Sherry White

Sherry White is a Canadian film and television actress, writer and filmmaker, best known for her work as a producer and writer for the television series MVP, Rookie Blue and Saving Hope and as director of the feature film Crackie. She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay, at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018, for the film Maudie. Originally from Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, she attended Memorial University of Newfoundland's Grenfell College campus in Corner Brook, where she was a classmate of Susan Kent, Adriana Maggs and Jonny Harris. Percy Hynes White, her son with actor and writer Joel Thomas Hynes, is an actor who has had roles in the films Crackie, The Grand Seduction and Cast No Shadow, and the television series Murdoch Mysteries, Between and Pretty Hard Cases.