Rebecca Liddiard
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Rebecca Liddiard | |
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_-b.jpg) Liddiard in 2018 | |
| Born | January 8, 1991 London, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2012–present |
Rebecca Liddiard (born January 8, 1991) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Constable Adelaide Stratton in the 2016 trans-Atlantic mystery series Houdini & Doyle and as morality officer Mary Shaw in Frankie Drake Mysteries.
Liddiard was born in 1991 in London, Ontario. She studied theatre performance at Ryerson University.[1][2] Liddiard moved to Toronto when she was 18[1] and worked as a part-time office manager there for some time.[2]
Career
In February 2016 Liddiard portrayed the lead character Thai in the Tarragon Theatre production of Kat Sandler's play Mustard.[1][3]
She appeared as the lead character Ella in the web series MsLabelled,[1][2][4] and had the recurring role of Hanna on the City science-fiction drama series Between.[2]
She achieved visibility after being cast in the role of Constable Adelaide Stratton[5] in the British-Canadian-American period mystery series Houdini & Doyle in 2016.[1][6]
In 2017, Liddiard portrayed Mary Whitney in the CBC/Netflix miniseries Alias Grace, adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name. Her performance was praised by the series’ writer and executive producer Sarah Polley, who said, “She has a magic to her that I haven’t seen before… She is arrestingly smart, full of life, and brave, and you can see all of that in her eyes.”[7]
In Atwood’s novel, the character is described as being “part Indian,” indicating Indigenous ancestry.[8] The casting was noted within broader discussions of representation in Canadian film and television, reflecting a historical pattern of non-Indigenous actors portraying Indigenous characters — a practice that has become less common amid growing calls for appropriate representation.[9]
From 2017 to 2021, Liddiard played the regular role of Mary, a morality police officer in 1920s Toronto, in the CBC mystery-drama series, Frankie Drake Mysteries.[10] In 2019, she played airplane crash survivor Madelyn in the first season of the British-Canadian thriller television series Departure.[11]
