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Catherine Mary Stewart
Stewart in 2011
Born	Catherine Mary Nursall (1959-04-22) 22 April 1959 (age 65) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1980–present
Spouses	John Findlater ​ ​(m. 1983; div. 1985)​ Richard Allerton ​(m. 1992)​
Children	2
Website	https://www.catherinemarystewart.com/

Catherine Mary Stewart (née Catherine Nursall; born 22 April 1959) is a Canadian actress. Her film roles include The Apple, Night of the Comet, The Last Starfighter and Weekend at Bernie's. She was also the original Kayla Brady in Days of Our Lives.

Early life

Stewart was born on 22 April 1959, in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Mary (Stewart) and John Ralph Nursall. Her parents taught at the University of Alberta, her mother a physiology teaching assistant and her father a biology professor. Stewart attended Strathcona Composite High School. She first took jazz dance lessons, and moved to London after high school to study dance and general performing arts, and where she passed the audition for her first movie, The Apple.

Career

In 1980, Stewart landed a role in The Apple, a musical science fiction cult film. During the production of The Apple, the director Menahem Golan took issue with her original name Mary Nursall and insisted she change it, which she did using her mother's maiden name.

After moving to Los Angeles, she obtained a role on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, playing the original Kayla Brady from January 1982 to December 1983. She also auditioned for projects like Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story, against Jamie Lee Curtis. In 1984, she starred in two science fiction feature films, The Last Starfighter as Maggie Gordon and Night of the Comet as Regina Belmont. She later played a leading role in the teen comedy Mischief.

In the mid-1980s, Stewart appeared in two miniseries: Hollywood Wives (1985) and Sins (1986), where she played the younger version of Joan Collins's character. She made guest appearances on television series such as Knight Rider, Hotel, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Outer Limits. She starred in several made-for-TV movies such as Murder by the Book (1987), Passion and Paradise (1989), Perfect Harmony (1991) and Ordeal in the Arctic (1993). In 1989, she appeared as Gwen Saunders in the comedy film Weekend at Bernie's. She, too, had a small role on The A-Team, season 2 episode titled Steel.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, she scaled back her appearances while raising her family. After her children had grown, she again started appearing in television and film roles, and expressed an interest in directing. In 2010, she appeared in the film A Christmas Snow. In 2016, she directed the short movie A Walk to Remember. She starred in the Hallmark holidays movies Rock N' Roll Christmas in 2019 and A Christmas Comeback in 2020.

Personal life

She is the sister of Alan Nursall, a scientist and media personality who reports on science news for the Canadian TV series Daily Planet and the Discovery Channel. Another brother, John Nursall, is a freelance writer and TV/film documentary director and producer.

She was married to actor John Findlater in 1983 and divorced in 1985. She married Richard Allerton in 1992. She has a daughter and a son and lived in Brooklyn, New York, as of 2013.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

1. ^ "Catherine Mary Stewart-Biography". TCM.com. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
2. ^ Brownlee, Kristy (June 2013). "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". Avenue Edmonton Magazine. pp. 100–107. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
3. ^ "Catherine Mary Stewart". Ten Minute Interviews. 10 August 2014. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
4. "The Apple Oral History: How Did This Get Made". 5 February 2016.
5. ^ "IMDb page for Catherine Mary Stewart". IMDb. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
6. Rick29. "Catherine Mary Stewart Talks with the Café About Her Cult Film Classics, Dernzies, and a Kiss from Robert Preston". Retrieved 29 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
7. ^ Radenhausen, Jim (27 May 2016). "Catherine Mary Stewart Q&A with the Pocono Record". Pocono Record. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
8. "Mary, Mary". TMZ. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
9. "Our film critic sat down with the stars of classic Christmas flick, Night of the Comet". Charleston City Paper. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
10. "Hallmark Movies Now Has 25 New Premieres This Holiday Season". Cord Cutters News. 3 December 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

External links

• Catherine Mary Stewart at IMDb 
• Catherine Mary Stewart at AllMovie
• Catherine Mary Stewart at the TCM Movie Database
• Interview with Catherine Mary Stewart at Classic Film & TV Cafe, 27 January 2014

• 1959 births
• 20th-century Canadian actresses
• 21st-century Canadian actresses
• Actresses from Edmonton
• Canadian expatriate actresses in the United States
• Canadian film actresses
• Canadian soap opera actresses
• Canadian television actresses
• Living people