Alberta Watson Filmography

Born:: March 6, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Prolific Canadian actress Alberta Watson is best known for her work in off-center independent films and the syndicated TV series La Femme Nikita. Born and raised in Toronto, Watson began performing in local theater productions as a teenager. After garnering a Genie nomination for one of her first...Read More

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Away From Her

Actors: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Filmmaker Atom Egoyan - a longtime onscreen collaborator with the gifted young thesp Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) - executive-produced Polley's directorial debut, Away from Her, starring Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy and Wendy Crewson. Adapted by Polley from a short story Read More

5/4/07
The Lookout

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino

Synopsis: A former high-school hockey star handicapped in a tragic car accident becomes an unlikely ally to a crack team of determined bank robbers in this thriller starring Jeff Daniels and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. When his promising career on the ice is suddenly cut short, former athlete Chris Pratt (Gordon-Levitt Read More

3/30/07
Angela's Eyes [TV Series]

Actors: Abigail Spencer, Lyriq Bent, Joe Cobden, Rick Roberts, Paul Popowich, Boyd Gaines, Alberta Watson

2006
A Lobster Tale

Actors: Alberta Watson, Graham Greene

Synopsis: For its quiet, low-key story, A Lobster Tale travels into a sphere of domestic life rarely glimpsed in contemporary cinema - that of small-town Americana. Colm Meaney stars as Cody Brewer, a Maine lobsterman who sinks into an economic mire when faced with a terrible catch day after day, week after Read More

2006
Citizen Duane

Actors: Douglas Smith, Devon Bostick, Alberta Watson, Jane McGregor, Donal Logue, Vivica A. Fox, Rosemary Dunsmore

Synopsis: Indie director Michael Mabbott follows his debut effort, The Life and Times of Guy Terrifico, with a sophomore feature, the quirky underdog comedy-drama Citizen Duane. Douglas Smith plays Duane Balfour, one of the sons in a family known for fighting impossible battles against tremendous odds. When Read More

2006
24: Season 04

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, William Devane, Alberta Watson, Nestor Serrano, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: Season four of the wildly successful "real-time" adventure series 24 begins some 18 months at the end of season three. John Keeler (Geoff Pierson) has succeeded David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) as president of the United States, and the new secretary of defense is James Heller (William Devane) Read More

2005
The Prince & Me

Actors: Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller, James Fox, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: For the second time in her career, Julia Stiles plays a character romancing the Crown Prince of Denmark in The Prince & Me, a romantic wish-fulfillment fantasy from director Martha Coolidge. Far from her role as Ophelia in 2000's Hamlet, however, Stiles plays Paige, a plucky, determined college Read More

4/2/04
Some Things That Stay

Actors: Katie Boland, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Zegers, Alberta Watson

Synopsis: Gail Harvey's Some Things That Stay stars Katie Boland as a teenager whose adolescence is complicated by her bohemian family and their resistance to the cultural mores of Eisenhower-era America. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2004
MISSING: Season 01

Actors: Gloria Reuben, Catarina Scorsone, Dean McDermott, Justina Machado, Alberta Watson

2003
Guilt by Association

Actors: Karen Glave, Elisa Moolecherry, Mercedes Ruehl, Alex Carter, Alberta Watson

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-cable Guilt by Association was the first "original" movie to be presented by the Court TV network. Mercedes Ruehl stars as Susan Walker, a widowed nurse with two kids and a disreputable boyfriend named Russell (Alex Carter). Unbeknownst to Susan, Russell has Read More

2002
The Wild Dogs

Actors: Anca Androne, Rachel Blanchard, Visinel Burcea, Mihai Calota, Marcel Unguriano Catalin

Synopsis: Wasting no time after shooting his 2003 Sundance Film Festival entry The Event, director Thom Fitzgerald returned to Romania, the country that served as the setting for his 2001 Canadian-TV film Wolf Girl, for this cerebral study of commerce, camaraderie, and degradation. The Wild Dogs explores Read More

2002
Irish Eyes

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, John Novak, Wings Hauser, Torri Higginson, Alberta Watson

2002
Hedwig and The Angry Inch

Actors: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt

Synopsis: Adapted from the hit off-Broadway musical of the same name is this tale of an "internationally ignored" rock & roll singer who hails from Communist Berlin and who dreams of becoming an American sensation. Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell), born a boy named Hansel, is raised by a single mother Read More

7/20/01
After the Harvest

Actors: Sam Shepard, Nadia Litz, Alberta Watson, Liane Balaban, Evan Sabba

Synopsis: The made-for-cable drama After the Harvest was based on Martha Ostenso's 1927 novel Wild Geese, and was first broadcast in Canada under that title on March 4, 2001. Sam Shepard heads the cast as ill-tempered Canadian farmer Caleb Gare, who tyrannically treats his family like slaves, forcing them Read More

