Cara Ricketts

Cara Ricketts is an actress, best known for her roles as Mary Lacroix in Anne with an E^[1] and Lilly Rue in the 2019 revival of Street Legal.^[2]

Cara Ricketts
Alma mater	Canadian Film Centre Stratford Festival Humber College
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present

Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada^[3] she is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre's Actors Conservatory,^[4] the Stratford Festival's Birmingham Conservatory ^[5] and the theatre program at Humber College.^[3]
She first became known as a stage actress, appearing in 2005 productions of Joseph Jomo Pierre's Born Ready^[6] and Stephen Adly Guirgis's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.^[7] Her later stage roles included Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream,^[8] Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun,^[9] Portia in the Stratford Festival production of Julius Caesar,^[10] Queenie in The Wild Party^[11] Ruth in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming,^[3] and Hedda in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler^[12] She received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Leading Actress (Musical Theatre) in 2016 for The Wild Party, and won The 2020 ACTRA Award for her performance as Mary Lacroix in Anne with an E

Her film roles have included Across the Line,^[13] Jean of the Joneses and Stanleyville.^[14] On television, she has had supporting or guest roles in Orphan Black, Titans, The Resident, Whatever, Linda, The Book of Negroes and Revenge of the Black Best Friend.

She won an ACTRA Award for Outstanding Performance, Female from the Toronto chapter of ACTRA in 2020 for Anne with an E.^[15]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Gathering	Raelle Tucker	TV Mini Series
2008	The Tower	Chelle Jenkins	TV Movie
	Air Crash Investigation	Cydya Smith	Episode: "Behind Closed Doors"
2010	As You Like It	Celia	TV Short
2013	Murdoch Mysteries	Rosina Denman	Episode: "Murdoch of the Living Dead"
	Saving Hope	Allison Davis	Episode: "All Things Must Pass"
	Satisfaction	Pretty Paramedic	Episode: "The Blackout Cometh"
2015	Whatever, Linda	Didi De May	web series
	The Book of Negroes	Bertilda	Episode #1.3 Episode #1.4
2017	Orphan Black	Brie	Episode: "Manacled Slim Wrists"
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Mrs. Salerno	Episode: "American Dream"
2018	Titans	Ms. Bond	Episode: "Origins"
	Frankie Drake Mysteries	Dot	Episode: "Dressed to Kill"
2018-2019	Anne with an E	Mary LaCroix	6 Episodes
2019	Street Legal	Lily Rue	Starring role, Tv Series: 6 episodes
2021	Departure	Dr. Lopez	4 Episodes
	The Resident	Rose Williams	8 Episodes
	Hudson & Rex	Elanie Lewis	Episode: "Sleeping Beauty"
2022	Revenge of the Black Best Friend	Cynthia	Comedy web series
2023	Manifest	Jessica Halvorsen	Episode: "Ghost Plane" Episode: "Final Boarding"

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Twelfth Night[16]	Maria
2013	Momsters Playground	Verona	Short
2014	The Anniversary	Anne
2015	Across The Line	Lori Downey
	Chameleon	Sheryse	Short
2016	Jean of the Joneses	Laura Simmons
2017	The Definites	Madison
	The Mavericks	Becky	Short
	The Meaning of Life	Nurse Sherry
2018	Emmy		Short
2021	Sometime Other than Now	Anita	Short
	Home Sweet Home Alone	Aunt Beth
	PAW Patrol: The Movie	Additional Voices	Voice role
	Stanleyville	Felicie Arkady
2022	Diaspora	Melina	Short

Videogames

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Far Cry Primal	Sayla
2018	Far Cry 5	Dr. Sarah Perkins
	Assassin's Creed Odyssey	Xenia
2019	Far Cry New Dawn	Mickey
2020	Hyper Scape	Nahari
2021	Far Cry 6	Lita
2023	Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora	Etuwa

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References

1. Hanh Nguyen, "‘Anne With an E’ Ending Sets the Stage for a Feminist and Queer-Friendly Season 3". IndieWire, July 9, 2018.
2. Norman Wilner, "TV review: Street Legal reboot is slicker, sharper and more focused than the soapy original". Now, February 26, 2019.
3. Richard Ouzounian, "People to watch in 2011: Cara Ricketts". Toronto Star, December 31, 2010.
4. "Cara Ricketts". Canadian Film Centre. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
5. "The Birmingham Conservatory" (PDF). Stratford Festival. Retrieved 2023-10-21.
6. Kamal Al-Solaylee, "A rich ride to compelling places". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2005.
7. Kamal Al-Solaylee, "Et tu, Judas?"]. The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2005.
8. Robert Cushman, "Shakespearean play is a dream realized: Inventive, disciplined, physical production". National Post, July 1, 2006.
9. J. Kelly Nestruck, "Still a shining example of American playwrighting". The Globe and Mail, October 18, 2008.
10. Declan Kelly, "Strong cast makes Festival's 'Caesar' well worth hailing". Stratford Beacon-Herald, June 8, 2009.
11. Richard Ouzounian, "Cast of musical is worth celebrating". Toronto Star, February 25, 2015.
12. Carly Maga, "This Henrik Ibsen classic makes tragedy look beautiful". Toronto Star, January 17, 2016.
13. Peter Howell, "Hoods, heroes and humbled humanity". Toronto Star, April 15, 2016.
14. Barry Hertz, "Absurd satire Stanleyville is Canadian version of Squid Game: fast, cheap and out of control: Audiences who like their boundaries to be teased, tested and sometimes tortured will fall deep into Stanleyville’s warren of weirdness". The Globe and Mail, May 5, 2022.
15. Debra Yeo, "‘Schitt’s Creek’ claims ensemble prize at Toronto ACTRA Awards while individual acting awards go to ‘Anne With an E’ co-stars". Toronto Star, February 23, 2020.
16. Stratford Festival's filmed production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Retrieved 2023-10-21 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2198263/?ref_=nm_flmg_tp_t
17. Cara's IMDB Page, Cara Ricketts's IMDB Page. Retrieved 2023-10-21

External links

• Cara Ricketts at IMDb