Overview
- Greenhalgh, who died on Nov. 6, 2026, at her home in Toronto, was 93 and her family confirmed the date in an obituary cited by multiple outlets.
- Her survivors include daughter Megan Follows and three other children and several grandchildren, and the family has said a celebration of life is being planned.
- She was a founding cast member of the Stratford Festival and helped found Neptune Theatre and Theatre Plus, establishing her as a central figure in Canadian repertory theatre.
- Greenhalgh voiced Queen Celeste on the CBC–Nelvana Babar series (1989–91) and returned for the 2010–11 sequel, work that gave her a global audience through broadcasts on HBO and in more than 150 countries.
- Born in Shanghai in 1933, held with her family in a wartime internment camp, and brought to Canada at 14, she trained with Uta Hagen, Herbert Berghof and Mira Rostova and maintained a long stage and screen career that included roles in The Virgin Suicides, Maps to the Stars and a 2022 turn on Five Days at Memorial.