Karen LeBlanc
Quick Facts
Biography
Karen LeBlanc is a Canadian film, television and musical theatre actress.
Career
LeBlanc's credits include the television seriesTrailer Park Boys, Playmakers, Shattered, Cracked, Material World, Producing Parker, Defying Gravity, Platinum, Soul and ReGenesis, and the films Make It Happen, Knights of the South Bronx, Nurse.Fighter.Boy, Dolan's Cadillac and High Chicago.
On stage, she has appeared in productions of Outrageous!, Rent. and Cinderella. She has also performed as a backing vocalist for Chaka Khan, Rik Emmett and Glass Tiger.
She won the Best Actress Award at the 2008 Atlantic Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Actress at the 30th Genie Awards, for her performance in Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
LeBlanc played Tina Turner on the series The Playboy Club, singing two of Turner's signature songs, "Shake a Tail Feather" and "I Want to Be Made Over".