Life Membership is awarded to an Equity member in recognition of their artistic achievements throughout their career.
It recognizes not only career achievement, but also colleagues who have gone “above and beyond” in other ways that contribute to the benefit of either Equity or its members.
1975 — Jane Mallett
1976 — Herman Geiger-Torel, Hamish Robertson, Herbert Whittaker
1977 — Mervyn (Butch) Blake, Dora Mavor Moore, Dennis Sweeting
1978 — Robert Christie, Gratien Gelinas
1979 — Sam Payne, Arnold Spohr
1980 — Paul Kligman
1982 — Donald Davis
1983 — Lois Smith
1984 — Amelia Hall
1986 — Maureen Forrester
1987 — George Luscombe
1988 — Jean Gascon, Barry Morse
1990 — Jack Merigold
1991 — Dan MacDonald
1993 — Evelyn Hart
1994 — Douglas Campbell
1995 — Joy Coghill
1996 — Jean-Louis Roux
1997 — William Hutt
1998 — Antony Holland, William Needles
1999 — Lotfi Mansouri
2000 — John Neville
2001 — Frances Hyland
2002 — Tony Van Bridge
2003 — Tibor Feheregyhazi
2004 — Doreen Brownstone, Irving Guttman
2005 — Gordon Pinsent, Charmion King
2006 — Malcolm Black, Henry Woolf
2007 — Jackie Richardson, Gordon Tootoosis
2008 — Lloy Coutts, Bernard Hopkins
2009 — Martha Henry, Nora Polley
2010 — Elsa Bolam, Grant Reddick
2011 — Thomas Peacocke, Joyce Doolittle
2012 — Evelyne Anderson, Marti Maraden
2013 — Philip Akin, Janet Irwin, Kenneth Welsh
2016 — Ted Follows, Jennifer Phipps, Kathryn Shaw, Greg Wanless
2018 — Bill Millerd, Chick Reid
2020 — Judith Forst, Mary Morrison, Christopher Newton
2022 — Victoria Bertram, Stephen Heatley, Elley-Ray Hennessy, Stan Lesk
2024 — Clare Coulter, Kelley McKinlay, Edward Roy, David Warrack