Canadian stage and screen star Cynthia Dale is returning to what she calls “the best job in Canada.”<\/p>\n
On Monday, nearly 25 years after it ended, CBC’s popular Canadian courtroom drama\u00a0Street Legal<\/em> makes a comeback, with Dale once again starring as steely lawyer Olivia Novak.<\/p>\n It’s a role that was outside Dale’s comfort zone when she first landed it in the late 1980s, she says, noting she was doing theatre in New York City at the time and “couldn’t even say ‘civil litigation,’\u00a0let alone know what the hell it meant.”<\/p>\n But the character \u2014 who blazed a trail on Canadian TV with an unusual mix of smarts, sexiness and unabashed confidence \u2014 quickly became a cherished one.<\/p>\n “I always said, for those seven years, I had the best job in Canada \u2014 way better than a prime minister, way better than anything. It was so fantastic to learn, to live and build that woman and live in who she was,” Dale said in an interview.<\/p>\n “And the fact that that gets to happen again at this point with these people \u2014 are you kidding? I’m the luckiest girl in Canada again. Really.”<\/p>\n Debuting on CBC-TV and the CBC Gem streaming service, the new\u00a0Street Legal<\/em>\u00a0also finds Olivia outside her comfort zone, after the big Toronto law firm she works for disbands and she joins a team of young social-activist lawyers at a small upstart.<\/p>\n The cast also includes Cara Ricketts, Steve Lund, and Yvonne Chapman. Returning cast members include Eric Peterson and Anthony Sherwood.<\/p>\n CBC<\/p>\nOlivia Novak\u00a0at\u00a0small\u00a0upstart law firm<\/h2>\n