000

as Elena

6.4
Acting

When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the wh...

Deadly Appearances

Deadly Appearances

2000

as Joanne Kilbourn

5.0
Acting

Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,

Summer's End

Summer's End

2000

as Virginia Baldwin

7.2
Acting

12-year-old boy and his older brother have just lost their dad. At their summer cottage, the younger boy befriends a black doctor who has to deal with...

Love and Murder

Love and Murder

2000

as Joanne Kilbourn

5.0
Acting

While keeping her family together in the wake of her husband's murder, Joanne gets drawn into another murder investigation when a friend, artist Sally...

Mercy

Mercy

2000

as Bernadine Mello

5.2
Acting

Detective Catherine Palmer is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie, who belongs to an exclusive...

Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man

1999

as Ma'am

7.3
Acting

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the ...

Escape Velocity

Escape Velocity

1999

as Billie

4.4
Acting

A psychotic spaceman takes over a deep-space observatory manned by a scientist, his wife, and their teenage daughter.

Better Than Chocolate

Better Than Chocolate

1999

as Lila

6.0
Acting

Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young broth...

Question of Privilege

Question of Privilege

1999

as Gail Sterling

6.0
Acting

A defense attorney wife and her prosecutor husband square off in court over a murder case in which four young boys are accused.

Where's Marlowe?

Where's Marlowe?

1998

as Dr. Ninki Bregman

5.7
Acting

After making a disastrous 3-hour documentary on New York City's water supply, two young filmmakers focus on the goings-on of life in the LA offices of...

At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story

At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story

1998

as Sue Rodriguez

Acting

Based on a true story of Sue Rodriguez who campaigned for the right to die with dignity, opening a controversial ethical debate throughout Canada.

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Sleeping Dogs Lie

1998

as Theresa Small

5.0
Acting

In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?

Gang Related

Gang Related

1997

as Helen Eden

6.4
Acting

Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame t...

Air Force One

Air Force One

1997

as Grace Marshall

6.5
Acting

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossibl...

The Eighteenth Angel

The Eighteenth Angel

1997

as Norah Stanton

4.9
Acting

Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld ...

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

1996

as Kevin Dollof

5.5
Acting

David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks w...

Lives of Girls & Women

Lives of Girls & Women

1996

as Ada Jordan

Acting

A coming of age story for Del Jordan, growing up first on the outskirts, and later in the centre, of the small, southern Ontario town of Jubilee. Del ...

Ebbie

Ebbie

1995

as Roberta "Robbie" Cratchet

4.4
Acting

In this updated retelling of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge is taught the tr...

Spenser: A Savage Place

Spenser: A Savage Place

1995

as Susan Silverman

5.0
Acting

Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operati...

Spenser: The Judas Goat

Spenser: The Judas Goat

1994

as Susan Silverman

5.0
Acting

Spenser is hired out by Hugh Dixon to track down the killers of his wife and daughters. He and Hawk are drawn into a huge plot involving assassination...

The Santa Clause

The Santa Clause

1994

as Laura

6.5
Acting

On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical slei...

Corrina, Corrina

Corrina, Corrina

1994

as Jenny Davis

6.7
Acting

When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper ...

To Save the Children

To Save the Children

1994

as Dorsie Young

6.0
Acting

Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is sh...

Frostfire

Frostfire

1994

as Victoria Renko

1.0
Acting

In the Northern Arctic, an illness is killing animals and people. Reporter Victoria Renko reveals a deadly cover-up while a young Inuit is struggling ...

The Good Son

The Good Son

1993

as Susan Evans

6.8
Acting

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic be...

I'll Never Get to Heaven

I'll Never Get to Heaven

1993

as Cassie Stewart

Acting

When a father leaves his family, his religious daughter faces a new school and added responsibilities.

Folks!

Folks!

1992

as Audrey Aldrich

5.5
Acting

A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life ...

The Doctor

The Doctor

1991

as Leslie Abbott

6.4
Acting

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has s...

Getting Married in Buffalo Jump

Getting Married in Buffalo Jump

1990

as Sophie Ware

1.5
Acting

Years have passed since Sophie (Wendy Crewson) left the ranch her family calls home to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. The death of her father ...

Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs

Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs

1988

as Evelyn

3.9
Acting

In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassinat...

A Hobo's Christmas

A Hobo's Christmas

1987

as Laurie

5.2
Acting

A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at ...

Covert Action

1987

as Jessica

Acting

An RCMP officer and a government representative uncover a KGB plot to assassinate the Premier of Quebec.

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

1986

as Michelle Benti

7.0
Acting

An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to co...

Mark of Cain

Mark of Cain

1986

as Dale

5.0
Acting

A couple live in an old, isolated mansion. The husband's murderous, insane twin escapes from a lunatic asylum. The cops haul off the wrong twin and th...

Whodunit?

1986

as Elizabeth Rollins

3.0
Acting

25 years ago a mother and father went missing and were presumed murdered on Wolfe Island and their bodies never found, and now a tabloid journalist an...

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

1985

as Irene Tremayne (uncredited)

3.5
Acting

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wif...

Murder in Space

Murder in Space

1985

as Irene Tremayne

4.8
Acting

Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing t...

My Father, My Rival

1985

as Hilah

Acting

A student with a crush on his teacher becomes even more frustrated when his widowed father begins going out with the woman.

The Guardian

The Guardian

1984

as Marlee Kramer

4.2
Acting

The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patro...

Heartsounds

Heartsounds

1984

as Judy

8.0
Acting

New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which does...

Skullduggery

Skullduggery

1983

as Barbara / Dorigen

2.4
Acting

Adam is cursed: one of his ancestors played a game and fell victim to a sorcerer or possibly Satan. The curse manifests through Adam and the game, mak...

Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters

1982

as Kate Finch

4.2
Acting

Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. R...

War Brides

War Brides

1980

as Kate

Acting

Pigeon

N/A

as Unnamed woman

Acting

Set in Remies, France in 1941 during World War II, a Jewish man tries to escape Nazi persecution and a chance encounter with a woman sitting next to h...