Elva Mai Hoover
Elva Mai Hoover
Elva Mai Hoover is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her performance as Betty Fox in The Terry Fox Story, for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984, and her television roles as Mrs. Edison in The Edison Twins and Mrs. Lawson in Road to Avonlea. She has also had guest and supporting roles in other films and television series, but was active primarily as a stage actor, most notably as painter Anne Langton in Molly Thom's The Bush-Ladies.She is the mother of writer Gemma Files, through her marriage to Australian actor Gary Files.