Karen Robinson (born February 29, 1968) is a Canadian actress. She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in a Guest Role in a Drama Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 for her appearance on the television series Mary Kills People. She also won a 2021 Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Schitt's Creek cast.
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Early life
Born in England, raised in Jamaica, Robinson moved to Drumheller, Alberta with her family as a teenager. She was active in the arts in childhood, including singing in choirs, acting in school plays and reciting at poetry readings, and studied communication and theatre at Mount Royal College in Calgary before beginning to work as a professional actress in the early 1990s.
Theatrical work
On stage, she originated the role of Marie-Joseph Angélique in Lorena Gale's play Angélique in 1998, for which she received a Betty Mitchell Award nomination for Best Actress in 1998. In 2003, she originated the role of Lily in the Stratford Festival production of Timothy Findley's play Shadows; the following year, she played Clytemnestra in three concurrent plays, Aeschylus's Agamemnon, Jean Giraudoux's Electra and Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies. In 2006, she received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role in a Play (Large Theatre) for her performance in Trevor Rhone's Two Can Play.
