Schitt’s Creek, Anne With an E win big at the ACTRA Awards

The cast of Schitt’s Creek got another accolade and the actress who plays a certain beloved red-headed orphan charmed the voters at the 17th annual ACTRA Awards in Toronto.

CBC TV comedy Schitt’s Creek won the Members’ Choice Series Ensemble Award. The show, co-created by father and son Eugene and Daniel Levy, won Best Comedy Series at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 and has won individual Screen Awards for stars Eugene Levy, Chris Elliott, Emily Hampshire and Catherine O’Hara, who won the ACTRA Award for Outstanding Female Performance in 2016.

This year, the Female Performance prize went to Irish-Canadian actress Amybeth McNulty, who plays the title character in CBC’s Anne With an E. The drama, created by Moira Walley-Beckett, is based on the Anne of Green Gables novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery but gives viewers a darker view of orphan Anne’s story.

Both Anne and Schitt’s Creek are the leading nominees for this year’s Canadian Screen Awards, with 15 nods apiece.

The winner of the Outstanding Male Performance Award was veteran actor Stephen McHattie ( Pontypool, Orphan Black, The Strain) for his role in the 2018 movie Crown and Anchor.

The Outstanding Voice Performance Award was split this year to give female performers more recognition, ACTRA said in a news release. The female winner was Bryn McAuley for voicing Shirley Squirrely in the animated series Top Wing. Mark Little won the male prize for playing Dino in cartoon Cupcake & Dino: General Services.