Claire Drainie Taylor
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Early life
Born and raised in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.[1]
Career
For the CBC, Drainie Taylor acted in a number of radio and television productions, including Jake and the Kid, John and Judy and Barney Boomer; she also wrote radio plays, including Santa Had a Black, Black Beard and Flow Gently Sweet Limbo.[1]
She published an autobiography, The Surprise of My Life, in 1998.[1] Also that year, she created the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, a literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the year's best biographical work by a Canadian writer.[2]
Personal life
Drainie Taylor was briefly married to Jack Murray as a teenager, moving with him to Vancouver Island before divorcing him at age 21.[1] She subsequently met and married fellow actor John Drainie, with whom she had six children including journalist Bronwyn Drainie.[1]
After John Drainie's death in 1966, she remarried in 1968 to theatre producer Nathan A. Taylor, who died in 2004.[1]
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- 1917 births
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- Canadian radio actresses
- Canadian television actresses
- Canadian autobiographers
- Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian radio writers
- Canadian women radio writers
- Actresses from Saskatchewan
- People from Swift Current
- Writers from Saskatchewan
- 20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
- Canadian women autobiographers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers