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Cindy Busby: Canadian actress on her latest Great American Family projects
- Markos Papadatos
- Nov 12, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Nov 22, 2025
Canadian actress Cindy Busby talks about her latest Great American Family series “When Hope Calls” and her forthcoming holiday film “There’s No Place Like Christmas,” which comes out on November 30th.
‘When Hope Calls’
“When Hope Calls” Season 2 stars Cindy Busby as Nora, Christopher Russell as Constable, Mountie Michael, Nick Bateman as Wyatt, and Wendy Crewson as Tess Stewart, among others.
“When Hope Calls” is a spinoff of Oke’s legendary book series, “When Calls the Heart” and followed a pair of sisters, Lillian Walsh (Kohan) and Grace Bennett (Jocelyn Hudon) to the town of Brookfield, circa 1916.
“When Hope Calls” is a family-drama centered on the town’s orphanage and its residents who meet tremendous challenges while creating a hopeful, faith-filled community on the cusp of change in the frontier town while nurturing the children in their care.
Busby revealed that she is nearly the completing of filming Season 3 of “When Hope Calls.”
On starring in the hit series “When Hope Calls,” Busby said, “It is going amazing! We are still filming. It is going so well. We are starting our last block today. We are having the best time, and I don’t want it to end.”
Working with Nick Bateman and Christopher Russell
On working with Nick Bateman and Christopher Russell, Busby exclaimed, “Nick and Christopher are both so great! What more can I ask for? It is so awesome to work with dream co-stars on a dream show. That’s what makes it a 10 out of 10.”
Stage of her life
On the title of the current chapter of her life, Busby revealed, “Surrender.”
Busby of being a part of the 2024 Christmas Con in New Jersey
On being a part of last year’s Christmas Con, she remarked, “It is the best! It is the most intense weekend but in the best way possible. It is so filled with love; it’s a love fest all around. It is so nice to see everybody there.”
“I genuinely became friends with some of the people there. I am pretty sad that I won’t be there next month but hopefully, I will come again in the near future,” she added.
Success
On her definition of the word success, Busby stated, “Success is when you are truly at peace with yourself and can find joy in the little things in life, and not the accomplishments. In the meantime, I am just going to live my life because it’s so short.”
Upcoming holiday film for Great American Family
Her new holiday film for Great American Family will premiere on Sunday, November 30th and it is titled “There’s No Place Like Christmas.” She stars opposite Sam Page.
In this new rom-com, big city realtor, Grace Sawyer (Cindy Busby) returns to her hometown of Evergreen Falls to lead the local realty office, just as the team nears an annual sales goal that would win them a dream vacation.
On Grace’s first day, she accidentally ruins a once-in-a-year sunset photo for local photographer Luke Davies (Sam Page), who also shoots listings for the agency.
Will a chance at owning her dream home and snagging a permanent role managing the firm in her small town lead Grace to love and a future she never expected.
“This upcoming movie is so good,” she said. “It comes out at the end of November. It was nice to reconnect with Sam Page; he is the ideal co-star similar to Christopher Russell.”
Busby on playing a real estate agent
On playing a real estate agent, she said, “For me, it was really cool to get to play a real estate agent because I had just moved into a new house last year, so I felt I went through everything my character went through.”
Working with Sam Page
“Sam is a really great human, a really great actor and he is super professional and fun. It was great to rekindle with him. We had so much making this movie,” she acknowledged.
“I had real-life experiences, which was really fun. We got to shoot in Buffalo, New York, which surprisingly, is such a beautiful city with so much history to it,” she noted.
“I had a wonderful time with Sam,” she exclaimed. “We got to visit Niagara Falls on our downtime, which was a great deal of fun. It was really impressive, and I felt quite emotional going down the ‘Maid of the Mist,’ because it is such a powerful force.”
“Sam and I had a really great time. It was a really fun time about finding your perfect home and how every moment in your life brings different wants and needs. My character ultimately helps people find their perfect home during Christmas, which is actually the hardest time to sell houses, so that was a fun ride.”
“There is a really nice focus in the movie on charity and giving back,” she concluded.