Pierre Simpson

Pierre is an ACTRA & Rideau Award-winning and Gémeaux and Dora (Toronto's Tonys) Award-nominated professional bilingual actor. Pierre's charm has been delighting audiences in both of Canada's official languages for over 25 years, making him a very busy stage & screen actor across the country. Pierre hails from Welland, Ontario, proud son of public school teachers Clara and Stewart Simpson and is a graduate of the University of Ottawa's bilingual Theatre Department. Film credits include Rosie (Canada's Top Ten at TIFF), Last Patrol, The Rarebit Fiend, Let the Daylight into the Swamp (NFB, TIFF). Television credits include Law & Order Toronto (CityTV), Three Pines (Amazon), Transplant & Hannibal (NBC), Paris Paris, The Detectives, Murdoch Mysteries, The Border (CBC), 12 Monkeys, Fugitive at 17 (Showcase), Reign, Nikita (CW), Makinium, Mehdi&Val, Motel Monstre (Radio-Canada), Météo+ and Le Rêve de Champlain (TFO), as well as many bilingual training videos and hosting live events. His skilled voice work has been featured in Night of the Zoopocalypse (Copperheart/House of Cool), Red Ketchup (Adult Swim & Télétoon), Globies, Let's Go Luna! (PBS) and Hyper Scape (Ubisoft). English Theatre credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage), When it Rains (2b theatre International Tour, Edinburgh, Mumbai), Strawberries in January (Great Canadian Theatre Company), It's A Wonderful Life (Theatre New Brunswick), The Bookshop, a reading of Look Back in Anger (The National Arts Centre), Dangerous Liaisons (Third Wall Theatre), and A Thought in Three Parts (SummerWorks). French Theatre credits include La Cantatrice chauve, Dom Juan, Les Médecins de Molière (Rideau Award, Dora Award nomination for Outstanding Performance) L'Emmerdeur, Le Dîner de Cons and Le Misanthrope (Théâtre français de Toronto) as well adapting and directing La plus grosse poutine du monde and Les Zinspirés 1, 2.0 and 3D which earned him nominations for the Pauline McGibbon and John Hirsch Awards for Emerging Directors. His adaptation of Au grand jour (Outside) by Paul Dunn toured British Columbia and was featured as an audiodrama on Théâtrophone.