Originally from Montreal, Nicky Guadagni majored in drama at Dawson College and went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her first role after graduation was playing Miranda, with Paul Scofield as Prospero, in a production of The Tempest in the West End of London. Her theatre work in Canada includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Stratford Third Stage; Zastrozzi and Criminal Genius at the Factory Theatre; Hamlet and Mother Courage for the National Arts Centre; The Seagull and The Member of the Wedding at Tarragon Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and Alls Well for Canadian Stage Dream in High Park and OD on Paradise and In the Wings (which she adapted for the stage from the Carole Corbeil novel) at Theatre Passe Muraille.

Guadagni has been nominated for five Gemini Awards for her work on television, and received the award in 1998 (Best Supporting Actress, Major Crime) and 2004 (Best Actress in a Guest Role, Blue Murder, “Eyewitness”). She was a mainstay of the repertory cast of the A&E Network’s A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), playing no fewer than 13 highly varied roles in the course of the TV series and the pilot. Her career as a voiceover artist has included dozens of CBC Radio Dramas, talking books (The Stonecarvers), radio and TV commercials, many documentaries and she was the narrator of the TV series Birth Stories. Watch her Film & TV demo below.

She has performed her one woman show Hooked in more than forty homes and taken the stage version to the Edinburgh Festival and the Seattle Fringe. In 2015 Hooked was presented as part of the Theatre Passe Muraille season winning Nicky the Dora Mavor Moore award as best actress. Watch this beautiful 22-minute film on Hooked.