Rod Beattie is a Canadian actor who is best known for performing the Wingfield Series of plays by Dan Needles. In these plays Beattie plays all the characters, employing changes in voice or facial expression to denote which character he is playing. He has appeared in productions of these plays across Canada and on TV, and in 1991-2 he won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for best actor in leading role for his performances in the first three Wingfield plays. Beattie has appeared at the Stratford Festival for 15 seasons. Other productions include The Loveliest and Sylvia in Victoria, The Crucible and Blessings in Disguise in Manitoba, Oleanna at the National Arts Centre opposite Sandra Oh, and Love Letters opposite wife Martha Henry in an Ontario tour. He also appeared in the movie The Wars. On January 14, 2010, Walt Wingfield passed another milestone in his remarkable career. The opening night performance of Wingfield Lost and Found at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Alta. was Rod Beattie's 4,000th performance of a Wingfield play in a little over twenty-five years. 

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