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Kandyse McClure
McClure in 2013
Born	Candice McClure (1980-03-22) 22 March 1980 (age 44) Durban, South Africa
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Ian Cylenz Lee
Website	www.kandysemcclure.com/bio/

Candice McClure (born 22 March 1980), known professionally as Kandyse McClure, is a Canadian actress. She gained prominence through her roles in the Fox Family series Higher Ground (2000), the NBC and Syfy adaptations of Stephen King's Carrie (2002) and Children of the Corn (2009), and as Anastasia Dualla in Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), also on Syfy. She led the film Sew the Winter to My Skin (2018).

McClure was in the main casts of Persons Unknown (2010) and Ghost Wars (2018), also on NBC and Syfy. She had a recurring role as Dr. Clementine Chasseur in the Netflix series Hemlock Grove (2013).

Early life

Candice McClure was born in the Greenwood Park area of North Durban, South Africa. Her mother is an educator and her father is a musician. From the age of four, McClure moved back and forth between South Africa and Canada. She completed her secondary education at West Vancouver Secondary School in 1998. McClure was cast in a production of Athol Fugard's Valley Song at the age of 17.

Career

McClure's first television appearance was a lead role with Lou Diamond Phillips in the 1999 television film In a Class of His Own that was followed by the Fox Family teen drama Higher Ground and the NBC Saturday-morning series Just Deal, both of which premiered in 2000. The year 2000 was also the time period when McClure played a recurring role in the Canadian drama television series Da Vinci’s Inquest.

In 2002, McClure portrayed the recurring role of Elizabeth Munroe on Showtime's Jeremiah. Also in that year, the actress played the role of Sue Snell in the television film remake of Stephen King's novel Carrie. Also in 2002, McClure guest starred as Annie Fisher in two episodes of James Cameron's science fiction drama television series Dark Angel on Fox.

From 2003 to 2009 , McClure played the role as Anastasia "Dee" Dualla on the Sci Fi Channel series Battlestar Galactica. McClure's character, a Petty Officer Second Class in the Colonial Fleet, has never appeared in the original 1978 series, but was initially an analogue of Sarah Rush's original series character Flight Corporal Rigel. McClure was a regular cast member of the series until January 2009.

McClure then appeared in a 2009 television adaptation of King's Children of the Corn and the Carl Bessai feature film from the same year Cole. In 2010 the television series Persons Unknown, in which McClure co-starred, premiered, but the series was not renewed for a second season after it was initially picked up by NBC.

In 2011 McClure played the girlfriend of Stuart Davis in the independent short film Just Be Yourself, a comedy about a desperate man who is offered a job to "just be himself." McClure then joined Davis again in 2011 to co-host the second season of the late-night HDNet program Sex, God, Rock 'n' Roll. In 2012 McClure joined the cast of Netflix original series Hemlock Grove (premiered in January 2013) and completed the feature film Broken Kingdom (alongside Rachael Leigh Cook). McClure has also appeared in other television programs, such as Whistler, Andromeda, Jake 2.0, Smallville, and Reaper.

On 2 February 2016, Historica Canada featured Viola Desmond in the 82nd Heritage Minute, to mark the beginning of Black History Month. The video was filmed on location in High River, Alberta in June 2015. It features Kandyse McClure as Viola Desmond, a civil rights activist and entrepreneur who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia in the 1940s.

Personal life

As of 2013, McClure continues to work with the non-profit organization CARE Canada to address poverty in the world's developing regions. As of 2013, McClure resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

McClure is married to musician Ian Cylenz Lee. He proposed to her when they were visiting her family in South Africa in December 2012.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

• Leo Awards; Nominated in 2003 (Best Supporting Performance by a Female: Feature Length Drama) for her role in Carrie, and nominated again in 2010 (Best Lead Performance by a Female: Feature Length Drama) for her role in Cole.
• Peabody Awards, Peabody Award for Excellence in Television, 2005, Battlestar Galactica R&D TV in Association with NBC Universal Television Studio, Sci Fi Channel

References

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16. Stuart Davis (7 February 2011). "New Project / Just Be Yourself". Stuart Davis – Stuart's Blog. Stuart Davis Media, LLC. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
17. Stuart Davis (27 September 2011). "Sex, God, Rock 'n Roll Season 2". Direct Event Insurance. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
18. The Deadline Team (2 July 2012). "Kandyse McClure Joins Cast Of 'Hemlock Grove'". Deadline Hollywood. PMC. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
19. "Viola Desmond Heritage Minute debuts, honouring the 'Rosa Parks of Canada'". CBC News. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
20. Sadaf Ahsan (2 February 2016). "Historica Canada honours Viola Desmond, the 'Rosa Parks of Canada,' with a Heritage Minute". National Post. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
21. "Cylenz". www.instagram.com. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021.
22. Moore, Kasey (24 October 2022). "Kandyse McClure Cast in Season 5 of Netflix's Virgin River". What's on Netflix. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
23. Past Nominees & Winners 2003 at www.leoawards.com
24. Past Nominees & Winners 2010 at www.leoawards.com

External links

• Official site
• Kandyse McClure at IMDb 

• 1980 births
• Living people
• 21st-century Canadian actresses
• Actresses from Durban
• Black Canadian actresses
• Canadian expatriate actresses in the United States
• Canadian film actresses
• Canadian television actresses
• Canadian voice actresses
• Cape Coloureds
• South African emigrants to Canada