Years active 1970-present Name Luba Goy | Role Comedian | |
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Awards Humanitarian Award, Gemini Award - Royal Canadian Mint's Viewer's Choice Award Nominations Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series Movies and TV shows The Care Bears, Air Farce Live, The Care Bears Movie, Bits and Bytes, The Care Bears Adventur Similar People Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott, John Morgan, Craig Lauzon, Penelope Corrin | ||
Rockburn presents luba goy
Luba Goy (Ukrainian: Люба Ґой; born November 8, 1945) is a Canadian comedian and one of the stars of Royal Canadian Air Farce.
Contents
- Rockburn presents luba goy
- Bizarre the bigot family vol 1 john byner michael wincott luba goy philip akin lally cadeau
- Life and career
- Characters portrayed by Goy
- References
Bizarre the bigot family vol 1 john byner michael wincott luba goy philip akin lally cadeau
Life and career
Goy was born in Haltern, Germany to Ukrainian parents and raised in Ottawa. They immigrated to Canada in 1951. She is a graduate of the Glebe Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1969 she graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada, then went on to act in theatre productions in Stratford, Ontario. In the early 1980s, she starred (as herself, alongside Billy Van) in an educational series on computers called Bits and Bytes. Produced by TV Ontario, the show was aired by PBS stations in the United States.
Later that decade, she played Lotsa Heart Elephant, Treat Heart Pig and Gentle Heart Lamb in Nelvana's animated Care Bears franchise. As part of the Air Farce team, Goy has won 15 ACTRA awards, a Juno, the MacLean's Honour Roll, and was among the first Canadians to be inducted into the International Humour Hall of Fame. In 1993, Goy and her Air Farce cast members received Honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Brock University. In 1996, Goy received the Outstanding Achievement Award from Women in Film and Television. In 1998, Goy, along with her Air Farce colleagues, received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
She has also done voices for various animated TV series featuring The Elephant Show, Babar, AlfTales, My Pet Monster, Sylvanian Families, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, The Rosey and Buddy Show, Rupert, The New Archies, Little Shop, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, and WildC.A.T.S..
Within the Ukrainian Canadian community she occasionally has comedy performances that highlight her Ukrainian heritage. One such example was her involvement in 1999 with the Ukrainian pavilion at Folklorama, a cultural festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She speaks Ukrainian fluently. Luba's film roles have included an 18th-century innkeeper in the Ukrainian film Vid'ma (Відьма, Witch), filmed in Kiev.
In 2011, she performed at the Toronto Ukrainian Festival. In May 2012 Luba Goy debuted her one-person show LUBA, SIMPLY LUBA at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Toronto.
Characters portrayed by Goy
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