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- Raylene Rankin was born on 15 September 1960 in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was an actress, known for The Rankin Family: Borders and Time (1994), The Rankins: Roving Gypsy Boy (1996) and The Rankins: The River (1996). She died on 30 September 2012 in Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Actor
- Composer
John Morris Rankin was born on 28 April 1959 in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor and composer, known for Making Steel (1992), The Rankin Family: Borders and Time (1994) and The Rankins: Roving Gypsy Boy (1996). He died on 16 January 2000 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Kate Beaton was born on 8 September 1983 in Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is a writer, known for Pinecone & Pony (2022), Antiques Roadshow (1997) and Stripped (2014).- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Heather Rankin was born in Mabou, Nova Scotia, the eleventh of twelve children. In 1989, after graduating with a BFA in Theatre from Acadia University, Heather and her siblings, John Morris, Raylene, Jimmy and Cookie, recorded their first record The Rankin Family. Over the next ten years The Rankin Family released five full albums, a five song EP and two compilation albums. They toured frequently across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and in Australia and New Zealand. The went on to win six Juno Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards, an American Country Music Television Award and fifteen East Coast Music Awards. Combined sales of their recordings exceeded 1.5 million copies.
The Rankin Family disbanded in 1999 and the following year Heather and her sisters recorded background vocals for Carly Simon's record The Bedroom Tapes. She then starred in several musicals and plays including Jesus Christ Superstar at Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Piper at Factory Theatre in Toronto and Bingo by Daniel MacIvor at Neptune Theatre, for which she was nominated for a 2012 Robert Merritt Award. She has also appeared in several films including Marion Bridge and The Hanging Garden.
Her debut solo record, A Fine Line is available April 1st, 2016.