2001
Tart

Actors: Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Mischa Barton, Alberta Watson

Synopsis: Cat Storm (Dominique Swain) is a bored high school girl in New York City who follows her petulant, rich friends from one coming-of-age adventure to another. They experiment with cruelty, rudeness, brazenness, and idiocy before moving onto sex and drugs. Cat's best friend, Delilah (Bijou Phillips) Read More

2001
The Art of Woo

Actors: Sook-Yin Lee, Adam Beach, Joel S. Keller, Alberta Watson, John Gilbert

Synopsis: Toronto-based indie filmmaker Helen Lee spins this frothy romantic comedy about an ersatz glamour girl who unexpectedly gets what she wants. Concealing her working-class upbringing, young, ambitious Alessa Woo (Sook-Yin Lee) poses as a high-rolling Asian heiress, even though she lives in a Read More

2001
La Femme Nikita: Season 05

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: As originally conceived, La Femme Nikita was to have ended its run with its season-four "Lady or the Tiger" finale. But when thousands of viewers wrote in to the USA network demanding that the series come to a more dramatically satisfying denouement, the series was renewed for a fifth and final Read More

2001
Deeply

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Alberta Watson, Brent Carver

Synopsis: On a remote island in Nova Scotia, teenaged Claire (Julia Brendler) slowly befriends Celia (Lynn Redgrave), an eccentric novelist who is working on a manuscript. The manuscript, which is set a half-century ago, tells the story of Silly (Kirsten Dunst), a young woman who tried to leave the island Read More

2000
Desire

Actors: Katja Riemann, Zachary Bennett, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alberta Watson

Synopsis: In this offbeat thriller, Halley Fischer (Katja Riemann) is a schoolteacher at an elementary school in Winnipeg where children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Francis (Zachary Bennett) is a single father and classical pianist who supplements his income playing in cocktail Read More

2000
La Femme Nikita: Season 04

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: It appears as though secret agent Nikita (Peta Wilson) has been permanently "reprogrammed" for evil rather than good as La Femme Nikita launches its fourth season. Hoping to save Nikita from herself -- not to mention the retribution of the covert anti-terrorist organization Section One -- her Read More

2000
La Femme Nikita: Season 03

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Reluctant spy Nikita (Peta Wilson) continues to perform acts of counterterrorism merely to save her own skin as La Femme Nikita launches its third season. The opening episode finds Nikita trying to ascertain the whereabouts of her partner and lover, Michael Samuelle (Roy Dupuis) -- even while her Read More

1999
La Femme Nikita: Season 02

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Eugene Robert Glazer, Alberta Watson, Matthew Ferguson

Synopsis: Season one of La Femme Nikita ended on a cliffhanger of sorts, as heroine Nikita (Peta Wilson), who has been forced on threat of death to join the covert anti-terrorist organization Section One, was given the opportunity to escape her penury by her fellow agent, and lover, Michael Samuelle (Roy Dupuis Read More

1998
La Femme Nikita: Gray

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: The Registry, a computer program listing all Section One members throughout the world, is stolen by a terrorist who intends to auction off the list to the highest bidder. Tracking the terrorist to Prague, Michael (Roy Dupuis) discovers that the list has been planted on a supposedly innocent Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Treason

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) is convinced that a traitorous "mole" in Section One is trying to sabotage plans to capture and deport homicidal uranium smuggler Suba (Von Flores). As it turns out, the mole is being forced to betray his country to save the life of his son. Risking her own "cancellation," Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Escape

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Anxious to escape the clutches of Section One without being "canceled" in the process, Nikita (Peta Wilson) is open to the plan being hatched by a fellow operative. If all goes well, Nikita and her comrade will be able to flee without danger, and their files will be completely eradicated. Will Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Mother

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) poses as the long-lost daughter of Helen Wicke (Alberta Watson), a sociopath who runs a vicious arms-dealing operation with her husband, John (Wayne Best). It's all part of a scheme hatched by Operations (Eugene Robert Glazer) to retrieve a stolen nuclear trigger. Not Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Rescue

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: The Section One team is forced to abandon a wounded Michael (Roy Dupuis) after a botched operation in Eastern Europe. Nikita (Peta Wilson) is all for returning to rescue Michael, but is told that such an undertaking would be "too risky." (Hmmm...Why hasn't such a possibility ever bothered Nikita's Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Love

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) and Michael (Roy Dupuis) pose as husband-and-wife mercenaries. Their mission is to capture an elusive chemical-weapons terrorist. Will this assignment add an additional strain to Nikita and Michael's relationship? There isn't much time to ponder this possibility during the Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Choice

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the previous episode "Gray," Nikita (Peta Wilson) is still romantically involved with architect Gray Wellman (Callum Keith Rennie) -- and in fact, Gray is the first and only true love of her life. Alas, if she doesn't dump Wellman and concentrate all her attention on Section Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Voices

