Enid-Raye Adams

Biography

Enid-Raye Adams was born in 1973 in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Since then, no one has ever pronounced her name correctly. Kids at school called her Igor and Enid The Peenid. (Those kids were ill-mannered and had gastric intestinal problems.) After two perms in a row in junior high, Enid-Raye bore a striking resemblance to Napoleon Dynamite from the major motion picture of the same name.

Years later, Enid-Raye began her career in theater, performing in some of Shakespeare’s classics. In 1993, she made her film debut as a feature extra in the Canadian independent For the Moment (1993) opposite Russell Crowe. Her only requirement in the film was to tap Russell Crowe’s shoulder in a party scene and smile at him. This was meant to launch her career in film and television and cement her as a leading lady in the minds of directors and studio executives everywhere. Unfortunately, due to a severe case of nerves, Enid-Raye looked like a rabid gopher on camera and her part was cut from the film.

In 1998, she moved to Vancouver to pursue her career and couldn’t get arrested. If she jaywalked in front of the cops, they would say, “I’m sorry, we’ve decided to go another way,” or “Jaywalk for us again when you have an agent.” It was during this time that she co-wrote and performed in the hilarious one-woman show “Would You Like Fries With That?”. She began and promptly finished doing stand-up comedy when she discovered she was much funnier in the privacy of her own home. Finally, she threatened to egg an agent’s ’87 Dodge Dart if he didn’t sign her. Remarkably, he did and she has been working ever since.

Enid-Raye was a host for The 16th Annual Leo Awards (2014) and has received two Leo Award nominations for her work: One for her chilling portrayal of the psychotic and highly disturbed Laura Maitland, a recurring character in the acclaimed series Da Vinci’s Inquest (1998) for Chris Haddock; and the second for her role as a Mom suffering from depression in R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour (2010).

Enid-Raye works regularly in film, television, voice and commercials. She lives in Vancouver where she can be found loitering in front of Lee’s Donuts in her chocolate milk mustache and buffet pants.