biography of Catherine Mary Stewart

biography of Catherine Mary Stewart

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biography of Catherine Mary Stewart

Stewart in 2011
Born
Catherine Mary Nursall

22 April 1959 (age 66)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Occupation

Actress

Years active

1980–present
Spouses
John Findlater
(m. 1983; div. 1985)
Richard Allerton
 
(m. 1992)

Children

2

Catherine Mary Stewart 

(née Catherine Nursall; born 22 April 1959) is a Canadian actress Her film roles include The Apple, Night of the Comet, The Last Starfighter and Weekend at Bernie's. She was also the original Kayla Brady in Days of Our Lives.

Early life

Stewart was born on 22 April 1959, in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Mary (Stewart) and John Ralph Nursall. Her parents taught at the University of Alberta, her mother a physiology teaching assistant and her father a biology professor. Stewart attended Strathcona Composite High School. She first took jazz dance lessons, and moved to London after high school to study dance and general performing arts, and where she passed the audition for her first movie, The Apple

Career

In 1980, Stewart landed a role in The Apple, a musical science fiction cult film  During the production of The Apple, the director Menahem Golan took issue with her original name Mary Nursall and insisted she change it, which she did using her mother's maiden name. 

After moving to Los Angeles, she obtained a role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, playing the original Kayla Brady from January 1982 to December 1983. She also auditioned for projects like Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, against Jamie Lee Curtis In 1984, she starred in two science fiction feature films, The Last Starfighter as Maggie Gordon and Night of the Comet as Regina Belmont. She later played a leading role in the teen comedy Mischief.[5][unreliable source?][6]

In the mid-1980s, Stewart appeared in two miniseries: Hollywood Wives (1985) and Sins (1986), where she played the younger version of Joan Collins's character. She made guest appearances on television series such as Knight Rider, Hotel, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Outer Limits. She starred in several made-for-TV movies such as Murder by the Book (1987), Passion and Paradise (1989), Perfect Harmony (1991) and Ordeal in the Arctic (1993). In 1989, she appeared as Gwen Saunders in the comedy film Weekend at Bernie's. She, too, had a small role on The A-Team, season 2 episode titled Steel.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, she scaled back her appearances while raising her family. After her children had grown, she again started appearing in television and film roles, and expressed an interest in directing. In 2010, she appeared in the film A Christmas Sno In 2016, she directed the short movie A Walk to Remember She starred in the Hallmark holidays movies Rock N' Roll Christmas in 2019  and A Christmas Comeback in 2020

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Personal life

She is the sister of Alan Nursall, a scientist and media personality who reports on science news for the Canadian TV series Daily Planet and the Discovery Channel. Another brother, John Nursall, is a freelance writer and TV/film documentary director and producer. 

She was married to actor John Findlater in 1983 and divorced in 1985. She married Richard Allerton in 1992. She has a daughter and a son and lived in Brooklyn, New York, as of 2013. 

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
1980 Powder Heads Belinda
1980 The Apple Bibi
1981 Nighthawks Sales Girl In London
1982 The Beach Girls The Surfer Girl
1984 The Last Starfighter Maggie Gordon
1984 Night of the Comet Regina Belmont
1984 Terror in the Aisles Herself
1985 Mischief Bunny Miller
1987 Scenes from the Goldmine Debi DiAngelo
1987 Dudes Jessie
1987 Nightflyers Miranda Dorlac
1988 World Gone Wild Angie
1989 Riding the Edge Maggie Cole
1989 Weekend at Bernie's Gwen Saunders
1991 The Psychic Laurel
1991 Cafe Romeo Lia
1994 Samurai Cowboy Jessie Collins
1995 Number One Fan Holly Newman
1995 Out of Annie's Past Annie Carver
1999 Dead Silent Julia Kerbridge
2000 Reaper Sonya Lehrman
2007 The Girl Next Door Mrs. Moran
2008 The Attic Kim Callan
2010 Perry St Elaine
2010 Rising Stars Ms. Cage
2010 A Christmas Snow Kathleen
2013 AmeriQua Mrs. Edwards
2017 Imitation Girl Mrs. Phan

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