Alberta Watson

Faith Susan Alberta Watson (born March 6, 1955 or 1956) is a Canadian movie and television series actress known professionally as Alberta Watson.
Alberta Watson was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in Toronto with her mother Grace, a factory worker, and her half-brother. She never met her father, Albert, who abandoned the family when she was a baby. She also has three other half-siblings, who lived with her grandparents.
She began performing with a local Toronto theater group, FOG, of the Bathurst Street United Church at age 15. She took a workshop for the Hair musical. While doing this workshop she did Hamlet, which was directed by René Bonnière who later directed her in La Femme Nikita.
Watson quit high school, East York Collegiate, when she was 15. She studied acting at Ryerson Polytech. When she was 16, FOG disbanded and she moved in with her 27-year old boyfriend to a farm where they lived with friends and other people from FOG. She broke up with her boyfriend and moved back to Toronto at age 17 to pursue acting. Her mother, Grace, died when she was 19 of Hodgkin's disease.
Watson got her first role at age 19 in a CBC movie called Honor Thy Father. Early in her