Karyn Dwyer's trivia

Volunteers once a week at a telephone helpline.

Better Than Chocolate was ranked 31st in Hollywood Reporter's top 200 independent films that year and is one of Canada's top grossing English speaking films.

Played a junkie prostitute in "Exercises in Depravity", opposite RH Thompson, staged in the bathroom of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Only 12 audience members were allowed per night. One night, during Dwyer's monologue when her character burns out her own eyes, an audience member fainted�and had to be carried out. Other audience members assumed it was part of the show.

Played Ophelia in The Bravo! Network's award winning short film "Dying Like Ophelia" as well as "A Taste of Shakespeare", played Juliet in Native Earth's "Romeo and Juliet", played Speed in "Two Gentlemen of Verona".

Played Phoebe in "As you Like It" at the internationally renowned DuMaurier�World Stage Festival opposite Albert Shultz and Seana McKenna. The actors had no rehearsal and were given cue scripts with only their own lines and three words of the line before, which was their cue to speak.

Father died when she was 10.

The product of an Irish Catholic Newfoundland family, Karyn is the oldest of 5 children. Her father died at the age of 38. Her brother died at the age of 24.

Won a scholarship to study journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa but chose to study theatre at George Brown in Toronto.

Bruce McCulloch made her take out her belly piercing for Superstar because he felt Catholic school girls shouldn't have belly piercings. In real life, Karyn attended Holy Heart of Mary Regional High, St. Michael's, St. Kevin's, St. Gerrard's, and Immaculate Conception.