Dan Beirne

Daniel Beirne (born August 12, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance as Mackenzie King in the 2019 film The Twentieth Century,[1] for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019[2] and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.[3]

Dan Beirne
Born (1982-08-12) August 12, 1982
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active2006–present

He also starred in the films Great Great Great,[4] Suck It Up,[5] and I Like Movies. He has had television roles as Sonny Greer in Fargo, Gary Goldman in Workin' Moms, Nick in Ginny and Georgia, Tommy in The Guest Book,[6] and the Drive-Thru Guy in Humour Resources, and appeared in the web series Space Riders: Division Earth,[7] The Bitter End,[8] Dad Drives,[9] Ghost BFF[10] and Detention Adventure.

He won a Canadian Screen Award in 2015 as a co-creator and producer of Space Riders: Division Earth, and has won two Canadian Comedy Awards as a writer and creator of Dad Drives[11] and Space Riders: Division Earth.

He has also previously been a music writer and editor of the blog Said the Gramophone, selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 best blogs in the world in 2009.[12][8]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2008 Who Is KK Downey? Charles
2017 Suck It Up Granville
Great Great Great Tom Anderson
2019 The Twentieth Century Mackenzie King
2022 I Like Movies Owen
2023 I Used to Be Funny Tim
2024 One More Time Wayne Regular role

References
  1. Kevin Ritchie, "Review: The Twentieth Century is an absorbing visual delight". Now, December 12, 2019.
  2. "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'" Archived 2020-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. Tri-City News, January 7, 2020.
  3. Norman Wilner, "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show". Now, February 18, 2020.
  4. Norman Wilner, "Great Great Great lives up to that title". Now, October 4, 2017.
  5. Norman Wilner, "Suck It Up deals with pain and death but is weirdly charming". Now, November 30, 2017.
  6. Whitney Friedlander, "With The Guest Book, Greg Garcia Embraces Peak TV's Latest Trend: The Passion Project". Paste, October 22, 2018.
  7. Melita Kuburas, "Starz picks up iThentic’s Space Riders". Playback, September 30, 2014.
  8. Miranda Campbell, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780773588509. pp. 142-147.
  9. Danielle Ng See Quan, "Dad Drives web series gets $10,000 Bite development deal". Playback, May 13, 2013.
  10. Jordan Pinto, "Ghost BFF floats to KindaTV for season two". Playback, Ginny & Georgia, November 22, 2019.
  11. Danielle Ng See Quan, "Goon, Awkward Sexual Adventure win at Canadian Comedy Awards". Playback, October 8, 2013.
  12. "25 Best Blogs 2009". Time. 2009-02-13. Archived from the original on February 20, 2009.
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