Debra McGrath

Acting

Debra McGrath

Born

1954-07-05 (72)

Place of birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Debra McGrath (born July 5th, 1954) is a Canadian actress and comedian. She first started her career with three years as a member of The Second City in Toronto, Ontario, from 1983 to 1985, where she was a writer and actress, and eventually a director. She was best known for a take-off of Marilyn Monroe, and the song Condoms are a Girl's Best Friend. During the late 1980s, she appeared with Second City at anniversary, comedy festival, and Club Soda performances. In 1990, she co-created My Talk Show with Linda Kash, a sitcom featuring a talk show broadcast from the host's basement. The series ran for one year, with fifty-nine episodes. She was also a co-writer of the Canadian Women's Televis…

Known for

Murdoch Mysteries poster
7.7

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Murdoch Mysteries

2008

Degrassi poster
7.6

The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.

Degrassi

2001

Private Eyes poster
7.3

Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

Private Eyes

2016

Due South poster
7.6

Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.

Due South

1994

The Wonderful World of Disney poster
6.9

Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984-85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's recent purchase of the network. From 1997 until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Subsequently, ABC continued the series as an occasional special presentation.

The Wonderful World of Disney

1997

Peep and the Big Wide World poster
8.5

Peep is a newly hatched chicken who goes on daily adventures with his friends Chirp the robin and Quack the duck. The pals live a large urban park they call "the big wide world" and is the setting for all their lessons. Peep learns specific science concepts on his travels, while the series also incorporates real kids playing and experimenting in their own big wide worlds.

Peep and the Big Wide World

2004

Film credits

2020s · 5 titles

2000s · 6 titles

Eloise at the Plaza poster
6.2

Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. Her caretaker "Nanny" watches over her while her mom is away. Then one day, while trying to figure out how to get invited to a fancy ball as well as how to meet a visiting prince, Eloise makes a new friend around her age! So she decides to take him on a tour of the city - and all while plotting some matchmaking hijinks for her other friends too!

Eloise at the Plaza

2003

Eloise at Christmastime poster
6.3

Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. The owner's daughter is getting married, but Eloise discovers that the fiance has devious plans to defraud kind Rachel! When her true love is revealed to be none other than Eloise's best friend Bill who works in the kitchen, Eloise goes on a mission to bring about a Christmas miracle and get the starcrossed lovers back together.. will things work out in time for a happy holiday ending?

Eloise at Christmastime

2003

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis poster
6.5

This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, DC 9/11 takes an inside look at the Bush Administration, beginning with the day of the attacks, and following the President's journey to Ground Zero, culminating with his now famous national address nine days after the attacks.

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

2003

Betsy Bubblegum's Journey Through Yummi-Land poster
NR

In this animated adventure based on the popular toy line, Betsy Bubblegum travels to Yummi-Land, a whimsical land full of sugar-coated streets and beautiful music. She quickly makes friends with the Candy, Flower and Ice Cream Pop Girls, helping them plan a big event. Betsy does all kinds of new things, like play in a band and work in a beauty salon. She discovers that it's doing her best and being a good friend that makes her the most welcome.

Betsy Bubblegum's Journey Through Yummi-Land

2007

Burnt Toast poster
8.0

An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love. The relationships depicted run the gamut: from the passionate to the fantasized, the bored and of course the dead relationship, each as recognizable as the last.

Burnt Toast

2005

Expecting poster
4.3

No overview for this movie has been given. It was a Canadian movie.

Expecting

2002

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

Murdoch Mysteries poster
7.7

A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.

Murdoch Mysteries

2008

Degrassi poster
7.6

The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.

Degrassi

2001

Private Eyes poster
7.3

Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

Private Eyes

2016

Due South poster
7.6

Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.

Due South

1994

The Wonderful World of Disney poster
6.9

Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC in 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus in 1984-85. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991 until 1997, the series aired infrequently. The program resumed a regular schedule in 1997 on the ABC fall schedule, coinciding with Disney's recent purchase of the network. From 1997 until 2008, the program aired regularly on ABC. Subsequently, ABC continued the series as an occasional special presentation.

The Wonderful World of Disney

1997

Peep and the Big Wide World poster
8.5

Peep is a newly hatched chicken who goes on daily adventures with his friends Chirp the robin and Quack the duck. The pals live a large urban park they call "the big wide world" and is the setting for all their lessons. Peep learns specific science concepts on his travels, while the series also incorporates real kids playing and experimenting in their own big wide worlds.

Peep and the Big Wide World

2004

This Is Wonderland poster
8.0

Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.

