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Noah Reid

Noah Reid played Patrick in the global television smash “Schitt’s Creek.” He won a Screen Actors Guild Award along with his cast-mates for Best Ensemble, was nominated three times for a Canadian Screen Award and won the award for Best Supporting Actor/TV Comedy. His soulful acoustic cover of Tina Turner’s Simply the Best in Season 4 landed atop the iTunes charts. An actor since the age of eight, Reid began his career as “Chip” in the Toronto Mirvish production of Beauty and the Beast. Soon after, he originated the voice of the beloved “Franklin the Turtle” in the animated series Franklin. He went on to star in the television series Strange Days at Blake Holesy High and the film Terry, about Terry Fox’s “Marathon of Hope,” all before the age of 18. More recently, Reid starred as the title role on the series Kevin From Work. Other TV credits Backpackers, the miniseries Titanic written by Julian Fellowes, House of Lies, The Firm and Rookie Blue. An accomplished theatre actor, Reid recently starred in the title role of Hamlet at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre and at the Coal Mine Theatre in Annie Baker’s The Aliens and Strindberg’s Creditors. Other notable theatre credits include George F. Walker’s Dead Metaphor (Mirvish/Canadian Rep), John Logan’s Red (Neptune), John Patrick Shanley’s A Woman Is A Secret, David French’s Jitters (Soulpepper) and Morris Panych’s Trespassers, for which he won the prestigious John Hirsch Award given to the most promising actor in the Stratford Festival company. Reid most recently starred in the independent feature films Cardinal, Buffaloedopposite Zoey Deutch and Judy Greer, and Clifton Hill opposite Tuppence Middleton and David Cronenberg. Other notable film credits include Old Stock, Score: A Hockey Musical and People Hold On, for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Song. In 2016, Reid released is debut solo record Songs From A Broken Chair, produced by Juno Award Nominee Matthew Barber. And in 2020, he released his second record Gemini. His forthcoming third record will be released in 2022. Noah next stars in Brian Watkins’ series “Outer Range” opposite Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots and Lewis Pullman for Amazon due out next year.