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Christine Willes

Christine Willes

Acting1955Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Biography

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Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper. She is also known for her role as Granny Goodness on the CW series Smallville.

Willes also played the recurring role of Agent Karen E. Kosseff, a government counselor, on the TV show The X-Files. She also appears in a minor recurring role on the show Reaper on The CW, as Gladys, a demon from Hell who works in the DMV. She was nominated for a Leo Award in 2008 for that role. Like her Dead Like Me co-star Callum Blue, she was cast as the villain Granny Goodness on The CW's Smallville's tenth and final season (Blue appeared in the previous season as Zod). She also had a small role in the award-winning film Trick r Treat starring Anna Paquin, which also featured another Dead Like Me co-star, Britt McKillip.

Christine appeared on the big screen in March, 2011 as Madam Lazar in Catherine Hardwicke’s production of Red Riding Hood – the first studio picture to be directed by a woman, shot by a woman and starring a woman (Amanda Seyfreid). She has won three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, and both produced and starred in Jasmina Reza’s The Unexpected Man. She directed Metamorphoses at Pacific Theatre in August 2008, and played Clara Epp in Touchstone Theatre's 2010 World Premiere of Sally Stubb's Herr Beckmann's People.

Acting History

2024
2023
Guiding Emily
as Martha
Firefly Lane
TVas Edna1 eps
Goosebumps
TVas Madame Zelda1 eps
Superman & Lois
TVas Governor Kerry Wexler1 eps
2022
Upload
TVas Janet Boxner4 eps
2021
Turner & Hooch
TVas Senator Helen Pine1 eps
Family Law
TVas Carole Creedy1 eps
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
TVas Eleanor Roosevelt1 eps
2019
Colours
as Nurse
The Last Bridesmaid
as Grandma Raye
2018
Little Pink House
as Sandy Beachy
The Professor
as Widow #1
The Good Doctor
TVas Vicki Spain1 eps
2016
Summer Love
as Eleanor
The X-Files
TVas Karen Kosseff / Sister Mary / Agent Karen E. Kosseff1 eps
2015
I Do, I Do, I Do
as Margaret Lorenzo
Fifty Shades of Grey
as WSU Grad Speaker / Reader
The Returned
TVas Loretta Russo3 eps
Supernatural
TVas Jenna's Grandmother1 eps
2014
Kid Cannabis
as Female Border Guard
Mountain Men
as Marion Pollard
Zapped
as Principal Mumford
If I Stay
as Nurse Davis
Two 4 One
as Dr. Sharp
The 100
TVas Vera Kane3 eps
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
TVas Vivian Lasseter
2013
Horns
as Receptionist
Lawrence & Holloman
as Holloman's Mother
2011
To the Mat
as Cecile Closum
Red Riding Hood
as Madame Lazar
Sucker Punch
as Reception Nurse / Designer
2010
Smallville
TVas Granny Goodness3 eps
2009
Sorority Wars
as Mary Lee Snow
The Good Wife
TVas Lanie1 eps
2007
Trick 'r Treat
as Mrs. Henderson
Write & Wrong
as Marty's Assistant
Snowglobe
as Joy
Flash Gordon
TVas Edie Atkins
Reaper
TVas Gladys - DMV Demon15 eps
2006
The Wicker Man
as Sister Violet
Psych
TVas Ms. Foote1 eps
2005
FBI: Negotiator
as Mrs. Branch
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
as Arlene Sheehy
2004
2003
Dead Like Me
TVas Delores Herbig26 eps
2002
Dark Angel
TVas Church Lady1 eps
2000
Sole Survivor
as Mercy Ealing
1999
Hope Island
TVas Mrs. Salvo
1998
Outrage
as Judge
1997
The Outer Limits
TVas Nurse Yvette1 eps
1996
Big Bully
as Teacher - 1970
For Hope
as Nurse Stark
1992
Child of Rage
as Teacher (uncredited)
Shame
as Claire
1989
21 Jump Street
TVas Nurse1 eps

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
9/15/1955(70 years old)
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada