Marilla Wex - the Official Website | Actress, comedian, award-winning voice artist

Acting

Marilla Wex’s passion for performing was ignited at the age of four when she starred as Mary in her junior kindergarten nativity play. The dream didn’t stop there – she discovered booze and boys in the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, realized academia wasn’t for her at the Bristol University Drama Department and got herself classically trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Having spent her first ten years as a...

Stand-Up

Yearning for the instant gratification of a live audience, back in 2008 Marilla decided to do what everyone had been telling her to do for years – stand-up comedy. She took a class from the wonderful Dawn Whitwell in less than three years was opening for Tom Green and Seán Cullen. Please be aware that there is strong language and sexual references in these routines. Viewer discretion is advised. And you thought I was a nice...

Marilla Wex – British voice artist

British voice artist Marilla Wex fell in love with voice work thanks to her teacher at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the legendary Francis Thomas. It is he whom she holds personally responsible for not only beating the Birmingham accent out of her, but also teaching her a nice RP which helped her to win a Gold Crystal Award in 2008 for the best radio commercial voiceover in Canada. The first job I got out of drama school was at BBC Radio...

Storytelling

In January 2010 Zane Caplansky asked Marilla if she’d be interested in hosting a storytelling night at Caplansky’s Deli. She asked Zane if he knew that her husband, Michael, was one of the most famous old-school storytellers on the Toronto scene. Zane was excited. So were the Wexes. And Storytelling at Caplansky’s Deli was born. The monthly Sunday night event has become a hugely popular show for Toronto’s storytelling...

Photos

As a physical and vocal chameleon Marilla Wex is hard to pigeon-hole. She has played roles as diverse as the shrinking violet Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice, recovering Brummie alcoholic Jane in The Good Times Are Killing Me and council house clairvoyant Mother Cheapside in The Sad and Cautionary Tale of SmackHeaded Peter. She is as comfortable playing a middle-American mom as she is playing a Victorian hooker. She is wigged so often for...