Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Johnson's brother Clark Johnson, an actor and director (Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire), and sister Taborah, an actor and singer, are also noted Canadian performers.
The child of a white mother and a black father, Johnson's career started in the mid-1960s when as a young grade schooler, she and her brother, were Read more on Last.fm