Lorena Gale was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s. She also authored two award-winning plays, Angélique and Je me souviens.

She appeared in such movies as Ernest Goes to School

Ernest Goes to School

Ernest Goes to School is a 1994 comedy film written and directed by Coke Sams and starring Jim Varney. It is the seventh film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell, and the first to be released direct-to-video. It never had a DVD release in Region 1. This motion picture is also the only film...

, Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four (film)

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, Traitor

Traitor (film)

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, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Mermaid Chair

The Mermaid Chair (film)

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, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. She has guest starred on programs such as The X-Files

The X-Files

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, Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1

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, Smallville

Smallville (TV series)

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and Kingdom Hospital

Kingdom Hospital

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. Until August 2005, she starred as Priestess Elosha

Elosha

Elosha is a fictional character from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series.Elosha is a priestess who follows the religion of the Lords of Kobol. After having a troubled childhood, a young Elosha turned to religion and studied the scriptures inside and out, probably on the colony Gemenon...

 on the SciFi Channel

Syfy

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 television program Battlestar Galactica.

Her play, Angélique, the story of executed slave

Slavery

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 Marie-Joseph Angelique

Marie-Joseph Angélique

Marie-Joseph Angélique was the name given by her last owners to a Portuguese-born black slave in New France . She was tried and convicted of setting fire to her owner's home, burning much of what is now referred to as Old Montreal...

, was the winner of the 1995 duMaurier National Playwriting Competition in Canada.

External links

• Podcast conversation with Lorena Gale on Sci-Fi Talk (about 24 minutes in length; Gale talked about her recent roles)
• Lorena Gale, Angélique (1999)
• Lorena Gale article at Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia