Ian Tracey
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Ian Tracey (born 26 June 1964 in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada), is a Canadian Leo and Gemini Award -winning actor. Over the years, Tracey has participated in over seventy films and television series. Currently, as of October 15, 2006, Tracey is starring in Intelligence, a CBC television series produced by long-time colleague Chris Haddock.
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[edit] Overview
Tracey grew up all around B.C.'s lower mainland. A performer at a young age, Tracey started working in television at 14, playing the lead in the series Huckleberry Finn and Friends in 1978.
Tracey's recent feature film credits include Prozac Nation, Owning Mahowny, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Costner's western Open Range and Christopher Nolan's 2001 thriller Insomnia. In 1999 Tracey won a Leo Award (Best Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama) for his performance in the film Rupert's Land .
Tracey has appeared in a number of movies-of-the-week, including starring in the title role of Milgaard, for which he won both Gemini and Leo Awards for Best Actor. Other television movies include The Rookies, for which he received a 1991 Gemini nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2000 for his portrayal of the talented Homicide Detective Mick Leary in the Canadian TV series Da Vinci's Inquest. He also directed two episodes in that television series.
Tracey was a series regular on Sweating Bullets and had a recurring lead on The Commish. He was also seen in Taken and has guest starred on Smallville, Dark Angel, The Sentinel, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Highlander: The Series and Mom P.I.
In 2005-6 Tracey was in the TV mini-series Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story and Intelligence, a CBC Television series about the interactions between organized crime and government intelligence services. In Intelligence Tracey plays the head of a third-generation crime family that built its fortune on rum-running before turning to heroin and weed.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Eureka (1984)
- The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
- Fire With Fire (1986)
- Stakeout (1987)
- Trust in Me (1994)
- Timecop (1994)
- The War Between Us (1995)
- Man with a Gun (1995)
- Carpool (1996)
- Rupert's Land (1998)
- Milgaard(1999) (TV)
- Touched (1999)
- Dangerous Attraction (2000)
- Prozac Nation (2001)
- Insomnia (2002)
- Cellmates (2003)
- Owning Mahowny (2003)
- Open Range (2003)
- Emile (2003)
- Elektra (2005)
[edit] Major television roles
- Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (1979) (Huckleberry Finn)
- Conspiracy of Silence (1991) (Dwayne Johnston)
- The Commish (1991) (Officer Jon Hibbs)
- Sweating Bullets (1991) (Spider Garvin)
- Fly by Night (1991) (Berry the Rat)
- The X-Files: "The Walk" (TV) (1995)
- Da Vinci's Inquest (1998) (Detective Mick Leary)
- Taken (2002) (Bill Walker)
- Da Vinci's City Hall (2005) (Coroner Mick Leary)
- Intelligence (2006) (Jimmy Reardon)
