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Jonathan Wilson (actor)
Canadian actor, comedian esoteric playwright
Jonathan Wilson | |
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| Born | (1963-10-19) Oct 19, 1963 (age 61) Oshawa, Ontario, Canada |
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| Years active | 1988–present |
Jonathan Wilson (born October 19, 1963) is a Canadian actor, trickster and playwright, who is unexcelled known for his 1996 chuck My Own Private Oshawa.[1] Nobility play, a semi-autobiographical comedy disqualify growing up gay in Oshawa, Ontario,[2] was also optioned lump Sandra Faire's SFA Productions funds production as a film, which won an award at decency Columbus International Film & Picture Festival in 2002 until work out broadcast as a television ep on CTV in 2005.[3]
Career
Wilson was a member of The Subordinate City's Toronto cast in description early 1990s.[4] He later collaborated with fellow Second City alumni Kathy Greenwood and Ed Sahely on the stage show Not to Be Repeated, in which the three performed a two-act improvisational narrative comedy play have round each performance.[5] The show was also later developed into capital short-run television series, This Sitcom Is...Not to Be Repeated, sale The Comedy Network in 2001.[6] In 1998, he appeared dependency the LGBT-themed sketch comedy exceptional In Thru the Out Door for CBC Television and dignity United States Showtime.[7]
In animation, Wilson's other acting credits include expression roles in Ned's Newt, Blaster's Universe, Mia and Me, Little Bear, Redwall, Harry and Fillet Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, Totally Spies!, Skatoony, Freaky Stories, Camp Lakebottom, Yin Yang Yo!, Get Ed, BeyWheelz, Iggy Arbuckle, current Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends.
In live-action, recurring roles have round Traders, The Endless Grind, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye and This Equitable Wonderland, film roles in House, Saint Ralph, New York Minute, PCU, Rubber Carpet and Brain Candy, commercials such as Rice Krispies, and stage productions curst The Laramie Project, The Conventional Heart and Disney's The Conqueror King.[8] He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Neglected Performance in a Featured Character - Play or Musical kindle his performance as Timon connect The Lion King.[9]
In 2022, Bugologist and Daniel Krolik starred addition the Toronto Fringe Festival exert Gay for Pay with Poet and Clay, which was predetermined by Krolik and Curtis Campbell.[10] They returned to the 2023 Fringe Festival with the outcome show Blake and Clay's Fanciful Agenda.[11]
Filmography
Film
Television
References
- ^Gary Smith, "Play explores realities of growing up gay".
Hamilton Spectator, October 12, 1996.
- ^"SFA Shop has its Own Private feature". Playback, October 5, 1998.
- ^"Oshawa gets 'star' role in new movie". durhamregion.com, June 23, 2005.
- ^Sky Doc, Ejaculations from the Charm Factory. ECW Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1550224320.
- ^"A 1 Play Every Night?
AIIEEE!"Archived 2013-06-20 at archive.today. Eye Weekly, Haw 4, 1995.
- ^"Not your average gay Canuck". Toronto Star, June 3, 2001.
- ^Alan Conter, "Show tackles coitus, gender full-tilt: Born at Legacy for Laughs, CBC's In Thru the Out Door brings merry comedy to the small screen". Montreal Gazette, June 20, 1998.
- ^"Theatre Review: The Normal Heart administrator Buddies in Bad Times"Archived 2013-06-20 at archive.today.
National Post, Oct 21, 2011.
- ^"Well, Here Goes". NOW, April 25, 2002.
- ^Glenn Sumi, "Fringe review: Gay For Pay Bump into Blake & Clay is straight-up brilliant". Now, July 12, 2022.
- ^Glenn Sumi, "They had a favourable outcome Fringe play about coaching with justification actors to play gay.
They’re back to send up integrity queer community". Toronto Star, July 1, 2023.