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Revision as of 02:16, 19 June 2011
Luba Goy | |
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 Luba Goy at the 2010 Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony | |
| Born | November 8, 1945 |
Luba Goy (Ukrainian: Люба Ґой; born November 8, 1945)[1] is a Canadian comedian and one of the stars of Royal Canadian Air Farce.
Life and career
Goy was born in Haltern, Germany to Ukrainian parents and raised in Ottawa. They emigrated to Canada in 1951. She is a graduate of the Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, Ontario, and later graduated from Canada's National Theatre School, before acting in theatre productions in Stratford, Ontario. In the early 1980s, she starred (as herself, alongside Billy Van) in an educational series on computers called Bits and Bytes. Produced by TV Ontario, the show was aired by PBS stations in the United States.
Later that decade, she played Lotsa Heart Elephant, Treat Heart Pig and Gentle Heart Lamb in Nelvana's animated Care Bears franchise. As part of the Air Farce team, Goy has won 15 ACTRA awards, a Juno, the MacLean's Honour Roll, and was among the first Canadians to be inducted into the International Humour Hall of Fame. In 1993, Goy and her Air Farce cast members received Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Brock University. In 1996, Goy received the Outstanding Achievement Award from Women in Film and Television.
She has also done voices for various animated TV series featuring Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Babar, AlfTales, My Pet Monster, Sylvanian Families, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, The Rosey and Buddy Show, Rupert, The New Archies, Little Shop and WildC.A.T.S..
Within the Ukrainian Canadian community she occasionally has comedy performances that highlight her Ukrainian heritage. One such example was her involvement in 1999 with the Ukrainian pavilion at Folklorama, a cultural festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She speaks Ukrainian fluently. Luba's film roles have included an 18th-century innkeeper in the Ukrainian film Vid'ma (Відьма, Witch), filmed in Kiev.
Characters portrayed by Goy
- Yoko Ono
- Hillary Clinton
- Anne McLellan
- Ethel Blondin-Andrew
- Barbara Striesand
- Wendy Mesley
- Elizabeth II
- Alexa McDonough
- Pamela Wallin
- Sheila Copps
- Adrienne Clarkson
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Rita MacNeil
- Laura Bush
- Bev Oda
- Mildred K. Plush (leader of The Idiot Party of Canada)
- Linda Sims
- Margaret Atwood
- Elizabeth May
- Martha Stewart
- Suze Orman
- Lorena Bobbitt (demonstrating the Lorena Bobbitt Ginsu knife)
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