Tyrone Benskin
出生 : 1958-12-29, Bristol, England, UK
略歴
Tyrone Benskin has been a significant presence in theatre, film, television and music for over 30 years. As part of the Canadian and International cultural landscape Tyrone has amassed an impressive resume and acclaim for a significant and varied body of work;, from no-nonsense cop to caring and devoted father, from ancient warrior to the characters showing the darkness of human nature. His numerous theatre credits include appearances on many of the celebrated stages across Canada.
His over 100 film and television credits include co-starring with Tori Spelling in the TV movie "Mind over Murder", the new Christmas classic "The Christmas Choir", "The Wool Cap" and the civil rights drama "Deacons for Defense" opposite Forrest Whitaker and Mr. Ossie Davis. Mr. Benskin also appeared in the NBC mini-series 10.5: Apocalypse and starred as Karl Lubinsky in the cult science fiction series "Charlie Jade" which aired in Canada, the US and internationally including South Africa, France, England and Japan. Feature films include the blockbuster hit "300", Bob Dylan bio-pic "I'm not There" and acclaimed independent films "Peepers" and "Adam's Wall."
For over 5 years, Mr. Benskin served as Artistic Director of Black Theatre Workshop, Canada's oldest Black theatre company. He served President of the Board of Creations Etc., a youth arts and outreach organization as well as serving on the board several community based non-profit organizations. Mr. Benskin was twice elected to the post of National Vice President of ACTRA, Canada's national film and television actors union.
On May 2nd, 2011 Mr. Benskin was elected to the 41st Parliament of Canada as the Member for the diverse riding of Jeanne-Le Ber. Mr. Benskin was subsequently appointed to the post of "Official Opposition Critic for Canadian Heritage" by the Honorable Jack Layton. Mr. Benskin also serves as Deputy Critic for Official Languages and served on the Sub-Committee for International Human Rights. Benskin served as a Member of Canada's House of Commons for four and a half years returning to the big screen in 2016 in Bad Santa 2 and the small screen as recurring character Rev. Wardell Cobb in season 2 of The Art of More opposite Denis Quaid.
Rattled Businessman
日常のささいなことでも不安になる怖がりの男ボーはある日、さっきまで電話で話してた母が突然、怪死したことを知る。母のもとへ駆けつけようとアパートの玄関を出ると、そこはもう“いつもの日常”ではなかった。これは現実か？ それとも妄想、悪夢なのか？ 次々に奇妙で予想外の出来事が起こる里帰りの道のりは、いつしかボーと世界を徹底的にのみこむ壮大な物語へと変貌していく。
George
A grieving daughter discovers a red envelope from her mom that contains a final request: for her to complete a Christmas Checklist of twelve activities before Christmas, the last one being “Find Love”.
Judge
謎の力によって地球の軌道から外れた月が、我々人類が知る限りの生命体と衝突するコースへと急降下する。衝突まであと数週間、世界は滅亡の危機に瀕していた。NASAの重役で元宇宙飛行士のジョー・ファウラーは、人類を救う鍵を持っていると確信していたが、彼女の過去を知る唯一の人物で宇宙飛行士のブライアン・ハーパーと陰謀論者のK・C・ハウスマンだけしか彼女を信じていなかった…。
Hammer
西暦2257年、〈ニュー・ワールド〉。そこは、汚染した地球を旅立った人類がたどり着いた〈新天地〉のはずだった。だが、男たちは頭の中の考えや心の中の想いが、〈ノイズ〉としてさらけ出されるようになり、女は死に絶えてしまう。この星で生まれ、最も若い青年であるトッドは、一度も女性を見たことがない。
ある時、地球からやって来た宇宙船が墜落し、トッドはたった一人の生存者となったヴァイオラと出会い、ひと目で恋におちる。ヴァイオラを捕えて利用しようとする首長のプレンティスから、彼女を守ると決意するトッド。
二人の逃避行の先々で、この星の驚愕の秘密が明らかになっていく──。
Judge
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Doctor
17歳のザック・ソビアックは楽しいことが好きな、音楽の才能を秘めた高校生。だが三年生の年、ずっと好きだった子をデートに誘った後、彼の世界は一変する。癌が転移してしまい、あと6ヵ月しか生きられないことがわかったのだ。残された時間の中で、親友であり音楽パートナーのサミーとともに夢であるアルバムを制作する。彼らは思いもよらず、多くの反響を巻き起こすことになる。病状も悪化していき、ザックは残された時間を誰とどう過ごすのか選択を迫られていた。ついに彼は皆に別れを告げる最高の形は音楽であると気づき、名曲「Clouds」が生まれる。
Moose (segment "Manivald") (voice)
