(February 16, 2024 – Toronto, ON) In 1953, a few years after Philip Akin was born in Jamaica, his parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario. Philip and his brothers followed the next year. Very little is known of his early years, but shortly after attending high school, Akin enrolled at the Ryerson Institute of Technology (now Toronto Metropolitan University) in Toronto. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. His film and television career began three years later.
Today Philip Akin is a busy character and voice actor and theatre director who remains active in Canadian theatre, film and television.
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