Philip Akin

Acting

Born Apr 18, 1950

From Kingston, Jamaica

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force. Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived there ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1983 Akin began studying Yoshinkan Aikido and is presently a 5th degree black belt in that art. He has also trained in Jing Mo Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan. Akin first came to prominence in the early 1980s when he performed on the zany comedy series Bizarre. Other recognizable roles include computer expert Norton Drake from War of the Worlds, a Canadian television series that went off the air in 1990. His recurring role as Charlie DeSalvo in Highlander: The Series has also brought him much recognition. In Shake Hands with the Devil he portrays Kofi Annan, then United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In 2007, Akin will be performing at the Stratford Festival of Canada, a prestigious summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He is cast in the title role of William Shakespeare’s Othello, and also in the role of Crooks in the Festival’s rendition of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. Phil Akin can also be seen in a long list of guest appearances on television series filmed in Canada, for example: F/X: The Series, Mutant X, and most recently, Flashpoint (2008). Akin is a founding member and currently the Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre Company, a Canadian theatre company comprising seasoned actors of African descent, devoted to the work of blacks. Akin is divorced, with one child. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Akin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Philip Akin

Known For

RoboCop

The Sum of All Fears

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Pushing Tin

Iceman

P2

F/X2

Cube 2: Hypercube

Fly Away Home

The Man

Filmography — Acting

RoboCop

The Sum of All Fears

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Pushing Tin

Iceman

P2

F/X2

Cube 2: Hypercube

Fly Away Home

The Man

The Perfect Man

The Ref

The Stupids

Stella

Millennium

Left Behind

How to Deal

Mistrial

The Judge

Blue Monkey

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Married to It

Nowhere to Hide

Deadline

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion

Absolution

Switching Channels

Easy Prey

Shake Hands with the Devil

Bottom Feeder

Blackout

The Conspiracy of Fear

...First Do No Harm

Down in the Delta

The Red Sneakers

Airborne

Giving Up the Ghost

Christmas Eve

The Don's Analyst

Love, of Course

Knights of the South Bronx

A Dad for Christmas

To Love, Honor, & Betray

Who Killed Atlanta's Children?

Color of Justice

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice

One Tough Cop

Hitched

Burnt Toast

Running

Liar, Liar

Terror on Track 9

P.T. Barnum

The Haunting of Lisa

Talk to Me

Ms. Scrooge

Custody of the Heart

Highlander: Unholy Alliance

Everybody's Doing It

The Wrong Girl

Mafia Doctor

Love Rules!

Covergirl

Improper Channels

Pretty Kill

The High Price of Passion