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Sharron Matthews

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  • Producer
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Sharron Matthews
Featuring work from FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL, TAKEN, FRANKIE DRAKE MYSTERIES, RUBY AND THE WELL, MEAN GIRLS and HELLO CHARLIE
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Sharron is featured on John Ridley (Twelve Years a Slave) and Carlton Cuse's (LOST) highly-anticipated limited series Five Days at Memorial premieres on APPLE + portraying NURSE CHERI LANDRY. Sharron is also LUCY LAFONTAINE on the Family Channel's new hit show Ruby and the Well, now in it's second season, and just completed filming on the Disney feature Out of My Mind, the fifth season of Slasher starring Eric McCormack, and an episode of Murdoch Mysteries directed by the very same Eric McCormack and is featured as KONKO on Zokie and Planet Ruby for Nickelodean.

On the creation side, Sharron is working on two scripted TV scripted shows with Shaftesbury in Toronto, Canada. The first is an original digital series developed and co-written with Kat Sandler that's based on Sharron's first book Hello Charlie (series development funded by the IFP and CMF) and the second is an original musical series Follies developed and created with Keri Ferencz and Keavy Lynch.

Before ALL of this, for four wonderful hit seasons, Sharron was one of the stars of CBC's hit period crime drama, Frankie Drake Mysteries, which is still airing all around the world.

In both 2021 and 2019, she was nominated for the Canadian Screen Award, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA, for playing the role of FLO CHAKOWITZ on Frankie.

The last season of Frankie Drake Mysteries, Sharron co-wrote the episode, LIFE IS A CABARET.

Sharron is a co-creator, executive producer, screenwriter, and voice actor on Mary and Flo on the Go!, an animated series based on her and Rebecca Liddiard's characters from Frankie Drake Mysteries that streams on Shaftesbury Kids YOUTUBE channel. Mary and Flo On the Go!, just won the award for BEST ANIMATED CONTENT at TOWEBFEST 2022.

Famously known for her portrayal of "Joan The Secretary" in Tina Fey's iconic Mean Girls, Sharron Matthews is an excitingly diverse, award-winning Canadian artist, actress, singer, comedienne, writer, and producer. Sharron has worked on stage and screen with artists like John Travolta, Andrea Martin, and Ron Howard as well as toured her award-winning one woman shows around the world from Africa to New York, Scotland, and beyond.

Sharron was also featured in the films Cinderella Man, Take the Lead, The Music Man movie for Disney and Hairspray: The Movie. Sharron can also be seen on NBC's Taken, played Daphne for two seasons on She's The Mayor, Chef Sylvia on the multi-Emmy Award winning children's TV show, Odd Squad, was part of the international award winning ensemble of Tokens, and can also be seen on Murdoch Mysteries, Hudson and Rex, The Newsroom, and Kojak. Sharron co-wrote, hosted, and consulted on SLICE TV's MEME gURL.

Sharron's solo cabaret work has taken her across Canada numerous times (where she was named BEST CABARET PERFORMER by NOW Magazine and Broadway World) and around the world, selling out at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe for three years in a row (where, out of 3,000 productions, her show was awarded BEST OF THE FEST).

Sharron has toured on a double bill with Canadian comedy icon, Mary Walsh, collaborated with Gavin Crawford of CBC's Because News on a sell out World Pride show, premiered at Just For Laughs in Montreal, and one week later packed Toronto's High Park Amphitheatre for one night only with her acclaimed, award-winning show, Girl Crush, for which Broadway World awarded her BEST CABARET PERFORMANCE.

She has toured North America in Les Misérables and Harold Prince's Showboat, recorded her own album, Party Girl, can be heard on the Showboat cast album, The Music Man (for Disney) soundtrack, and sang backup on Jann Arden's award-winning Christmas album.

One of the projects Sharron is most passionate about, is her Cabaret for Kids, which she spent three years developing with Canada's largest theatre for young audiences company, Toronto's Young People's Theatre. Sharron's Cabaret for Kidsexplores the issues of body positivity, childhood anxiety, bullying, loving yourself the way you are, targeting 9-12 year olds, and has played across Canada. Sharron's Cabaret for Kids was nominated for Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Performance and Outstanding Production at the 2018 Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Sharron has written essays and articles for publications around the world, recently she completed her first book, Hello Charlie, which was optioned by Shaftesbury.

