Biography

Colliar was born in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 and grew up in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia

Port Coquitlam, British Columbia

Port Coquitlam is a city in British Columbia, Canada. Located 27 km east of Vancouver, it sits at the confluence of the Fraser River and the Pitt River. Coquitlam borders it on the north, the Coquitlam River borders it on the west, and the cities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows lie across the Pitt...

. She is a graduate of Terry Fox Secondary and went on to SFU where she graduated with a degree in biology. Colliar worked at veterinary clinics as an assistant for seven years, She then enrolled in the two-year Broadcast Journalism program at the British Columbia institute of Technology.

Television career

In 1991, Colliar went to work at Global BC where she began as a newswriter and then later on moved to a full-time reporting position. She did a production called "A Shred of Evidence," a half hour special, was awarded the Excellence in News Reporting by the British Columbia Association of Broadcasters. The production dealt with how intricate scientific details pieced together evidence, which lead to convictions in major B.C. homicides.
In 2005 Colliar was inducted into the Terry Fox Wall of Fame. From 1998–2001, she was the sole morning news anchor. September 10, 2010 marked Colliar's last day as a co-anchor with Steve Darling on the Global BC

CHAN-TV

CHAN-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Owned by Shaw Communications as a part of its Shaw Media division, it is the West Coast flagship station of the...

's Morning News. On September 27, 2010, she will begin her new role as Senior Investigative Reporter for the News Hour.

Acting career

Colliar had a minor role in "Watchmen

Watchmen (film)

Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons...

" as an anchor and in the Horror thriller film The Tortured

The Tortured

The Tortured is a 2010 mystery horror-thriller film directed by Robert Lieberman and written by Marek Posival.-Plot:The film tells the story of a couple whose life is broken when a serial killer kidnaps their only son and kills him. The psychotic wife blames her husband...

. She has been an anchor or reporter on several local productions, including last season's "The Killing".

Personal life

In her spare time Colliar likes to travel and bike. She has a daughter with her husband, Glenn Ennis, born in July 2011. They also have 2 dogs. An Irish Wolfhound and a Mini-Schnauzer.

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