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: While on an undercover mission, Nikita (Peta Wilson) is attacked by a serial rapist/killer. Having long been in pursuit of the perpetrator, Detective Marco O'Brien (Stephen Shellen) demands that Nikita testify in court. But if she talks, her cover will be blown and Section One's mission to Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Missing

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) discovers that one of the three thieves who have stolen a valuable computer chip is Steven Wolfe (Christopher Kennedy). Under any other circumstances, Wolfe would be dead meat -- except that he happens to be the long-estranged son of Nikita's superior Operations (Eugene Robert Glazer Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Brainwash

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: A terrorist intends to use a cache of virtual-reality "phasing shells" as part of a mysterious master plan. To find out what the villain is up to, Nikita (Peta Wilson) agrees to test a captured VR shell. Alas, like so many others, Nikita becomes addicted to the thrills provided by the shell. But Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita [TV Series]

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Eugene Robert Glazer, Alberta Watson, Matthew Ferguson

Synopsis: Premiering January 13, 1997, on the USA network, the hour-long espionage series La Femme Nikita was based on the 1990 French film of the same name -- or, to be more accurate, it was based on the 1993 American remake, Point of No Return. Peta Wilson starred as Nikita, a convicted criminal serving a Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Season 01

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Lawrence Bayne, Matthew Ferguson, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Given a choice between serving a life sentence for a crime she didn't commit and working as a secret agent for the covert government anti-terrorist organization Section One, a young woman known only as Nikita (Peta Wilson) reluctantly accepts the latter option as La Femme Nikita begins its first Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: War

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: The Registry, a file listing the whereabouts of all Section One agents, is now in the hands of the Red Cell, a terrorist group. As the Red Cell minions begin stalking agents all over the world, Michael (Roy Dupuis) makes an astonishing security error by informing Nikita (Peta Wilson) where Section Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Recruit

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) is ordered by her manipulative superior Madeline (Alberta Watson) to evaluate the performance of Section One recruit Karyn (Felicity Waterman). If Karyn passes inspection, she will be welcomed into the organization; if she isn't quite ready, however, Karyn will be "canceled" Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Innocent

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Birkoff (Matthew Ferguson) is alerted to the fact that a nuclear bomb is being smuggled into the United States. The only witness to this operation is Rudy (Maury Chaykin), a mentally challenged pizza deliverer who accidentally spotted the smugglers at a large municipal airport. When Rudy is Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Gambit

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Kessler (Harris Yulin), an international terrorist and master of disguise, plans to use radioactive cobalt to poison a major city's water system. Madeline (Alberta Watson) subjects Kessler to intense interrogation, only to have the tables turned during a grim psychological game of one-upmanship. Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Noise

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Birkoff (Matthew Fergusan) is traumatized when he forced to make his first kill. Madeline (Alberta Watson) puts Birkoff in "abeyance," ostensibly until he has recovered sufficiently to be of value to Section One. Knowing full well that abeyance is one step short of "cancellation," Nikita (Peta Wilson Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Obsessed

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: To retrieve "The Book," a file crucial to Section One security, Michael (Roy Dupuis) goes after David Fanning (Douglas O'Keeffe), the terrorist who has stolen The Book, and intends to turn it over to the enemy. As part of his strategy, Michael becomes close to Lisa Fanning (Yvonne Scio), David's Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Charity

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) is suspicious of Section One's motives when she is assigned to romance celebrated charity fundraiser Alec Chandler (Simon MacCorkindale); after all, if Alec is only a "money launderer" as her superiors claim, why go to the trouble of putting him under surveillance? Things Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Mercy

Synopsis: Section One must prevent a terrorist named Tyler (Richard Clarkin) from deploying a lethal and untraceable polymer explosive. As part of this operation, Nikita (Peta Wilson) and Michael (Roy Dupuis) must save the inventor of the explosive, Stanley Shays (Sean Whalen), from Tyler's clutches. When Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Verdict

Synopsis: Introduced in the earlier episode "Friend," international peace broker Mijovich (David Calderisi) has become head of a European nation that is recovering from a recent and very bitter civil war. Assigned to protect Mijovich at his inaugural ball, Nikita (Peta Wilson) and Michael (Roy Dupuis) are Read More

1997
The Sweet Hereafter

Actors: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Bruce Greenwood, Gabrielle Rose

Synopsis: Atom Egoyan's haunting adaptation of the Russell Banks novel The Sweet Hereafter was the Canadian filmmaker's most successful film to date, taking home a Special Grand Jury Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and scoring a pair of Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. Restructured Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Simone

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) poses as a recruit for Glass Curtain, a terrorist organization that picks its members from Internet chat rooms. Welcomed into the Glass Curtain fold, Nikita discovers that the group is holding former Section One operative Simone (Mung-Ling Tsui) captive. Complicating matters Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Friend

