Alberta Watson, well known to television audiences for her Gemini award-nominated role as Madeline on _"La Femme Nikita" , which took home the Best Film Award at the 2009 Melbourne International Animation Festival. In 2008, Alberta Watson received a Career Achievement Award from the Boston-based Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Watson died on March 21, 2015 due to complications from cancer at Kensington Hospice in Toronto; she was 60 years old.
Her name was the basis for the character Alberta Green, played by Tamara Tunie , on "24" . Ironically, Watson joined the "24" cast for the shows fourth season.
Lived in New Jersey for eight years with her husband until they divorced and she then returned to Toronto.
Grew up in Toronto with her mother Grace, a factory worker, and her brother.
(July 2011) Filming CWs Nikita, TV series (Season 2) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
(July 2010) Filming in Calgary, Alberta (Canada)
[2008],If you want to be an actor, drop out of school and go be a hippie [said,with straight-face as a crowd of Acting for Film and Television college,students erupted in laughter, 2008],I have an entirely different career now than the one I began with at 16.
