Soo Garay

Soo Garay
Born	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Other names	Sue Garay
Years active	1994–present
Spouse	David Hewlett ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2004)​

Soo Garay is a Canadian actress born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is probably best known for playing Dr. Claire Davison on the TV series Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal.

Biography

Garay is the daughter of Valéria Gyenge, an athlete who won an Olympic gold medal for Hungary in 1952.^[1] Her father is János Garai, former Hungarian water polo player.^[2] and her grandfather was fencer János Garay.

Career

Soo Garay started her career on stage, and has become an accomplished theater actor. Some of her more notable credits include the national tour of Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!, Florence Gibson's Belle, Sarah Stanley's version of Romeo and Juliet, a 1993 outdoor production that received strong critical acclaim across the world.^[3]

Personal life

Soo Garay was married to Stargate Atlantis star, British-born Canadian actor David Hewlett in November 2000. They divorced in February 2004. She speaks Hungarian fluently.^[4]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1988	The Understudy: Graveyard Shift II	Script Girl
1989	A Whisper to a Scream	Mimi
1990	Outcast	Mother
1996	Hidden in America	Phoebe
1996	Devil's Food (1996)	Female Reporter
1997	A Prayer in the Dark	Rachel
1998	Shot Through the Heart	Amela
1998	Evidence of Blood	Maria
1998	Blues Brothers 2000	Indiana State Trooper
1999	The Fall	Jo
2000	Ricky 6	Sarah Portelance
2000	The Color of Friendship	Amanda
2000	Three Stories from the End of Everything
2001	WW 3	Patty
2001	A Colder Kind of Death	Sylvie Hargrave
2003	Foolproof	Hamish Receptionist
2003	Nothing	Little Girl's Mother
2003	Friday Night	Susan
2004	The Sadness of Johnson Joe Jangles	Clay Fantasia
2005	Martha: Behind Bars	Regina
2005	Hotel Babylon	Katia
2006	Aruba	Mom
2008	Adoration	Anna/Daughter
2008	Magic Flute Diaries	Journalist #1

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Szomszédok	Valerie	3 episodes
1996–2000	Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal	Dr. Claire Davison	38 episodes
1999	Storm of the Century	Melinda Hatcher
1999	La Femme Nikita	Valerie	episode, "Third Party Ripoff"
2001–2003	A Taste of Shakespeare	Lady Macbeth / Regan	2 episodes
2002–2004	Puppets Who Kill	Thelma / Head of the PTA / Madame Zelda	5 episodes
2004	Queer as Folk	Anna Sokowski	2 episodes
2005	1-800-Missing		2 episodes

References

1. Bio from IMDb
2. https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/story.html?id=bff0468c-7e7b-47ad-85d1-a2e0db2c9e1e&p=1^{[permanent dead link‍]}
3. Torontostage.com article on Sarah Stanley Archived 3 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2013.

External links

• Soo Garay at IMDb