Biography
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
2024
as Miriam
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
2024
as Suzanne
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
2021
as Alma's Mom
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
2020
as Mrs. Applebaum
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
2020
as Allison's Mum
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
2019
as Marina Gentile
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
2018
as Harriet Griswold
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
2018
as Dr. Jill Klavens
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Christmas Festival of Ice
2017
as Carol Parkers
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
2017
as Aunt Sarah
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
2016
as Female G.O.D. (voice)
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
2016
as Mom
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
2015
as Talk Show Hostess
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
2014
as Sheila
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
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
2012
as Mira Tesser
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

The Vow
2012
as Dr. Fishman
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
2011
as Mary Botha
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
2010
as Goldie White
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
2010
as Susan Kane
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
2007
as Mary Stanton
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
2007
as Madeleine
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
2007
as Roz Andrews
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
2006
as Laura Miller
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
2006
as Evelyn Danvers
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
2006
as Lily
A porn producer, an alcoholic, a drug-addicted mother and others struggle to make ends meet.

Skinwalkers
2006
as Female Leader
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
2006
as Eve McClaren
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
2006
as Mary Bloom
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
2005
as Lorraine Evanshen
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
2005
as Louise Arbour
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
2004
as Isabel Morrow
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
2004
as Louise Miller
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
2004
as Elaine Burka
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
2003
as Angela Landis
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
2003
as Ede Kilworth
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
2003
as McNally 'Mac' Hays
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
2002
as Laura Miller
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
2002
as Patsy Grady
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
2002
as Amanda Trent
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Verdict in Blood
2002
as Joanne Kilbourn
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
2002
Associate Producer
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
2002
as Sarah
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
2002
as Joanne Kilbourn
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
2002
as Jane Doe
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
2001
as Karen Potter
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
2001
as Jackie York
A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.

The Wandering Soul Murders
2001
as Joanne Kilbourn
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
2001
as Joanne Kilbourn
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
2001
as Joanne Kilbourn
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
2000
as Natalie Gibson
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
2000
as Elena
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
2000
as Joanne Kilbourn
Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,

Summer's End
2000
as Virginia Baldwin
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
2000
as Joanne Kilbourn
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
2000
as Bernadine Mello
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
1999
as Ma'am
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
1999
as Billie
A psychotic spaceman takes over a deep-space observatory manned by a scientist, his wife, and their teenage daughter.

Better Than Chocolate
1999
as Lila
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
1999
as Gail Sterling
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?
1998
as Dr. Ninki Bregman
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
1998
as Sue Rodriguez
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
1998
as Theresa Small
In 1919 theatre owner Ambrose Small sold his business and vanished. but who , if anyone, was responsible for his disappearance?

Gang Related
1997
as Helen Eden
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
1997
as Grace Marshall
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
1997
as Norah Stanton
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
1996
as Kevin Dollof
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
1996
as Ada Jordan
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
1995
as Roberta "Robbie" Cratchet
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
1995
as Susan Silverman
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
1994
as Susan Silverman
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
1994
as Laura
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
1994
as Jenny Davis
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
1994
as Dorsie Young
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
1994
as Victoria Renko
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
1993
as Susan Evans
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
1993
as Cassie Stewart
When a father leaves his family, his religious daughter faces a new school and added responsibilities.

Folks!
1992
as Audrey Aldrich
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
1991
as Leslie Abbott
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
1990
as Sophie Ware
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
1988
as Evelyn
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
1987
as Laurie
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
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
1986
as Michelle Benti
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
1986
as Dale
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
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
1985
as Irene Tremayne (uncredited)
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
1985
as Irene Tremayne
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
A student with a crush on his teacher becomes even more frustrated when his widowed father begins going out with the woman.

The Guardian
1984
as Marlee Kramer
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
1984
as Judy
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
1983
as Barbara / Dorigen
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
1982
as Kate Finch
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
1980
as Kate
Pigeon
N/A
as Unnamed woman
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...