David Hemblen

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David Hemblen (* 1940 in London , England ) is a British - Canadian actor .

Life

David Hemblen was born in London, but grew up in the Canadian city of Toronto . There he attended the University of Toronto in the mid-1960s and received a Master of Arts (MA) degree in English . He was also a lecturer there. While he was studying the Middle Ages to earn a Ph. D. , director Clifford Williams of the Royal Shakespeare Company discovered him at a theater rehearsal at the university and promptly engaged him at the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto. After two years of studying and acting, Hemblen dropped out in 1968 and devoted himself only to the art of acting. He never attended drama school , but later taught there himself.

In the first two decades of his career, Hemblen was mainly devoted to theater, appearing at the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake , among others . He has appeared in over seventy Canadian theater productions as an actor or theater director . From 1986 he turned mainly to the film camera and also dubbed . Over the course of his 40-year career, he was seen in the films Basements (1987) by Robert Altman , M. Butterfly (1993) by David Cronenberg , Mesmer (1994) by Roger Spottiswoode and Salem Witch Trials (2002) by Joseph Sargent . Hemblen made eight films with the Canadian director Atom Egoyan , z. B. the two-time Oscar- nominated drama The Sweet Beyond (1997). Hemblen often embodies figures of authority and character roles . His internationally best-known role is probably Jonathan Doors in eighteen episodes of the science fiction television series Mission Earth . In six episodes of the dramatic agent series Nikita he was the powerful George in a power struggle with operations , portrayed by Eugene Robert Glazer .

Hemblen was nominated for the Genie Award in 1988 for Best Actor in the drama Familienbilder ( Family Viewing ) . For his role in the play Uncle Vanja by Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov , he was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Actor .

He lives in Toronto and the South of France. His daughter Kate is also an actress.

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SURNAME Hemblen, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK