A Toronto native who first worked with theatre director Hrant Alianak at the Theatre Passe Muraille transitioned to screen acting under the name Eddie Benton, earning a $2,000-a-week contract for the 1978 pilot/telefilm Dr. Strange. She soon appeared in the low-budget sci-fi feature The Shape of Things to Come (1979) and built a genre résumé with roles in Prom Night (1980), Savage Harvest (1981),…
