Tom McCamus
Tom McCamus ( born July 25, 1955 in Winnipeg, Manitoba ) is a Canadian actor in film and theater.
Life and achievements
McCamus saw the light of day in Winnipeg. His older brother's name is Steve. He grew up from the age of ten years in the Canadian city of London, in the province of Ontario, on. There he attended the Oakland Secondary School. In 1977 he graduated from the University of Windsor in the city of Windsor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA).
In the cinema McCamus was in the comedy Crazy Balloon (1989 ) can be seen for the first time, where he played the lead role under director Paul Donovan. 1994 won the Dora Mavor Moore Award McCamus for his performance in the play by Beth Henley Abundance. He is a member of the theater groups of the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival. In the Canadian city of Stratford, he joined in 1994 and 1995 as Edmund Tyrone in the play Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. On stage he played, among others, the title roles in the plays of Peter Pan by JM Barrie, and in Androkolus and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw, the Macheath in The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, Horatio, and later Hamlet in Hamlet and Richard in Richard III. , both of William Shakespeare.
McCamus is married to theater actress Chick Reid. Together they performed repeatedly in the theater, for example, in Love Letters by Albert Ramsdell Gurney and The Passion Of Narcisse Mondoux Gratien Gélinas from.
He also presented McCamus in his career over 50 roles in series television and feature films represent, for instance in two -time Academy Award - nominated film drama The Sweet Hereafter ( 1997) Atom Egoyan with Ian Holm and Bruce Greenwood and in the film drama The Kingdom and the Glory (2000 ) by Michael Winterbottom with Peter Mullan and Milla Jovovich. In the sci-fi series Mutant X, he is seen as the villain Mason Eckhart.
A Genie Award, and an award at Mystfest McCamus received in 1993 for the lead role in the film drama Rough man in uniform. 1997 gave him, together with the ensemble of actors, the National Board of Review the NBR Award for The Sweet Hereafter. 2006 McCamus won for his performance a Gemini Award and an ACTRA Award for Waking Up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story. He has also been nominated for various awards.