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Biography

In 2024 Dawn Ford completed playing the lead role of Evelyne in "Bury the Devil" and Estelle in the series "Plan B" by Dec 31st, 2024. She voiced several roles in the newly released "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora" and plays a spirited pirate named Shane in the 2025 release of "Skull and Bones" for Ubsoft. Her portrayal of Nonna in "For the Love of Pasta" is ledgendary. Worked with Gary Oldman in Crisis starring directed by Nicolas Jarecki. "Beans" written and directed by Tracy Deer and is in "On the Basis of Sex" and the animated features "Jungle Bunch 2 World Tour" "Toopy and Binoo" "Racetime" and series "Pompom Ours" "Game Catchers" and "Billy the Hamster". As well, Dawn was nominated for a One Voice Award for her narration of the documentary feature "Lady Sapiens" released on International Woman's Day.

For more than 30 years, Dawn has reached critical acclaim as a celebrated performer, due to her dedication, depth, range, unlimited creative force and likability.  Over the course of her career, she has played numerous notable roles including a recurring role on the Canadian Screen Award winning series, 19-2, and the recurring role of Sheila Thompson in, The Art of More (Sony) starring Kate Bosworth.  MGM's feature film, Death Wish, with Bruce Willis, and starred opposite Luke Wilson in the comedy, Brad's Status. All contributing to her receiving a Lifetime Membership Award from Actra Montreal. 

Selected Film and Television credits include The Last Druid, directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), The Young & Prodigious Spivet with Helena Bonham Carter; Mirror Mirror starring Oscar Award winning Julia Robert and SYFY's Being Human.

Dawn has had the pleasure of working with directors, Academy Award-winning Denys Arcand (Barney’s Version, Stardom, Joyeux Calvaire), Award Winning Tracey Deer (Beans, Mohawk Girls) Gemini Award-winning Christian Duguay (The Art of War, Human Trafficking), Gemini-nominated Pierre Gill (Fakers), Emmy Award-winning Pierre Gang (Further Tales of the City), Richard Freidenberg (Education of Little Tree) and Pavla Ustinov (Hotel de L'Avenir), to name only a few.  

Furthermore, Dawn is an extremely talented voice actress, having played several series regular voices on the animated series, Wubby School (Muse), Jack (TVO) and the lead in Fishtronaut (PBS Kids).  Selected past voice credits include: Little Lulu, Toad Patrol, Animal Crackers, Mona the Vampire, and the Emmy Award-winning, Arthur.  

In addition to lending her voice to numerous commercial campaigns, Dawn has provided her voice to many Ubisoft Video Games, her unique and infalliable delivery with accents coupled with her impressive range has earned her countless credits in multiple series, including Assassins Creed, Tom Clancy and Far Cry.Dawn Ford has lent her voice to over {50} fifty leading roles in delightful animated programs, over {55} fifty-five campaigns for such recognized and prominent name brand corporations as Tide, Toyota, Air Canada, etc, not to mention the over {20} twenty Video Games she has provided character voices to over the course of her career.

Dawn’s body of voice work has reached an enormous and immeasurable audience worldwide, both adult and children alike, and has collectively contributed to earning millions of dollars in profits to her lucky employers, the networks, producers, advertising agencies and gaming companies across Canada.  

Although Dawn’s voice may not always be recognizable to the ear due to her impressive range, she has been acknowledged with several awards for her work, the ACTRA AWARD for OUTSTANDING VOICE PERFORMANCE as the lead in the animated series, Fishtronaut, in addition to ACTRA WOMAN OF THE YEAR and a prestigious Actra Lifetime Achievement Award. As well as a 2022 Nomination for best Voice Narration of the Documentary Film "Lady Sapiens".

From Montreal, Canada, is amongst the top performers being able to deliver countless dialects and accents, to add to her notable and endless list of attributes. Including in the Emmy Award Winning 'Arthur' Podcast and can be heard as the teenage bear in the latest 'Bearpaws' Cookie campaign.


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