Yanna McIntosh

Yanna McIntosh (born 1970) is a Jamaican-born Canadian actress who works across theatre, television, and film, and is sometimes credited as Yanna MacIntosh. She trained at the University of Toronto and the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, and has taught theatre at the National Theatre School of Canada and Humber College.

McIntosh's stage work spans classical and contemporary repertoire. Her theatrical roles include Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Mary in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, and Condoleezza Rice in David Hare's Stuff Happens. In 2011, she took on the starring role of Mama Nadi in Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, produced by Obsidian Theatre and Nightwood Theatre, becoming the first person to win the Toronto Theatre Critics' Award for Best Actress in a Play for that performance. The same role earned her the 2011 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role. Across her theatrical career, McIntosh has received six Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations in the Best Actress category and has won the award twice, for her performances in Florence Gibson's Belle and Athol Fugard's Valley Song. In 2014, she portrayed Cleopatra in the Stratford Festival production of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, which was subsequently filmed for the CBC Television series CBC Presents the Stratford Festival. That performance earned her a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards. In 2019, McIntosh joined the San Francisco production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Hermione Granger, marking her connection to that production's Broadway run the same year.

McIntosh has accumulated an extensive body of television work. Her recurring roles include Dr. Currie in the medical drama Side Effects, Zona Robinson in This is Wonderland, Edna Myles in The Eleventh Hour, Dr. Rollins in Blue Murder, Ms. Dymond in The Best Years, and Jenni Hernandez in Riverdale. She also voices Jenny the giraffe in the Canadian animated series Willa's Wild Life. Among her television film credits are Atomic Train (1999), in which she played Christina Roselli; Strange Justice (1999), in which she played Jeanette; Deliberate Intent (2000), in which she played Elaine; Crown Heights (2004); Chasing Freedom (2004), in which she played Ruth; Reversible Errors (2004), in which she played Genevieve Carriere; Doomstown (2006), in which she played Pat Barrows; Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (2006), in which she played Dr. Crone; They Come Back (2007), in which she played Naketha; and Matters of Life and Dating (2007). Her performance as Pat Barrows in Doomstown won her the 2007 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series.

Her film appearances include Down in the Delta (1998), Nicole in Spooky House (2000), Penny Mills in Full Disclosure (2001), John Q (2002), Teddy Vargas in The Sentinel (2006), Diana in Finn's Girl (2007), and Heaven on Earth (2008).