Carla Collins is an award-winning comedian and one of Canada's premier radio and television personalities. She is the first woman in Canada to front a major market morning show, currently hosting "Carla & Company” on Toronto's MIX 99.9.

 

Carla Collinsis also a popular comic actor, appearing weekly as the lusty Hollywood hussy Rusty Sinclair on Showcase's campy primetime soap Paradise Falls. She also frequently guest-stars on a wide range of television shows including YTV/Fox Family's The Zack Files Fox's Tracker and CTV's The City (where she played a dominatrix). She made her feature film debut in 2001 alongside Samuel L. Jackson in The Caveman's Valentine.

 

In 2000, she secured her own half-hour comedy series Chez Carla on The Comedy Network and in early 2001, landed her first solo stand-up special₁ The Wonder Bra Years which aired on both The Comedy Network and CTV. The special was a critical and ratings success, capturing a Gold Award for Best TV Comedy Special at Worldfest: Houston International Film and Television Festival. An accomplished stand-up comic, she has performed across North America including appearances at the 2001 Vancouver Comedy Festival and Montreal's renowned Just For Laughs festival, where she shot the upcoming comedy special, Front Row at Just For Laughs.

 

Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Carla began her broadcasting career while a student at the Universite' de Franche Comte' when she hosted a highly rated program on Radio RVF in Becanson, France. After graduating from the University of Western Ontario with an honours degree in French language and literature, Carla went on to host both French and English radio and television shows in Montreal and Toronto.