Madeline's main job at Section is to get inside the enemy's head and gather inteligence, that they may have, that would help Section in any current or future missions.
Madeline also helps in the refining of new recruits in the area of their manners and etiquette.
Madeline seems to have her own agenda as far as her ambitions inside Section. She is known for her ruthlessness and coldness. It is rumoured that she likes to try out the 'Valentine Ops' to see if they are up for the job. (LOL) She seemed to have had a soft spot for Nikita, but that has changed over the seasons. As far as her relationship with Operations, that again is speculative at best. There is definitely a history between the two of them but exactly what that is, at this time, is unknown.

FULL NAME: Faith Susan Alberta Watson
AGE: 40 something
PARENTS: Mother - Grace - deceased ** Father - Albert

Alberta Watson was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She joined the theater at a young age. She started out in Toronto and after a few years she moved to New York where she continued her studies. She also spent a few years in Los Angeles but she found that she preferred the more challenging aspects of New York. She currently resides back in Toronto, where La Femme Nikita is filmed.

She received a Genie nomination for best supporting actress for one of her first movie roles, Mitzi in George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women Just a year later, she took home the Best Actress award at the Yorkton Film Festival for short films for Exposure. Watson then headed to the United States, living in New York and then moving to Los Angeles, where she made several films including the cult horror classic The Keep with Scott Glenn and the TV movie Women of Valor with Susan Sarandon and Kristy McNichol. After returning to the East Coast, Watson took a chance on a low-budget independent film with then-novice director David O. Russell. Spanking the Monkey won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, multiple Independent Spirit Awards, and dozens of rave reviews for Watson's performance as a depressed, addicted mother who has an affair with her own son, played by Saving Private Ryan star Jeremy Davies. The next year, Watson went on to play the far more stable mother to a teenage computer genius in the box office smash Hackers, and then the wife of mobster John Gotti in the Emmy nominated television movie of the same name.

Alberta returned to Toronto and continued to seek out interesting roles in independent film, a quest which led her to work with fledgling director Colleen Murphy on 1996's Shoemaker. While the film was not widely released in North America, Watson's performance did not go unnoticed - she received a second Genie nomination, this time in the Lead Actress category. The following year, she won critical praise for another independent film, Atom Egoyan's haunting The Sweet Hereafter, in which she played the mother of a child killed in a tragic accident. That film, which boasted an exceptional cast including Ian Holm and Sarah Polley, received the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to earn both Academy Award and Genie nominations.

Meanwhile, Watson had begun filming La Femme Nikita, a television series based upon the Luc Besson film of the same name. Her character, Madeline, is the executive strategist of a top-secret government agency that fights terrorism; a character who uses everything from psychological manipulation to torture to achieve the organization's ends. The series has received multiple Gemini awards, including a 1998 nomination for Watson for the episode "New Regime".

Two of Watson's films will make their debut at this year's (1999) Toronto International Film Festival. Deeply, with Lynn Redgrave and Kirsten Dunst, and desire, another project with Shoemaker director Colleen Murphy. She has recently completed filming on the fourth season of La Femme Nikita, on the feature film Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the CBC-TV movie Chasing Cain with Peter Outerbridge.

When she is not on location, Watson lives in Toronto with her two cats and two dogs.

Sources: IMDB, Screen Trade Canada.

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