Ian Tracey

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Ian Tracey

Born

26 June 1964 (age 43)
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Years active

1976-present

Awards won
Gemini Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series 1999 Milgaard

Ian Tracey (born 26 June 1964) is a Canadian Leo- and Gemini Award-winning actor. Over the years, Tracey has participated in over seventy films and television series. Tracey recently starred in Intelligence, a CBC television series produced by long-time colleague Chris Haddock.

1 Overview
2 Filmography
3 Major television roles
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Overview

Tracey was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. He grew up all around British Columbia's Lower Mainland. A performer at a young age, Tracey started working at 12, playing in the film The Keeper 1976 starring Christopher Lee.^[1]

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 the Leo Award for Best Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama for 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 the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series^[2] and Leo Award for Best Performance by a Male in a Picture^[3] in 1999. 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, as well as one in Intelligence.

Tracey was a series regular on Sweating Bullets (also known as Tropical Heat) 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, The Collector 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. He also appeared as Nova Group leader Daniel Armand in season three of the science fiction series The 4400 and guest-starred as Lincoln Cole in Smallville. In Spring 2007, he filmed the Chinese-Canadian historical miniseries Iron Road with Sam Neill and Peter O'Toole and narrated the making-of documentary for the DVD release of series Huckleberry Finn and His Friends.