by Hal Erickson
biography
Coltish Canadian actress Catherine Mary Stewart made her first film, The Apple, in 1980. This hit-and-miss Faust takeoff was horrible enough to ruin anyone's career, but Stewart managed to survive to co-star in such films as The Last Starfighter (1984) and Weekend at Bernie's (1989). Her best screen showing was as the slack-jawed valley girl who finds herself one of the last two survivors of the Apocalypse in the hilarious Night of the Comet (1984). In the mid-'80s, Catherine Mary Stewart held down the regular role of nurse Kayla Brady on the daytime TV soap Days of Our Lives.
