Margaret Atwood
Birthday
1939/11/18 (85 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Also know as
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Biography
Born in Ottawa and raised in Toronto, Margaret Atwood graduated from the University of Toronto’s Victoria College in 1961 and pursued a master's at Harvard in 1963. Her teaching stint at the University of British Columbia marked her start, but it was her poetry collection, "The Circle Game," in 1964 that brought her initial literary acclaim. Her debut novel, "The Edible Woman" (1969), resonated with early feminist movements, followed by "Surfacing" in 1972, a Canadian literature mainstay. The '...Read more
Acting
(1999) Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet
as Herself
(2017) Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned
as Self
(2005) Reading Alistair MacLeod
as Self
(2010) Yesno
as (voice)
(2013) Awaiting Atwood
as Margaret Atwood
(2014) Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
as Self
(2010) In the Wake of the Flood
as Margaret Atwood
(1984) Margaret Atwood: Once in August
as Herself
(2018) Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
as Herself - Contributor
(2018) Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
as Self - Writer
(2019) Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
as Self - Writer
(2015) Al Purdy Was Here
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(2020) Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
as Self
(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(2003) imagine…
as Self
(2017) Wandering Wenda
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(2004) Tout le monde en parle
as Self
(2014) Trailblazer Honors
as Self - Honoree (archive footage)
(1997) The View
as Self
(2018) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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(2019) BookTube
as Self
(2017) The Handmaid's Tale
as Aunt