Walter Borden | |
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 Borden in 2018 | |
| Born | Walter Marven Borden July 20, 1942 New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, poet, playwright |
Walter Marven Borden, CM ONS (born July 20, 1942) is a Canadian actor, poet, and playwright. He is originally from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.[1] His film and television credits include Nurse.Fighter.Boy, The Event, Gerontophilia, Lexx and Platinum.
Most prominent as a stage actor, he joined Halifax's Neptune Theatre company in 1972.[2] He has since appeared in stage productions across Canada, including William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Henry VIII, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies, James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet and The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God.[2] Since 2003, he has been a member of the Stratford Festival of Canada.[2]
He has also recorded and released an album, Walter Borden Reads Shakespeare's Sonnets to the Music of Fernando Sor, in collaboration with classical guitarist Paul Martell.
- ^ "Poet radical: The adventures of Walter Borden. Xtra!, October 30, 2003.
- ^ a b c Dawn Williams, Who's Who in Black Canada, Volume 2, p. 73. 2006. ISBN 0973138424.