Sheila Tyson

Television actress Sheila Tyson has held roles on popular television shows and made-for-television movies in both Canada and the United States since the 1990s. Her first credited role was that of a wife/barfly in the short film "Persistence of Memory" in 1993. Since then, she has held parts on popular shows including "The New Addams Family" in 1998 and the crime drama "Cold Squad," which ran from 1998 to 2005. In 2001, Tyson played one of the doctors attending to an eight year-old boy with a brain tumor in "The Miracle of the Cards." After the devastating diagnosis, the boy's mother petitions the international community for get well cards to nurse her son's spirit. One of her most popular roles was that of Mary Savage in the 2005 Canadian horror film "Savage Island." She voiced a member of the Savage family, a strange and violent family living on a remote island. Continuing her work in television, Tyson made an appearance on the hit J.J. Abrams mystery drama "Fringe" in 2011 as Mary. This marked her return to television as her first role in nine years, having last appeared in the made-for-television movie "Cabin Pressure," an action film about a hijacked automated plane, in 2002.