Trivia

After attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she won the Lorne Greene Award for outstanding work in the theater, she studied at The Webber Douglas Academy in London.

Good friends with actor Harrison Ford.

In December 2014, she revealed to the press that she had come out to her family as a lesbian several years ago.

Graduated from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario with a BA in Drama in 1977. Switched from English.

Wendy Crewson was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She attended Westwood Collegiate and was first exposed to acting when she performed in The Boy Friend in grade 10.

Wendy and her former husband, actor Michael Murphy, have two children, Jack Murphy (b.1992) and Maggie Murphy (b. 1989), both of whom co-starred in the movie Sleeping Dogs Lie (1998) with their parents.

Daughter Maggie Murphy was born in 1989, and son Jack Murphy (John Branton Murphy) in 1992.