Cynthia Dale

Cynthia Dale
Born	Cynthia Ciurluini (1960-08-11) 11 August 1960 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater	Michael Power/St. Joseph High School
Spouse	Peter Mansbridge (m. 1998)
Children	William 1999 (age 25–26)
Relatives	Jennifer Dale

Cynthia Dale (born 11 August 1960) is a Canadian television actress and stage performer. She is best known for her role as lawyer Olivia Novak in the 1987–94 television drama Street Legal.

Biography

Dale was born Cynthia Ciurluini in Canada. She attended Michael Power/St. Joseph High School. She is the sister of Canadian actress Jennifer Dale. Since 1998 she has been married to CBC News anchor Peter Mansbridge. They have one child, Will.

She first entered the acting world in 1965, when she went alongside her sister to an audition. In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in a number of movies and stage productions. She appeared as Patty in the 1981 Canadian slasher film, My Bloody Valentine. She appeared in New York in an off-Broadway play in 1987, and in 1983 first appeared at the Stratford Festival, where she has headlined several shows (mostly musicals) in the 2000s. Cynthia and Jennifer Dale once appeared together in a CBC variety special. She starred in the 1985 movie Heavenly Bodies, where she plays the owner of an aerobics dance studio.

She was a member of the judging panel of the Canadian TV show Triple Sensation in 2007.

Filmography

Movies

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	My Bloody Valentine	Patty
1983	Snow		Short
1984	Heavenly Bodies	Samantha Blair
1986	The Boy in Blue	Margaret
1987	Moonstruck	Sheila
2008	A Broken Life	Carla

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980-81	The Wayne & Shuster Superspecial		2 Episodes: Cyrano de Bergerac, The Swan Lake Murders
1986	The Campbells	Sarah Greener	2 Episodes: Tales of the Canadas, Heaven Sent
1987	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	Elizabeth	1 Episode: The Liberators
	Seeing Things	Marlena	1 Episode, Eye of the Beholder
	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Kelly	1 Episode: World's Oldest Motive
	Adderly	Lisping Woman	1 Episode, Midnight in Morocco
	Sadie and Son	Paula Melvin	TV Movie
1987-88	Night Heat	Allana Pride / Gloria	2 Episodes: Set for Life, All the King's Horses
1988-94	Street Legal	Olivia Novak	107 Episodes
1989	Baby Cakes	Olivia	TV Movie
1990	War of the Worlds	Tila	1 Episode: The Obelisk
1992	In the Eyes of a Stranger	Nancy	TV Movie
1995	At the Midnight Hour	Jullian	TV Movie
	Taking the Falls	Terry Lane	13 Episodes
	Spenser: A Savage Place	Candy Sloane	TV Movie
1998	Witness to Yesterday	Marie Antoinette	1 Episode: Marie Antoinette
	Thanks of a Grateful Nation	Lisa Tuite	TV Movie
1999	P.T. Barnum	Charity	TV Movie
2001	The Pretender 2001	Agent Zane	TV Movie
	The Industry	Susan Doyle	1 Episode: Husband & Wife
2002	Trudeau	Opening Hostess	TV Movie
2009	Christmas Dreams	Rose Lunette	TV Movie
2010-11	Baxter	Belinda Nightingale	3 Episodes: Audition Fever, Cindy and the Prince of Rock, Finale
2011	The Listener	Diane Feeny	1 Episode: Eye of the Storm
2014	Working the Engels	Lytton Schultz	1 Episode: Family Therapy

External links

• Cynthia Dale at IMDb
• Cynthia Dale on Twitter