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Karyn Dwyer starred in Better Than Chocolate (1999) which
had one of Canadian film's top box office grosses. Better Than Chocolate (1999)
ranked 31 on The Hollywood Reporter's list of best independent films that year,
won numerous awards and earned Karyn a loyal cult following. This Newfoundland
native has gone on to play a diverse array of roles, large and small, in independent
films. Karyn got her start in theater at age 10 when she starred in Theatre
Newfoundland and Labrador's production of Alice In Wonderland. She went on to
become a theater veteran and after high school made the long hike to Toronto
to attend theater school. She worked with Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell in
'Lorne Michael's Superstar (1999) then gave gritty performances in short films
like Pony (2002)and Dying Like Ophelia (2002)(Bravo! Network) by two time Governor
General Award winning playwright, Judith Thompson. Karyn played to sold out
audiences opposite celebrated Canadian actor, 'R H Thompson' , in Exercises
In Depravity. She played Juliet in Native Earth's Romeo and Juliet, Sooze in
Eric Bogosian's Suburbia, wrote and starred in her one woman show Bad Girls
at The Rivoli, and played Phoebe in As You Like It for the internationally acclaimed
theater festival DuMaurier World Stage opposite Seana McKenna and Albert Schultz.
The oldest of five siblings, Karyn lost her father to cancer when she was 9
and later her brother died at the age of 24. She then spent the next three years
advocating programs to fight her brother's illness before returning to feature
film roles and starring in the 2004 feature The Right Way (2004) and guest starring
in the award winning "This Is Wonderland" (2004) for her Better Than
Chocolate (1999) director, Anne Wheeler.
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