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Assigned to protect peacemaking politician Jovan Mijovich (David Calderisi), Nikita (Peta Wilson) meets a woman (Marnie McPhail) who claims to be her childhood friend Julie. Defying orders from Operations (Eugene Robert Glazer) to "cancel" Julie, Nikita goes to great lengths to protect the woman. Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Nikita

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: This debut episode of the TV series La Femme Nikita adheres to the premise set up by the 1990 French theatrical feature (and its 1993 American remake) -- up to a point, that is. Falsely accused of murdering a cop and sentenced to life, sexy street punk Nikita (Peta Wilson) is offered a "second Read More

1997
Shoemaker

Actors: Alberta Watson

Synopsis: Carey, a dim-bulbed and lonesome cobbler and his bookkeeper-pal Paul run the broken-down Mr. Happy Shoe Repair. Paul is well aware of Carey's mental deficit and so quietly acts as his guardian. One day Carey meets a beautiful woman. Unfortunately, he is unable to find her again, and he grows Read More

1996
Seeds of Doubt

Actors: Peter Coyote, Joe Lando, Alberta Watson

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, journalist Jennifer Kingsley (Alberta Watson) believes that artist Raymond Crawford (Joe Lando) has been railroaded when he's put behind bars for the murder of a model. While Jennifer is convinced of Raymond's innocence and wants her former boyfriend Henry Dexter (Peter Coyote Read More

1996
Sweet Angel Mine

Synopsis: Set in the wild forests of Nova Scotia, this Canadian psychodrama deals with the tragic travails of a young Englishman who has come there to find his long-lost father. But instead of a family reunion, he ends up entangled with a beautiful young girl and her mother after the girl sees him bathing Read More

1996
Hackers

Actors: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Lawrence Mason

Synopsis: In this high-tech thriller, Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) has been fascinated with computers all his life; at the age of 11, he was able to break into the computer network of several top Wall Street investment and banking firms, and he nearly caused a major stock market crash in the process. As Read More

1995
Threat of Innocence

Actors: Richard Crenna, Beverly D'Angelo

1994
Spanking the Monkey

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson, Benjamin Hendrickson, Carla Gallo, Matthew Puckett

Synopsis: David O. Russell burst onto the scene with this challenging and controversial film about an introverted college student and the incestuous disaster of a summer that follows his freshman year. Ray Aibelli (Jeremy Davies) returns home for what is supposed to be a short visit with his family prior to Read More

1994
Relentless: Mind of a Killer

Actors: Tim Matheson, Alberta Watson, Giancarlo Esposito, Claudia Christian, Kurt Fuller

Synopsis: After a patient murders his wife, a distraught criminal psychologist resigns from his profession. But when police present him with a puzzling murder, he goes back into practice to help solve the crime and in so doing, comes to terms with his own terrible tragedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Zebrahead

Actors: Lois Bendler, Michael Rapaport, N'Bushe Wright, Paul Butler, DeShonn Castle, Candy Ann Brown, Dan Ziskie, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: An interracial romance sparks social upheaval in this indie drama from first-time writer/director Anthony Drazan. Jewish high school student Zack Glass (Michael Rapaport) lives with his widowed, womanizing father (Ray Sharkey) in one of the nicer areas of Detroit. His pop and grandfather own a Read More

10/23/92
Law & Order: Skin Deep

Synopsis: Law & Order launched its third season (and its new Wednesday-night time slot) with a complex murder mystery involving a "high-fashion" photographer who sidelines as a pimp. Found murdered in his studio, the photographer has left behind a rather sizeable address book, crammed with the names and Read More

1992
The Hitman

Actors: Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Al Waxman, Alberta Watson, Salim Grant

Synopsis: Chuck Norris stars in this derivative action film (directed by his brother, Aaron Norris) which bears more than a passing similarity to Steven Seagal's Marked for Death. Norris plays Cliff Garret, a Seattle cop who is mortally wounded in a drug bust. Garret's condition is grave but he manages to Read More

10/25/91
Law & Order: His Hour Upon the Stage

Synopsis: A frozen corpse, dressed in a tuxedo, is found in a dumpster. It soon develops that the dead man was killed five years earlier, and that he was a prominent Broadway producer. The detectives and the DA's office move quickly to prosecute the most likely suspect, the victim's hated show-biz rival. Frank Converse Read More

1991
Destiny to Order

Actors: Stephen Ouimette, Alberta Watson, Michael Ironside

Synopsis: Versatile Canadian actor and voiceover artist Stephen Ouimette is afforded top billing in Destiny to Order. Ouimette plays a successful author, currently suffering from writer's block. As he hacks away at his computer, the machine is struck by lightning. Suddenly, all of Ouimette's fictional Read More