Tom McCamus

Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Tom McCamus (born July 25, 1955<ref name=McCamusNorthernstarsBio>Tom McCamus' bio at www.northernstars.ca</ref>) is a Canadian film and theatre actor. A sought-after stage performer, he is most widely known for his works on the television show Mutant X and drama film Room.<ref>Room review by Susan Wloszczyna at rogerebert.com</ref>

Early life

McCamus was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,<ref name=McCamusNorthernstarsBio/> the eldest son of a Labatt executive and a library science professor.<ref name="cit-2jan88">Template:Cite news</ref> He was brought up in London, Ontario from the age of ten. Originally destining himself to be a writer or a teacher, he found an interest in theatre when he took a drama class at Oakridge Secondary School. He subsequently landed a small role in a version of Antigone staged by the local Theatre London's Young Company, and went on to attend the University of Windsor's school of dramatic art.<ref name=McCamusNorthernstarsBio/><ref name="sun-3may87">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Theatre

McCamus moved to Toronto in 1980 and settled into a steady theatre career, spending his winters there while transplanting to Niagara-on-the-Lake in the summer, as a member of the famed Shaw Festival troupe. He became one of the country's more in-demand stage players, earning particular notice for his leading role in a complex staging of Peter Pan, which debuted in 1987 and returned by popular demand for the 1988 season.<ref name="cit-2jan88"/><ref name="sun-3may87"/> He is also known for his performance in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, one of the Stratford Festival's historic plays.<ref>Long Day’s Journey into Night at www.britishtheatreguide.info</ref> He received further praise when he performed triple duty during the 1998 edition of the festival, acting as Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, and one of the tramps in Waiting for Godot.<ref name="cit-14ma98">Template:Cite news</ref> He has performed multiple role in several other seasons,<ref name="can-ency">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> such as 2010, when he returned to Peter Pan—this time as Captain Hook—and played Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons.<ref name=McCamusStageDarkRef>"Stratford star McCamus shines when it’s dark" by Richard Ouzounian at www.thestar.com</ref>

In 1994, McCamus won what was then Canada's top theatre accolade, the Dora Award for Best Leading Actor, for his performance in Abundance,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> earning additional nominations on prior and later occasions, including 1992 when he was nominated alongside his wife Chick Reid.<ref name="can-ency"/><ref name="star-23may93">Template:Cite news</ref>

Film and television

Following a few TV appearances beginning in 1985, McCamus made his film debut in director Paul Donovan's time-travel comedy A Switch in Time (1989).<ref name="sun-3may87"/> He garnered positive reviews for his role as a mental patient in the historical drama Beautiful Dreamers, before earning wide acclaim as struggling actor Henry Adler in David Wellington's 1993 film I Love a Man in Uniform. For his performance, he won the Genie Award for Best Actor,<ref>"Genies broadcast" at playbackonline.ca</ref> and earned more positive reviews from the international press when the film was shown at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight.<ref name="star-23may93"/> McCamus has been nominated for the Genie Award on two occasions since, for Wellington's Long Day's Journey into Night (1996), in which he reprised his stage role,<ref name="cit-14ma98"/> and for the Oscar-nominated The Sweet Hereafter (1997), directed by Atom Egoyan.<ref>The Sweet Hereafter review by Owen Gleiberman at ew.com</ref>

McCamus came to the attention of a wider audience playing the villainous Mason Eckhart in the Marvel TV series Mutant X. Although McCamus proved sufficiently popular that he appeared in every episode of the first season, something that was not originally planned, he quit the show to star as Richard III and Mack the Knife at the Stratford Festival. He only returned to Mutant X to make occasional appearances in the second and third seasons.<ref>"He's one busy line-learner" by Kate Taylor at www.theglobeandmail.com</ref>

In 2005, McCamus starred in the CBC film Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story as famous hockey dad Walter Gretzky, for which he won Best Actor honors at both the ACTRA Awards and the Gemini Awards.<ref name="can-ency"/> Other notable screen appearances include Shake Hands with the Devil (2007), and the Ken Finkleman miniseries At the Hotel (2006). He appeared in the 2019 season of CBC's Street Legal in a supporting role.<ref>Street Legal at www.radiotimes.com</ref>

Personal life

McCamus is married to theatre and occasional TV actress Chick Reid,<ref>"Tom McCamus shines in Madness of King George III at Shaw Festival: review" at www.thestar.com</ref> a fellow alumn of the Shaw Festival troupe.<ref name="cit-2jan88"/> They live in Warkworth, Ontario.<ref name=McCamusStageDarkRef/>

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	And Then You Die	Jimmy
1988	A Switch in Time	Norman	Also known as Norman's Awesome Experience
1988-1989	Friday the 13th: The Series	Atticus Rook / Frank Edwards	2 episodes
1990	Beautiful Dreamers	Leonard Thomas
1993	I Love a Man in Uniform	Henry Adler
1993	Guilty as Sin	Ray Schiff
1994	The Circle Game	Frank
1996	Great Performances	Edmund Tyrone	Episode: "Long Day's Journey into Night"
1997	The Sweet Hereafter	Sam
1997	Bach Cello Suite #6: Six Gestures	J.S. Bach
1998	Last Night	Radio D.J.	Voice
1999	The Passion of Ayn Rand	Richard	TV movie
2000	The Spreading Ground	Johnny Gault
2000	Possible Worlds	George Barber
2000	The Claim	Burn
2000	Foreign Objects		TV series
2001	Century Hotel	Nicholas
2001-2004	Mutant X	Mason Eckhart	26 episodes
2002	Steal	Jerry
2002	The Nature of Nicholas	Father
2002	Perfect Pie	Don Rayford
2003	Trinity	Dr. Clerval
2003	The Newsroom	Bob Daniels	Episode: "Death 1, George 0"
2004	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen	Calum
2004	Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning	Wallace Rowlands
2004	Siblings	Mr. Phillips
2005	Black Widow	Detective Pressman
2007	Shake Hands with the Devil	Phil Lancaster
2008	Killshot	Paul Scallen / FBI Chief
2009	Cairo Time	Mark
2009-10	Spliced	Lord Wingus Eternum
2012	The Samaritan	Deacon
2014-2015	Orphan Black	Dr. Nealon	7 episodes
2015	King John	King John
2015	Antony and Cleopatra	Enobarbus
2015	Room	Leo
2019	The Tempest	Stephano
2019	Coriolanus	Menenius Agrippa

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