Thom Allison is a Canadian actor.^[1] He is best known for his regular recurring role as Pree in the television series Killjoys,^[2] for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.^[3]

Biography

Allison was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba as the son of a Black Nova Scotian father and a Mennonite mother.^[4]

Education and career

Allison graduated from the acting program offered at Ryerson Theatre School .^[5] Beginning his career in the early 1990s, Allison eventually went on to act for film, television and theatre alike.^[6]

Primarily a stage actor, he first attained prominence for his performance as Robin Turner in Canadian Stage's 2000 stage adaptation of Outrageous!,^[1] for which he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role – Musical in 2001.^[7] He has also frequently appeared in productions at the Shaw Festival and the Stratford Festival, and in touring productions of Rent and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,^[8] and appeared as drag queen Therese in the first episode of Kim's Convenience.^[9]

In 2003, Allison produced a solo CD A Whole Lotta Sunlight covering famous songs including "Moon River" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".^[10]

In 2019, Allison and Micah Barnes collaborated on Knishes 'n Grits, a stage show in which they explored the links between Jewish music and African American music.^[11]

Filmography

Stage

Awards and nominations

Allison won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Pree in the television series Killjoys.^[2] He was also the recipient of two Tyrone Guthrie Awards presented by the Stratford Festival Company.^[5]

Over the course of his career, Allison was nominated for various Canadian Theatre Awards including three Dora awards, two Bettys, two Jessies, an Ovation, and a Sterling.^[5]

References

External links

• Thom Allison at IMDb