Founded the Young People's Theatre in Toronto in 1966
In 2001 she and her family helped to establish The Christopher J. Rubes Center For EMS Studies, named after her physician son who died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1996.
Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Eye on Science Fiction" (McFarland & Co., 2003).
Mother of actor Anthony Dean Rubes.
She was awarded the C.M. (Member of the Order of Canada) on June 25, 1975 for her services to Children's Theater in Canada.
Was pregnant three times (in real-life) during her stint on Guiding Light. Producers choose to hide her pregnancies, rather than write them in the storyline.