This Is Wonderland

2004

Street Legal poster
7.3

The professional and private lives of a group of young, aggressive attorneys in partnership together in a small downtown Toronto law firm. However they do not necessarily always see eye to eye on things.

Street Legal

1987

Street Legal poster
7.3

The professional and private lives of a group of young, aggressive attorneys in partnership together in a small downtown Toronto law firm. However they do not necessarily always see eye to eye on things.

Street Legal

1987

RoboCop: The Series poster
6.4

RoboCop: The Series is a 1994 television series based on the film of the same name. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2. RoboCop has several non-lethal alternatives to killing criminals, which ensures that certain villains can be recurring. The OCP Chairman and his corporation are treated as simply naïve and ignorant, in contrast to their malicious and immoral behavior from the second film onward.

RoboCop: The Series

1994

Carter poster
6.7

A Canadian actor on an American police procedural TV series returns home after a public meltdown. Partnering with his police detective friend, he tries to use his acting experience to solve real crimes.

Carter

2018

Little Mosque on the Prairie poster
6.6

The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000).

Little Mosque on the Prairie

2007

Paradise Falls poster
4.5

Paradise Falls was a weekly soap opera shown nationally on the Showcase channel in Canada, starting in 2001. It is set in a summer cottage community in Central Ontario.

Paradise Falls

2001

Wind at My Back poster
9.0

A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by Max Braithwaite

Wind at My Back

1996

The Jane Show poster
6.0

Aspiring novelist Jane Black suddenly winds up unemployed. Hoping for a more conventional lifestyle, she goes in search of a job, hoping to find something with a 40-hour work week and maybe even dental insurance. Her adventures in the corporate world are not so ordinary, however, and she learns that a normal life may not be so normal after all.

The Jane Show

2006

George and Martha poster
8.2

The humorous everyday lives of happy hippos George and Martha, and the enduring friendship they share. Based on the books by James Marshall.

George and Martha

1999

Seven Little Monsters poster
7.5

About a family of seven monsters and their mother. Each monster is named after a different number from one to seven, and each has unique physical characteristics.

Seven Little Monsters

2000

Baroness von Sketch Show poster
7.2

This all-female comedy satirizes modern life's everyday concerns, from the pretentiousness of ordering a fancy coffee to office and sexual politics.

Baroness von Sketch Show

2016

Code Name: Eternity poster
6.5

Code Name: Eternity is a Canadian science fiction series broadcast in syndication for 26 episodes starting in 1999. Shot in Toronto, Ontario, it was cancelled after a single season and ended on a cliffhanger. It was later shown on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States. The plot follows an alien scientist who arrives on Earth and assumes human form in order to perfect technology that will radically change Earth's environment to be suitable for habitation by his own species. Another of the aliens, having discovered the true nature of Banning's plans, abandons him and joins up with a human scientist in an attempt to prevent the destruction of Earth and humanity.

Code Name: Eternity

2000

The Kids in the Hall poster
6.6

The iconic Canadian sketch comedy show returns with an exciting new season, a fresh batch of fun, off-beat characters and beloved favorites, and sketches that pack a satirical punch, all laced with the edgy and fearless comedy the Kids are synonymous for.

The Kids in the Hall

2022

No artwork available
NR

The Ron James Show is a Canadian television comedy show, which debuted on CBC Television on September 25, 2009. Starring comedian Ron James, the show intersperses filmed and stage sketches with clips of James performing his stand-up routine. One of the show's more noted features is L'il Ronnie James, an animated recurring sketch which depicts James as a young child growing up in Cape Breton in the vein of Terry Gilliam's animation style.

The Ron James Show

2009

Homeschooled poster
NR

Two homeschooled 16-year-old intellectuals make a documentary showcasing what home education is really like. The documentary and their friendship take a turn when one enrolls in "real" high school.

Homeschooled

2022

No artwork available
NR

It's 1964. Constantly feuding showbiz couple Kip and Ruby have a variety show on CBC television, and must sort out their personal problems, as well as the ones caused by network exec Littleman.

Getting Along Famously

2005

No artwork available
2.2

Single White Spenny is a Canadian television series that aired briefly on Showcase in 2011, and chronicles the misadventures a fictitious version of Spencer Rice, played by himself, has dating various women after his wife divorced him for being "an immature man-child emotionally incapable of a serious relationship." IFC Canada announced that Single White Spenny had been cancelled due to poor ratings and its inability to capture Kenny vs. Spenny audiences.

Single White Spenny

2011

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