Dan Beirne

Dan Beirne
Born (1982-08-12) August 12, 1982 (age 42)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active2006–present

Daniel Beirne (born August 12, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance as William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 2019 film The Twentieth Century,[1] for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019[2] and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.[3]

He also starred in the films Great Great Great,[4] Suck It Up,[5] and I Like Movies. He has had television roles as Sonny Greer in Fargo, Gary Goldman in Workin' Moms, Nick in Ginny and Georgia, Tommy in The Guest Book,[6] and the Drive-Thru Guy in Humour Resources, and appeared in the web series Space Riders: Division Earth,[7] The Bitter End,[8] Dad Drives,[9] Ghost BFF[10] and Detention Adventure.

He won a Canadian Screen Award in 2015 as a co-creator and producer of Space Riders: Division Earth, and has won two Canadian Comedy Awards as a writer and creator of Dad Drives[11] and Space Riders: Division Earth.

He has also previously been a music writer and editor of the blog Said the Gramophone, selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 best blogs in the world in 2009.[12][8]

  1. ^ Kevin Ritchie, "Review: The Twentieth Century is an absorbing visual delight". Now, December 12, 2019.
  2. ^ "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'" Archived 2020-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
  3. ^ Norman Wilner, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show". Now, February 18, 2020.
  4. ^ Norman Wilner, "Great Great Great lives up to that title". Now, October 4, 2017.
  5. ^ Norman Wilner, "Suck It Up deals with pain and death but is weirdly charming". Now, November 30, 2017.
  6. ^ Whitney Friedlander, "With The Guest Book, Greg Garcia Embraces Peak TV's Latest Trend: The Passion Project". Paste, October 22, 2018.
  7. ^ Melita Kuburas, "Starz picks up iThentic’s Space Riders". Playback, September 30, 2014.
  8. ^ a b Miranda Campbell, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780773588509. pp. 142-147.
  9. ^ Danielle Ng See Quan, "Dad Drives web series gets $10,000 Bite development deal". Playback, May 13, 2013.
  10. ^ Jordan Pinto, "Ghost BFF floats to KindaTV for season two". Playback, Ginny & Georgia, November 22, 2019.
  11. ^ Danielle Ng See Quan, "Goon, Awkward Sexual Adventure win at Canadian Comedy Awards". Playback, October 8, 2013.
  12. ^ "25 Best Blogs 2009". Time. 2009-02-13. Archived from the original on February 20, 2009.