Mary Cynthia Walsh, CM, LL.D (h.c.) was born on May 13, 1952, in St. John's, Newfoundland, and is an actress and comedian. Walsh suffers from macular degeneration, a disease that has rendered her left eye almost blind. Walsh has a son, Jesse Cox, born in 1989. She married Donald Nichol in 2002.
Mary Walsh is a producer at CBS News. She graduated from University of Texas at Austin College of Communication in 1977.
She won a 2002 and a 2004 duPont-Columbia Award. She was a media gamer in Dark Winter.
Founded the award-winning CODCO comedy troupe of Newfoundland.
Walsh's This Hour Has 22 Minutes characters include Dakey Dunn, Genoa Hellerstein and Marg Delahuntey.
In 1993 Mary Walsh was chosen to deliver the prestigious Graham Spry lecture which was broadcast nationally on CBC Radio.
In 1994, Walsh addressed the United Nations Global Conference on Development in New York.
Won Best Supporting Actress at the Atlantic Film Festival in 1992 for her performance in Mike Jones' Secret Nation.
Won several Gemini awards for writing and performing during the CODCO years on CBC Television.
She had a tough childhood with alcoholic parents.
Studied theatre in Toronto, but dropped out to appear with CBC and the group that became Codco.
She has a son, Jesse.
She was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on April 27, 2000 for her services to broadcasting and performing arts in Canada.
