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SIR WILLIAM HERSCHELL - JAY BRAZEAU
Agent: Murray Gibson - Characters Talent Agency, Vancouver |
In a new departure for Jay, he is singing and dancing in a dress as Edna Turnblad in the Toronto based musical “Hairspray” for Mirvish Prods.
Brazeau was also seen in A Guy Thing, starring Jason Lee and Julia Stiles and also appeared in Steven Spielberg’s mini-series Taken and the feature film Insomnia starring Al Pacino and Robin Williams.
Brazeau’s love affair with acting began when he was a child. “Every Saturday I’d be at the local movie theatre and I was constantly reading about film and film-making”.
His credits are extensive and span almost every entertainment medium from acting on stage and in film, television and radio plays, animated features and series, to writing and directing.
Brazeau completed three seasons with the CTV hit series Cold Squad as the coroner.
He was nominated for a Gemini Award for his work on the series Stargate SG-1, he has also received four Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, plus a Pittsburgh Press Critic’s Award for Best Actor of the Year in 1988.
Recent work on stage includes Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and the 1,000 year-old man in 999, A Saga.
He has impressive feature film credits including Head Over Heels as the lead bad guy opposite Freddie Prinze Jr. and Monica Potter and Double Jeopardy in which he worked opposite Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones.
His most recent work has him a studio head in Murder at the Cannes Film Festival.
Other leading roles include the critically acclaimed feature Kissed which was chosen for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, The Prisoner of Zelda, the pilot for Dead Man’s Gun, as well as co-starring roles in the features Kitchen Party, We’re No Angels with Robert Deniro and Sean Penn, Snow Falling on Cedars with Ethan Hawke and Scott Hicks (Director of Shine), Middlemen plus the award winning Movie of the Week The Diary of Evelyn Lau, the feature Slam Dunk Ernest as well as roles in the features Gold Diggers, Little Women and Andre.
Jay was recently seen in the MOW's The Stranger Beside M", A Very Muppet Christmas and Saint Sinner, plus the pilot for NBC The Legend of Butch and Sundance.
Numerous television credits include guest starring roles on Dead Man's Gun, Young Person's Guide To Be A Rockstar, Mysterious Ways, DaVinci's Inquest, U.C. Undercover, Outer Limits, So Weird, 7 Days, Millenium, Outer Limits, Poltergeist, The Sentinel, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, North of Sixty, Jake and the Kid, My Life as a Dog, The Marshall, The X-Files, The Odyssey and Lonesome Dove. Jay also voices animated projects such as The Playroom, The Big Snit and numerous radio dramas and commercials.
