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John Emmet Tracy

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John Emmet Tracy
Vancouver's most cosmopolitan street - Commercial Drive - is the nexus for Carolyn Combs' compassionate and heartfelt ensemble drama, a film about home, displacement, community, isolation, and solidarity. Unfolding over the course of just one day, the film hinges on Constanza (Carmen Aguirre), a Chilean refugee and activist whose relationship with her daughter is stress-tested by serious health concerns they would rather not have to confront. But this is just one thread amidst an Altmanesque carnival of characters from myriad walks of life: artists, hustlers, restauranteurs, and the coffee house consiglieri who converge on the Drive on a daily basis. Viva East Van!
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John Emmet Tracy is an American theatre, film and television actor. The second of four children, he was born in Chicago and raised in both Chicago and Milwaukee. As a child, he was drawn to acting by an early love for storytelling. He formed his first theatrical partnership at the age of seven with his sister Kristin, and the duo became famous throughout their basement for vaudevillian cabaret shows. John's further theatrical renown came with performances in such roles as a Lactobacillus Acidophilus bacteria in his second grade tooth decay pageant, a riveting turn as Mr. History Book, and eventually as a Tree, for which he was critically acclaimed for his stillness.

Expanding on this early repertoire, John has since worked extensively in theatre, film and television. He has performed on stages throughout the world, including Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, where he was selected as a company member of the Globe's International Actors' Fellowship, and in Japan, where he toured as the title role in Hamlet. He has appeared in over 100 productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Richard B. Sheridan, Arthur Miller, Christopher Fry, John Patrick Shanley, Neil Simon and Conor McPherson among many others. He is the recipient of the 2013 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role for his work in Pi Theatre's production of Mark O'Rowe's Terminus. John is also the creator of The 24 Hour Shakespeare Project, for which he performed continuously for 24 straight hours in all 38 of Shakespeare's plays to raise money for British Columbia Children's Hospital.

His film work includes appearances in Fifty Shades Freed (2018), If I Stay (2014), American Mary (2012), Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story (2016) and Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016). He portrayed Edgar John Brandon, father of Mary Alice Brandon in The Mary Alice Brandon File (2015), the winning entry into The Storytellers: New Voices Of Twilight Saga, a filmmaking competition created by Twilight Saga author Stephenie Meyer to offer aspiring female filmmakers the opportunity to direct short films based on characters from the Twilight universe.

He has performed lead, recurring and supporting roles in many television shows, including Altered Carbon (2018), iZombie (2015), The Man in the High Castle (2015), Supernatural (2005), Smallville (2001), When Calls the Heart (2014), ReBoot: The Guardian Code (2018), Fringe (2008), Olympus (2015), The Killing (2011), Continuum (2012), Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2014), Sanctuary (2008), Psych (2006), Fairly Legal (2011) and The Dead Zone (2002).

He portrayed Thomas Jefferson in both Assassin's Creed III (2012) and Assassin's Creed III: The Tyranny of King Washington (2013), the third installment and DLC respectively, of the multiple award winning and critically acclaimed video game series. He has also appeared in multiple commercials, music videos and voice-overs.

John received his education and training at Rose Bruford College, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre, as well as at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York.
BornJuly 2, 1969
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John Emmet Tracy at an event for Bela Ciao! (2018)
John Emmet Tracy as Pallas in Olympus
John Emmet Tracy as Scorn in Divine: The Series
John Emmet Tracy in iZombie
Sylvia Soska, Jen Soska, Katharine Isabelle and John Emmet Tracy at the London Premiere for American Mary
John Emmet Tracy in "The Arsonist."
John Emmet Tracy as Edgar John Brandon.
Sarah Shahi, John Emmet Tracy, and Teana-Marie Smith in Fairly Legal (2011)
John Emmet Tracy in Yellowstone
Timothy Carhart, Katie Cockrell and John Emmet Tracy in Yellowstone
Wendy Moniz-Grillo and John Emmet Tracy in Yellowstone
Annette Ciavarella, John Emmet Tracy, Cole Hauser and Luke Grimes in Yellowstone

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Kevin Costner in Yellowstone (2018)
Yellowstone
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TV Series
  • Ellis Steele
Javicia Leslie in Batwoman (2019)
Batwoman
3.4
TV Series
  • August Cartwright
Rose McIver in iZombie (2015)
iZombie
7.8
TV Series
  • Enzo Lambert
Joel Kinnaman in Altered Carbon (2018)
Altered Carbon
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TV Series
  • Warden Sullivan

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  • The Tunnel
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  • Kevin Costner in Yellowstone (2018)
    Yellowstone
  • Canadian Reflections (1978)
    Canadian Reflections
  • Matchmaker Mysteries (2019)
    Matchmaker Mysteries
  • Jack O'Connell and Olivia Cooke in Little Fish (2020)
    Little Fish
    • (uncredited)
  • Javicia Leslie in Batwoman (2019)
    Batwoman
  • Open for Submissions (2019)
    Open for Submissions
  • Aurora Teagarden Mysteries (2015)
    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries
  • Rose McIver in iZombie (2015)
    iZombie
  • Ada (2019)
    Ada
  • Aidan Gillen and Michael Malarkey in Project Blue Book (2019)
    Project Blue Book
  • Michael Shanks, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Ricardo Ortiz in Unspeakable (2019)
    Unspeakable
  • Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe in Living Shame (2019)
    Living Shame
  • Carmen Aguirre, Karen Wong, Andrew Forbes, Carla Jones, Carolyn Combs, Michael Springate, Victor Martinez Aja, and Robert Murphy in Bella Ciao! (2018)
    Bella Ciao!
  • The Whistler (2018)
    The Whistler
  • Supernatural (2005)
    Supernatural
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The Hollow Child
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The Hollow Child
Grace: The Possession
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Grace: The Possession
The Whistler teaser trailer
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The Whistler teaser trailer
Lions, Tigers, Bears
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Lions, Tigers, Bears
Official Trailer #1 for April 10, 2019 Theatrical Premiere, Canada
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Official Trailer #1 for April 10, 2019 Theatrical Premiere, Canada
Official Trailer - THE HOLLOW CHILD
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Official Trailer - THE HOLLOW CHILD
Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story - Official Trailer
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Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story - Official Trailer

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    • July 2, 1969
    • Chicago, Illinois, USA

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    Earned a bachelor's degree in Theatre from Rose Bruford College-University of Manchester. Also trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the National Shakespeare Conservatory.

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