Biography
Barbara Gordon is a Canadian film, television and stage actress. She is most noted as a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress, receiving nods at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 for Wild Horse Hank and at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986 for Overnight. She won a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2000 for Best Actress, Independent Theatre, for her performance as Weasy in Factory Theatre's production of Chaz Thorne's The Dogpatch.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A '90s Christmas
2024
as Grandma Betty
Workaholic lawyer Lucy Miller is celebrating her promotion alone on Christmas Eve when a mysterious rideshare experience transports her back to 1999. ...

A Bestselling Kind of Love
2024
as Evelyn Wood
Nora is thrilled when her first novel shoots to the top of the bestsellers list but is terrified of speaking in front of crowds to promote her book, s...

Maid for Revenge
2023
as Elizabeth Hale
When a struggling young maid wakes up next to her client’s pool covered in blood, she discovers the owner dead in the water and her eight-year-old son...

Danger in the House
2022
as June Covington
As his mother’s illness progresses, a wealthy young man hires a perfect caregiver. But their lives start to spiral into a deadly affair as the caregiv...

The Perfect Wedding
2021
as Nancy
Lindsay is about to marry the man of her dreams- until everything spirals out of control at her bachelorette party. With the wedding called off, she s...

Learning to Love Again
2020
as Mary
After breaking up with her longtime boyfriend and losing her job, Jane reluctantly heads home to the small town she grew up in. But on her way there, ...

Buffaloed
2020
as Mrs. Cooney
Set in the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.

Nostalgic Christmas
2019
as Dorothy Gordon
When Anne helps her father close the family's toy store, what she finds will help inspire an entire town that is need of some Christmas cheer.

The Silence
2019
as Woman with Shotgun
With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

Sleeper
2018
as Barbara
Up until now, marriage has been smooth sailing for Jennifer Jones. But after suffering a miscarriage, she begins to question her happiness and whether...
Life on Juniper
2015
as Edith
Following reports of a mysterious crash, an aging farmer encounters a visitor determined on disrupting his quiet way of life.

Christmas with Tucker
2013
as Cora McCray
While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas f...

Empire of Dirt
2013
as Mrs. Armstrong
Lena flees to her rural hometown after her 13-year-old daughter's overdose attracts the attention of child services. She reunites with her estranged m...

Home Sweet Home
2013
as Sara's Mother (voice)
A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a killer inside.

Still Mine
2012
as Margaret
Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's concer...

Christmas Magic
2011
as Betsy
Carrie Bishop, a successful event planner in New York City, is left unconscious after a car accident. In order to "pass over" to Heaven, she must help...

Too Late to Say Goodbye
2009
as Lily Ann Holmes
Jenn Corbin seems to have it all; the perfect husband, children and life. But when this suburban wife and mother in an upscale Atlanta suburb, commits...

Hooked on Speedman
2008
as Judge
Would be filmmakers, Nick and Vince, dream of making it big and getting out of Nowheresville. Their goal is to make the next indie blockbuster of Blai...

Congratulations Daisy Graham
2007
as Daisy
Seventy-year-old Daisy Graham is having a hard day. No one in her small town wants to let her forget about the big ceremony tomorrow, a ceremony at th...

Still Small Voices
2007
as Silva Waiverly
A 911 operator receives a ghostly call from a child murdered thirty years before and becomes obsessed with unraveling the crime. What she discovers sh...

The Road to Christmas
2006
as Rheudel
High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the way to her dream Christmas-time wedding in Aspen. Una...

Skinwalkers
2006
as Nana
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...

Love Thy Neighbor
2006
as Micky Gallaghan
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband ...

Neil
2005
as Kate
Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astra...

More Sex & the Single Mom
2005
as Valerie
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage da...

The Limit
2004
as Julie
An undercover drug agent (Claire Forlani) has been "in" too long. the line between her job and her assumed lifestyle as girlfriend to the crime boss (...

Sex & the Single Mom
2003
as Valerie
Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarit...

Men with Brooms
2002
as Eva Foley
A decade ago, curler Chris Cutter disappeared suddenly on the verge of stardom, dropping his curling stones to the bottom of a lake and leaving his fi...

Three and a Half
2002
as Mika, Cruella, Landlord's Wife
Three stories are created by three artists who happen to meet together on the same subway. The painter visually depicts the life of a lonely immigrant...

Cube 2: Hypercube
2002
as Mrs. Paley
Eight strangers awaken with no memory, in a puzzling cube-shaped room where the laws of physics do not always apply.

Snap Decision
2001
as Moderator
Inspired by a true story, a young widowed mother finds herself on trial for child pornography and abuse after allowing her best friend to photograph h...

The Last Debate
2000
as Lorraine Hampstead
A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away, ...

Three to Tango
1999
as Jenny Novak
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistake...

Resurrection
1999
as Judge Seers
A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembe...

Dash and Lilly
1999
as Society Matron
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry,...

Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms
1998
as Danielle Devreaux
With the UniSol program budget cut by the government, a gang of mercenaries takes control of the new line of Universal Soldiers for their own nefariou...

Borrowed Hearts
1997
as Bridget
Single mom Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) and her daughter Zoey pretend to be Kathleen's boss's "family" so he can close a major business deal with th...

Undue Influence
1996
as Custody Judge
When a senator's new wife is murdered, the prime suspect is his ex-wife, Laurel. Laurel's brother-in-law, lawyer Paul Madriani, still reeling from th...

Lives of Girls & Women
1996
as Aunt Elspeth
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 ...

Picture Perfect
1995
as Grandma Matilda
Two teenagers (with single parents) join their families together in order to win the grand prize in a soda company competition by pretending to be the...

Trial at Fortitude Bay
1994
as Josephine Kant
Defence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosec...

Night Owl
1993
as Station Manager
New York: Every night the mysterious "Night Owl" goes on the air with her moody radio show. She seems to have an inexplicable influence on some men; s...

The Women of Windsor
1992
as Downing
Sisters-in-law Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and Diana Spencer, the Duchess of Windsor, lead glamorous, often tumultuous lives under the watchf...

White Room
1990
as Mrs. Gentle
Norm, an aimless writer, witnesses the murder of rock video star Madelaine X and feels guilty, as he did nothing to prevent it. At Madelaine’s funeral...

Beautiful Dreamers
1990
as Agatha Haines
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radic...

Dead Ringers
1988
as Danuta
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affa...

A Conspiracy of Love
1987
as Dr. Celia Hanson
A woman's husband apparently has deserted her and their daughter. So she decides to get on with her life which might include dissolving their union an...

Overnight
1986
as Alison
An out of work actor takes a role in a vampire porno.

Letting Go
1985
Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitabl...
Islands
1984
A boy goes to an island

Special People
1984
as Mrs. Hasselman
Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into th...

Trapped
1982
as Miriam Chatwill
A group of college students accidentally see a local redneck kill his wife's lover. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with the students trying to...

If You Could See What I Hear
1982
as Molly
A light comedy/love story based on the life of blind musician Tom Sullivan.
A Far Cry From Home
1981
A woman struggles with her husband.

Threshold
1981
as Wanda, Vrain's Scrub Nurse
Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Et...

Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
1981
as Kathryn 'Katie' Koob
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
The Running Man
1981
as Liz Carfield
A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.

Plague
1979
as Joan Fuller
An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes o...

Wild Horse Hank
1979
as Marlene Connors
A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest F...