Sharron is a proud member of ACTRA, Canadian Actor's Equity, the Writer's Guild of Canada, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.
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Known for

Lacey Chabert, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried in Mean Girls (2004)
Mean Girls
7.1
  • Joan the Secretary
  • 2004
Michelle Pfeiffer, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, Amanda Bynes, Allison Janney, James Marsden, Elijah Kelley, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, and Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray (2007)
Hairspray
6.7
  • Mr. Pinky's Cashier
  • 2007
Lauren Lee Smith, Sharron Matthews, Rebecca Liddiard, and Chantel Riley in Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017)
Frankie Drake Mysteries
6.8
TV Series
  • Flo Chakowitz
  • Flo
  • Flo Chackowitz
Joshua Kilimnik, Dalila Bela, Sean Michael Kyer, Millie Davis, T.J. McGibbon, and Filip Geljo in Odd Squad (2014)
Odd Squad
7.2
TV Series
  • Chef Sylvia

Credits

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Actress

  • Tokens
    • Director #2
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Paris Paris
    • Texas policewoman
    • Released
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Mother Father Sister Brother Frank
    • Ronda
    • In Production
  • Out of My Mind
    • Mrs. Billups
    • Post-production
  • Slasher (2016)
    Slasher
    • Gladys
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Jonny Harris, and Georgina Reilly in Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
    Murdoch Mysteries
    • Marta Friessen
    • Miss Williams
    • TV Series
    • 2010–2022
  • Ruby and the Well (2022)
    Ruby and the Well
    • Lucy Lafontaine
    • Lucy LaFontaine
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Five Days at Memorial (2022)
    Five Days at Memorial
    • Cheri Landry
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2022
  • Mary and Flo on the Go (2022)
    Mary and Flo on the Go
    • Flo
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Lauren Lee Smith, Sharron Matthews, Rebecca Liddiard, and Chantel Riley in Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017)
    Frankie Drake Mysteries
    • Flo Chakowitz
    • Flo Chackowitz
    • Flo
    • TV Series
    • 2017–2021
  • Diesel vom Burgimwald and John Reardon in Hudson & Rex (2019)
    Hudson & Rex
    • Sharon Lightwood
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Fuad Ahmed, Connie Wang, and Ryan Allen in Tokens (2019)
    Tokens
    • Director #2
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
    The Curse of Buckout Road
    • Officer Cheryl Kellog
    • 2017
  • Clive Standen in Taken (2017)
    Taken
    • Marcy
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Joshua Kilimnik, Dalila Bela, Sean Michael Kyer, Millie Davis, T.J. McGibbon, and Filip Geljo in Odd Squad (2014)
    Odd Squad
    • Chef Sylvia
    • TV Series
    • 2014–2016
  • Parental Advisory: Disciplinary Measures (2014)
    Parental Advisory: Disciplinary Measures
    • Gwyneth
    • Short
    • 2014
  • She's the Mayor (2011)
    She's the Mayor
    • Daphne
    • TV Series
    • 2011
  • James Franco and Sienna Miller in Camille (2008)
    Camille
    • Paramedic
    • 2008
  • Michelle Pfeiffer, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, Amanda Bynes, Allison Janney, James Marsden, Elijah Kelley, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, and Nikki Blonsky in Hairspray (2007)
    Hairspray
    • Mr. Pinky's Cashier
    • 2007

Producer

  • Mary and Flo on the Go (2022)
    Mary and Flo on the Go
    • executive producer
    • TV Series
    • 2022

Writer

  • Mary and Flo on the Go (2022)
    Mary and Flo on the Go
    • writer
    • co-writer
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Lauren Lee Smith, Sharron Matthews, Rebecca Liddiard, and Chantel Riley in Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017)
    Frankie Drake Mysteries
    • written by
    • TV Series
    • 2021

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  • Alternative name
    • Sharon Matthews
  • Spouse
    • George MasswohlSeptember 10, 1995 - ???? (divorced)

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    • Female

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    Sharron is the great grand niece of legendary London theatre artist Jessie Matthews.

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