Miklos Perlus

Miklos Perlus (born March 23, 1977) is a Canadian actor, writer, and story editor. Perlus has appeared on Canadian series Student Bodies, Road to Avonlea and Sidekick. He has written for Degrassi: The Next Generation and other series. He has also worked in television program development for several organizations.

Miklos Perlus
Born (1977-03-23) March 23, 1977
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Other namesMik Perlus
Occupations
  • Actor
  • writer
  • story editor[1]
Years active1988present

Biography

Perlus was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[2] He attended McGill University, where he studied Cultural Studies.[1]

Perlus played Victor Kane on Student Bodies,[3] and Peter Craig on Road to Avonlea.[4] Perlus' experience has included a variety of roles in media as a writer, a story editor and he has developed several television productions.[5] He also wrote and co-developed CTV's Instant Star, and served as a writer and story editor for Degrassi: The Next Generation.[5] He was the co-winner of a Writers Guild of Canada award (shared with James Hurst) for an episode of Degrassi.[6]

In 2008, Perlus became Marblemedia's Director of Content Development, where he was responsible for creating, sourcing and developing innovative multi-platform content and bringing them to fruition for television and digital media.[5][7] In 2010, he became voice of Eric for the YTV animated series, Sidekick. From 2014 - 2016 he served as Vice President, Kids and Family at Marblemedia.[8] In 2016, Perlus created and executive produced a live-action family comedy for preschoolers called Opie's Home. In 2017, he joined the animated series Nina's World (PBS Kids Sprout) as supervising producer, after which he joined Pipeline Studios to write and produce Doggy World for Disney Channel Latin America and to write for Elinor Wonders Why and Alma's Way for PBS, the latter of which earned him an Emmy nomination for best writing. In 2021, Perlus joined Moonbug Entertainment as creative producer on the preschool series Cocomelon for Netflix. He also joined WildBrain as creative producer on the reboot of Caillou, producing five CG animated specials and 52 episodes of the series for Peacock.

In 2022, Perlus released an EP of original music called "Ragged Islands" as well as a single called "Joanna."

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Iron Eagle on the Attack New Kid
2000 Lion of Oz Sunbeam (voice)
2001 Nowhere in Sight Sean Finley
2002 Expecting Movie star

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1988 Katts and Dog "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil"
1990–92 Road to Avonlea Peter Craig Recurring role
1991 E.N.G. Jimmy "Ways and Means"
1994 Tales from the Cryptkeeper Vince (voice) "Game Over"
1994–96 Highlander: The Animated Series Quentin MacLeod (voice) Main role
1995 Ready or Not Jamie "Just Friends"
1997–00 Student Bodies Victor Kane Main role
1998-99 Jim Button Jim Button (voice) Main role
2001 Inside the Osmonds Jay Osmond TV film
2001 Vampire High Derek "The Summoning"
2003 Air Master (voice, English version) TV series
2006 Instant Star Brad "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn: Part 1"
2010 Cyberchase Jules (voice) "The Hackers Challenge"
2010–13 Sidekick Eric Needles (voice) Main role

Other work

Year Title Notes
2002 The Legend of Razorback Second assistant director
2004-05 Degrassi: The Next Generation Junior story editor (17 episodes), writer (5 episodes)
2005-08 Instant Star Developer (7 episodes)
2011-12 Splatalot! Developer (26 episodes)
2014 Hi Opie! Developer (39 episodes), writer (9 episodes), associate producer
2015 Open Heart Developer (12 episodes)
2017 Opie's Home Writer (6 episodes)

References

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