On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait includes eleven complete films: Bassem Ben Brahim's animated "Chromophobia"… Jimi Vall Peterson's "Sleepover" starring Hjalmar Hardestam and Simon Eriksson… Mickey Jones's "Just Me" starring Philip Olivier and Carl Loughlin… Matthew Jacobs Morgan's "Mine" starring Joshua McGuire and John Macmillan… Dale John Allen's "Don't Blame Jack" starring Jordan Tweddle and Kane Surry… Timothy Ryan Hickernell's "Foreign Lovers" co-starring Lucio Nieto… Layke Anderson's "Mankind" starring Ricky Nixon and Alexis Gregory… Christopher Manning's "Isha" starring Horia Săvescu and Dario Coates… Jay Russell's "ruok" starring Peter Mark Kendall, Zachary Booth, and Sydney James Harcourt… Chintis Lundgren's animated "Manivald"… and Zoe McIntosh's "The World In Your Window" starring Joe Folau and David Lolofakangalo Rounds.
Moose (voice)
Manivald is a fox in his early 30s. He is still living at home with his mother. One day a young hot wolf called Toomas comes to fix the washing machine. A love triangle develops between the three of them. Things get out of hand and Manivald realizes that it is time to move out.
Dr. Metcalfe
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
Ronnie
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
Chaplin
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
Dominic Barone
Although a successful romance novelist, Terry Russell hasn't had luck in her own love life. After a disastrous first date with cocky, hot-shot New York chef Matthew Everston, she retreats to her friend's French villa for the summer to finish her latest novel, with her reluctant teenage daughter in tow.
Itak (voice)
Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.
Hoplite Captain
人間や動物が誕生する以前、不老不死の者達が天国で互いに敵対し戦っていた。勝利者達は自らを神と呼び、敗者となったタイタンはタルタロス山の下に封印された。この戦争中、計り知れない力を持つエピロスの弓が地球上でなくなった。紀元前1228年、イラクリオンの人間の王ハイペリオン(ミッキー・ローク)は家族を失った恨みを晴らすため、タイタンを解き放ち神を倒す目的でこの弓を探す。 ゼウスに選ばれた人間テセウスは、人類を滅ぼす武器を手に入れようとギリシャ中で暴れまわる冷酷なハイペリオン王との戦いを指揮する。
Principal Wasney
A woman tries to help her teenage daughter when she becomes the victim of online bullying.
Helman
A rag-tag group, led by the eagle-eyed Steve, take to Montreal's chilly rooftops under cover of night. They're on the prowl for the perfect peep desperate to glimpse a "hottie hookup," a "panty party" or a "big booty buffet" through unshuttered windows. But their lives are about to change. Enter Annette, a brazen academic who turns the tables by setting her sights on the peepers themselves. Soon it's a battle royale for rooftop supremacy will these die-hard obsessives manage to defend their turf, or will peeping as they know it never be the same?
Police Commissioner Cusek
When George and her colleagues get a new boss whose focus is on moving souls quickly and enjoying life without consequences, the team begins to break the strict reaper rules. While her friends fall victim to their desires for money, success, and fame, George breaks another rule by revealing her true identity to her living family.
Detective Lewis
The successful prosecution of a man accused of murdering his wife catapults a young attorneys career into the position of assistant D.A. for a major city. Eight years later, alarming new evidence suggests that the jailed man may actually be innocent of the murder, and now hes gunning for the woman who put him away. Eight years ago, State’s Attorney Megan Washington (Erica Durance) made her career with the high profile conviction of restaurateur William McCauley for the murder of his wife. When nearly a decade later, new evidence emerges which raises doubts about the case, the conviction is overturned and William McCauley is once again a free man, awaiting a new trial and suing Megan and the District Attorney’s office for fifty million dollars. Now, as Megan re-opens the case, she quickly unearths a mystery long since buried and uncovers a secret which has her in danger of losing her career, her relationship and possibly…her life.
