Philip Akin

Known for ActingBorn 1950-04-18 (age 76)Kingston, Jamaica

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force. Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived there ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1983 Akin began studying Yoshinkan Aikido and is presently a 5th degree black belt in that art. He has also trained in Jing Mo Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan. Akin first came to prominence in the early 1980s when he performed on the zany comedy series Bizarre. Other recognizable roles include computer expert Norton Drake from War of the Worlds, a Canadian television series that went off the air in 1990. His recurring role as Charlie DeSalvo in Highlander: The Series has also brought him much recognition. In Shake Hands with the Devil he portrays Kofi Annan, then United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In 2007, Akin will be performing at the Stratford Festival of Canada, a prestigious summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He is cast in the title role of William Shakespeare’s Othello, and also in the role of Crooks in the Festival’s rendition of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. Phil Akin can also be seen in a long list of guest appearances on television series filmed in Canada, for example: F/X: The Series, Mutant X, and most recently, Flashpoint (2008). Akin is a founding member and currently the Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre Company, a Canadian theatre company comprising seasoned actors of African descent, devoted to the work of blacks. Akin is divorced, with one child. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Akin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Shock-Trauma

H2O

A Far Cry From Home

Monster Force

Improper Channels

The Conspiracy of Fear

The Expanse

X-Men

Burnt Toast

This Is Wonderland

Caitlin's Way

Goosebumps

Lost Girl

Warehouse 13

Doc

Flashpoint

ReGenesis

Highlander: The Series

Shake Hands with the Devil

One Kill

Friday the 13th: The Series

Knights of the South Bronx

Elvis Meets Nixon

P.T. Barnum

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice

Talk to Me

Search and Destroy

Fly Away Home

Love, of Course

...First Do No Harm

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Deep in My Heart

Relic Hunter

Mutant X

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

A Dad for Christmas

Easy Prey

Christmas Eve

Pretend You Don't See Her

Puppets Who Kill

The High Price of Passion

Running

The Ref

The Sum of All Fears

Nowhere to Hide

Giving Up the Ghost

War of the Worlds