Brenda Bazinet (born July 18, 1956) is a Canadian actress. She is a recipient of the Gemini Award and has been nominated four times for the Dora Mavor Moore Award.^[1]

Bazinet was born in 1956 in Saskatchewan and grew up there.^[2] She attended high school in Stoughton, after which she studied fine arts at the University of Regina.^[3]

Bazinet and two friends founded the 5 & Dime Productions theater company in 1985. She has also taught at Actors Workshop, Actraworks, Citadel Theatre/Banff Professional Theatre Program, George Brown Theatre School, Humber College, and Ryerson University.^[2]

She won a Gemini Award for Best Actress in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 6th Gemini Awards in 1992, for her performance in an episode of the drama anthology series Saying Goodbye.^[4]

Select credits

• 33 Brompton Place (1982)
• Siege (1983) as Barbara
• In This Corner (1986) as Heather
• Alex: The Life of a Child (1986) as Barbara Keator
• Dancing in the Dark (1986) as Susan
• Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988) as Alice
• Saying Goodbye (1990) - Episode "A Grief Shared"
• To Catch a Killer (1992) as Alice Pearson
• Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (1994) as Mary
• A Holiday to Remember (1995) as Eve Stevens
• Hidden in America (1996) as Food Bank Worker
• Lethal Vows (1999) as Dr. Addington
• Sins of the Father (2002) as Virginia Cherry
• Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004) as Barbara's Agent
• Rabbittown (2006) as Harriet
• Burn Up (2008) as Marianne
• Shoot the Messenger (2016) as Susan Reeves
• Anne with an E (2017-2018) as Jeannie
• Utopia Falls (2020) as Gran Riel