Bob
A chance encounter with a homeless man named Bob inspires a workaholic accountant to start a choir at a homeless shelter, allowing him to find a purpose to his life and discover the power of music, while providing the choir members with a chance at a new, better life.
As another Middle East crisis explodes, Adam, a Jewish teenager and Yasmine a Lebanese girl fall in love in Montreal. But the crisis overseas effects their relationship in ways they never expected.
Officer Kingman
Beautiful Allison, 30, has no trouble finding a man. It's keeping them that's the problem...
Mr. Arvin
クリスチャン・ベイル、リチャード・ギアら豪華キャスト共演によるボブ・ディランの伝記映画。詩人や映画スター、革命家など、6人の俳優がそれぞれに異なるイメージ像のディランを演じることで、実像に迫っていく。
Detective Hogue
After years of plotting, Christie vows to get revenge on her uncle, whom she blames for her father's demise.
Persian Emissary
紀元前480年、スパルタ王レオニダスの元にペルシア帝国からの使者が訪れ、スパルタに服従を要求した。レオニダスはこれを拒否し、使者を殺害した。 レオニダスはスパルタ全軍での迎撃を考えていたが、デルポイの神託によって非戦と決定されてしまった。王と言えども神託には従う義務があり、スパルタ評議会も非戦の方針を支持した。 このままではスパルタは戦わずしてペルシア帝国の支配下に入ってしまう。レオニダスは「散歩」と称して300名の親衛隊を率い、ペルシア王クセルクセス率いる100万のペルシア軍の迎撃に向かった。兵力差は圧倒的であったが、スパルタ軍は峻険な山と海に挟まれた狭い街道に布陣して、ペルシア軍が大軍の利を生かし切れないようにした。 ここに、壮絶な死闘となるテルモピュライの戦いが始まる。
Julian Hasty
Holly Winters (Tori Spelling) is an unhappy-in-love, prosecuting attorney. After suffering a serious head injury, she gains the psychic power to read minds and decides to use this new-found power to catch a killer...
Narrator (voice)
From polar bears in the arctic tundra to black bears in the Northern Rockies, you'll see some of the most spectacular footage ever shot of these enterprising omnivores. Catch salmon with a group of hungry grizzlies on the McNeil River in Alaska. Crawl inside a den with a mother black bear and her cubs. Learn about the challenges facing each of these species as their habitat diminishes.
Winston White
Cairon
The Childlike Empress lies in limbo between life and death and the only hope for her kingdom lies in the ability of a young boy to transcend the boundaries of fantasy in this tale of myth and magic that is certain to capture the imagination. As young Bastian opens the pages of "The Neverending Story," he learns that the Childlike Princess is near death and Fantasia is in danger of falling prey to the Dark Princess Xayide. Soon falling through the written page and into a world beyond his wildest imagination, Bastian's alter ego Atreyu must enlist the help of his trusty sidekick Fly Girl and mischievous hucksters Rip Rowdy and Wexlerian if there is any hope of unlocking the mystery of the Southern Oracle and awakening the Childlike Empress to bring order back to Fantasia. Part 4 of 4 in DVD releases
Cairon
The Childlike Empress lies in limbo between life and death and the only hope for her kingdom lies in the ability of a young boy to transcend the boundaries of fantasy in this tale of myth and magic that is certain to capture the imagination. As young Bastian opens the pages of "The Neverending Story," he learns that the Childlike Princess is near death and Fantasia is in danger of falling prey to the Dark Princess Xayide. Soon falling through the written page and into a world beyond his wildest imagination, Bastian's alter ego Atreyu must enlist the help of his trusty sidekick Fly Girl and mischievous hucksters Rip Rowdy and Wexlerian if there is any hope of unlocking the mystery of the Southern Oracle and awakening the Childlike Empress to bring order back to Fantasia. Part 3 of 4 in DVD releases
Archie
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings persistently trampled by the white power structure, in general, and the local branch of the KKK. The story follows the formation of local black men, particularly ex-war veterans who after the struggles become too overbearing organizes the group, "Deacons for defense", an all-black defense group dedicated to patrolling the black section of town and protecting its residents from the more violent aspects of "white backlash."
