John Emmet Tracy

In over thirty years as an actor John has worked extensively in theatre film television and voiceovers He has performed on stages throughout the world including Shakespeares Globe Theatre in London where he was selected as a company member of the Globes International Actors Fellowship and in Japan where he toured as the title role in Hamlet He has appeared in over one hundred productions and is the recipient of the 2013 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role for his work in Pi Theatres production of Mark ORowes Terminus John is also the creator of The 24 Hour Shakespeare Project for which he performed continuously for twentyfour straight hours in all thirtyeight of Shakespeares plays to raise money for British Columbia Childrens Hospital His film work includes appearances in Fifty Shades Freed If I Stay American Mary Stagecoach The Texas Jack Story and Steven Spielbergs The BFG He has performed lead recurring and supporting roles in many television shows including Altered Carbon iZombie The Man in the High Castle Supernatural Smallville When Calls the Heart The Killing Continuum Girlfriends Guide to Divorce and Sanctuary John received his education and training at Rose Bruford College where he earned a Bachelors Degree in Theatre as well as at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art RADA in London and the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York He has directed over thirty theatre productions and has been teaching for twenty years in colleges conservatories and studios in Canada and the United States