Tom McCamus

Tom McCamus (born July 251955) is an award-winning Canadian film and theatre actor who is most widely known for his work on the science-fiction television show "Mutant X".

McCamus was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but was brought up in London, Ontario from the age of ten when his family moved across country. While attending London's Oakridge Secondary school, McCamus became intrigued with the theatre, and went on to attend the University of Windsor's school of dramatic art.

His film debut came in director Paul Donovan's quirky time-travel comedy "Norman's Awesome Experience", otherwise known as "A Switch in Time" (1989). In 1991 McCamus gained critical acclaim for his role as a mental patient in the historical drama "Beautiful Dreamers".

McCamus' most noted film role is that of struggling actor Henry Adler in "I Love a Man in Uniform" (1993), directed by David Wellington. As a result of the role, he won the Genie Award for Best Actor. McCamus has been nominated for the Genie Award on two occasions since, for "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (1996), also directed by Wellington, in which McCamus reprised his successful performance as Edmund Tyrone from the Stratford Festival, and for the Oscar-nominated "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997), directed by Atom Egoyan.

Recently McCamus has come 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.

Currently McCamus is dividing his time between theatre and film work, and has recently starred in the CBC film "Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story" as famous hockey dad Walter Gretzky, and in the Ken Finkleman miniseries "At The Hotel".

McCamus is married to theatre and occasional TV actress Chick Reid. They live in Warkworth, Ontario.

Trivia

McCamus got the role of Mason Eckhart in "Mutant X" after being spotted by executives of the Fireworks production company playing a bleached-blond genetic scientist in "Trinity".

Selected Filmography

*"Norman's Awesome Experience" (1989)
*"Beautiful Dreamers" (1990)
*"I Love a Man in Uniform" (1993)
*"Long Day's Journey Into Night" (1996)
*"The Sweet Hereafter" (1997)
*"Possible Worlds" (2000)
*"Foreign Objects" (2000)
*"Mutant X" (2001-2003)
*"The Newsroom" (2004)

External links

* [http://www.tommccamus.cjb.net Tom McCamus: Ground Control, official site.]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564805/ IMDB filmography.]