Arnold Ross
Special Agent Rachel Anderson is charged with protecting a key witness, Richard Harper. But Harper himself is a suspect in several bomb attacks, one of which killed Rachel's partner. Stars Sean Young and Tim Post.
When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry, an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team, a Panther named Charles Henderson (Obba Babatunde), is sentenced to life in prison. Bestselling author Paul Freeman (Modine) offers a creative-writing class in Henderson's prison, initially looking for a story for his next book; but when Henderson becomes his student, Freeman starts to investigate Henderson's case and becomes convinced that, after 20 years, Henderson deserves to be released--but the next step is convincing the sister of the man whose death Henderson is responsible for.
Cairon
The Childlike Empress lies in limbo between life and death and the only hope for her kingdom lies in the ability of a young boy to transcend the boundaries of fantasy in this tale of myth and magic that is certain to capture the imagination. As young Bastian opens the pages of "The Neverending Story," he learns that the Childlike Princess is near death and Fantasia is in danger of falling prey to the Dark Princess Xayide. Soon falling through the written page and into a world beyond his wildest imagination, Bastian's alter ego Atreyu must enlist the help of his trusty sidekick Fly Girl and mischievous hucksters Rip Rowdy and Wexlerian if there is any hope of unlocking the mystery of the Southern Oracle and awakening the Childlike Empress to bring order back to Fantasia.
Cairon
The Childlike Empress lies in limbo between life and death and the only hope for her kingdom lies in the ability of a young boy to transcend the boundaries of fantasy in this tale of myth and magic that is certain to capture the imagination. As young Bastian opens the pages of "The Neverending Story," he learns that the Childlike Princess is near death and Fantasia is in danger of falling prey to the Dark Princess Xayide. Soon falling through the written page and into a world beyond his wildest imagination, Bastian's alter ego Atreyu must enlist the help of his trusty sidekick Fly Girl and mischievous hucksters Rip Rowdy and Wexlerian if there is any hope of unlocking the mystery of the Southern Oracle and awakening the Childlike Empress to bring order back to Fantasia.
Haywood Burns
Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
Dwight Truman
Stranded on a deserted island, a group of people struggle to survive against a swarm of supernatural flies.
Colin Ferguson
On December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Carolyn McCarthy, a woman whose husband is killed and her 26 year old son is severely wounded in the massacre. The result is she is forced out of her comfortable suburban existence and she becomes an out-spoken crusader against assault weapons. The film shifts from her perspective to the mind of the killer and finally to the media frenzy that surrounds both.
Slovitz
A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.
Dr. Gene Washington
A renegade police officer tracks a rapist spreading a deadly virus around 2009 Boston.
Dr. Carpenter
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
Boyd
A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Dr. Nasser
Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.
Stevenson
Candy Sloane, a news reporter that Spenser used to date, hires him out as backup while she investigates a credit card fraud ring that might be operating out of a previously-bankrupt movie company
Hadley
When a young boy dogsits Clyde, a criminal canine trying to go straight, he ends up facing down the school bully, catching a criminal, and learning valuable lessons about life from his new best friend.
Dr. Henry Balmer
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's forced to re-examine her life when she receives the troubling diagnosis.
Ward
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
Juan
David King is an art thief who has retired to devote his time to his daughter on whom he dotes. He hasn't counted, however, on a mysterious gang who don't believe he is ready for retirement and who kidnap his daughter Gillian. If he doesn't do one more heist for them Gillian will be murdered.
Pool side cop
A detective investigates a series of murders that he begins to suspect are being committed by a woman involved in prostitution and narcotics trafficking.
Store Owner
A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
Video Technician
Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, the Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
Jackson
A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.
Train Station Doctor
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
