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| Actor Meredith Henderson is best known to YTV fans as Shirley Holmes, the crime-solving great-grandniece of famed detective Sherlock Holmes./Aaron Harris, The Canadian Press |
Ottawa's Meredith Henderson has gone from teen sleuth Shirley Holmes to country superstar Shania Twain.
The 20-year-old actress, who grew up in Aylmer and Orléans, has been chosen to star in the mustard-sandwiches-to-riches story of the Timmins diva in a two-hour CBC movie by Jerry Ciccoritti, who also directed Trudeau. Filming is start in Timmins and Sudbury later this month.
Ms. Henderson, who sang at Winterlude and Kiwanis festivals, is known better to YTV fans as teen detective Shirley Holmes, who uses the same deductive powers of her great granduncle, Sherlock Holmes, to solve mysteries.
The four years she spent on the series made her one of Canada's best known teens.
The daughter of an acting and musical family, Ms. Henderson started taking singing and acting lessons at the age of five. She's the youngest of four siblings - her sisters Beki and Beth and brother Noah were still teens when they formed the band Tangleroot with their father, Mark.
One of Ms. Henderson's first roles was in an Ottawa production of the musical Oliver!
Her movie debut was in the television fantasy The Song Spinner. In 2000, she played Greg Evigan's 14-year-old daughter Phoebe in the short-lived music industry comedy Big Sound. And in 2002, she played a Jewish Austrian cellist staying illegally in prewar Canada in A Wind At My Back Christmas.