Mary Walsh

Television

No stranger to television audiences, Mary Walsh may be best known for her work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC’s wildly popular take on current affairs. The series, which she also created, earned her many of her numerous Gemini awards and showcased her dynamic range of characters, including the flagrantly outspoken ‘Marg Delahunty’.

Mary enjoyed 22 years as one of the hosts of This Hour Has 22 Minutes on CBC, a show she also created.

The original This Hour Has 22 Minutes cast included Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Mary Walsh and Greg Thomey when it debuted in 1993.

Hatching Matching and Dispatching aired for two seasons in 2005 and 2006. Mary played Mamie Lou Furey, the matriarch of a family in Cats Gut Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador who owned a combination ambulance, wedding and funeral business

Mary had a great time as a recent guest on Chopped Canada on the Food Network.

Walsh wrote, produced and starred in the Gemini award winning Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, and more recent television credits include CBC’s Republic of Doyle, Global's Rookie Blue, and HBO Canada’s Sensitive Skin, for which she was nominated for a 2017 Canadian Screen Award.

Television appearances:

A Christmas Fury – Dir. Warren Sonoda/CBC
Slasher – Dir. Craig David Wallace/Netflix/Chiller
Rookie Blue – Dir. Greg Smith/Global/ABC
Sensitive Skin – Dir. Don McKellar/The Movie Network
*Rise Up (Pilot) – Dir. Jeff Beeley/Global
Republic of Doyle – Dir. Mike Clattenburg/CBC
Murdoch Mysteries – Shaftsbury Films/Bravo
The Quality of Life – Dir. John Fawcett/Haddock Entertainment
The One That Got Away – Dir. Stacey Stewart Curtis/Pope Productions
Sophie – Dir. Eric Tessier/CBC
Wind In The Willows – Dir. Rachel Talalay/Box TV/BBC/CBC
Hatching, Matching & Dispatching – Dir. Henry Sarwer-Foner/CBC
*This Hour Has 22 Minutes (22 seasons) – Salter Street Films
Random Passage – Dir. John N. Smith/Blue Heaven Prod.
Bleacher Bums – Dir. Saul Rubinek/Paramount TV/Showtime
Our Daily Break – Dir. Christian Murray/CBC
Dooley Gardens – Dir. Giles Walker
Lexx – Salter Street Films/Chum
Emily of New Moon – CINAR/Salter Street Films
Major Crime – Dir. Brad Turner
The New Adventures of Robin Hood – Baltic Ventures International Baltic Ventures International
Codco – Dir. David Acomba/John Blanchard
The Wonderful Grand Band – CBC
Up At Ours (mini-series) – CBC
Peep Show – CBC

*Created by Mary Walsh

Cathy Jones and Mary Walsh have been long time friends and collaborators.

The early 2000s cast of This Hour Has 22 Minutes included Mary Walsh, Cathy Jones, Greg Thomey and the first cast change when Colin Mochrie joined on after much success as an improvisational comedian.

Since Marg Delahunty’s debut in the 90s, the ‘Warrior Princess’ has been popular with audiences from Coast to Coast.

After Mary Walsh was a theatre student at Ryerson University in Toronto, she founded the CODCO comedy troupe with friends Cathy Jones, Andy Jones, Greg Malone, and Tommy Sexton. The troupe started touring a series of stage shows, and eventually Codco evolved into a CBC Television show and aired from 1987 until 1992, creating 63 episodes.

Mary Walsh’s recent cameo appearance on the Police drama Rookie Blue (Global)

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