Alberta Watson, well known to television audiences as Madeline on the cable hit "La Femme Nikita" (1997), has enjoyed a long and diverse career in television and film.A native of Toronto, Watson began performing with a local theater group as a teenager. She received a Genie nomination for best supporting actress for one of her first movie roles, Mitzi in George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women (1978). Just a year later she took home the Best Actress award at the Yorkton Film Festival for short films for "Exposure". Watson then headed to the US, living in New York and then moving...

Alberta Watson has appeared nude in Spanking the Monkey, Women of Valor, Power Play, The Sweet Hereafter, and Sweet Angel Mine.