🎬Philip Akin

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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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	RoboCop (2014)	Dr. Alan		6.4
2	Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010)	Det. Lewis Cook		7
3	The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love (2009)	Jules Grandfield		6
4	P2 (2007)	Karl		6.3
5	Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)	Kofi Annan	-	-
6	The Perfect Man (2005)	English Teacher		6
7	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)	Reverend		6.1
8	The Man (2005)	Second I.A. Agent		7.1
9	The Skulls III (2004)	Captain Harlan		4.5
10	How to Deal (2003)	-		6
11	Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)	The General		6.2
12	The Sum of All Fears (2002)	General Wilkes		6.5
13	Pretend You Don't See Her (2002)	Witness Protection Agent	-	-
14	Hitched (2001)	Judge	-	-
15	The Judge (2001)	Mel Paroff	-	-
16	Left Behind (2000)	Alan Tompkins		9
17	P.T. Barnum (1999)	Jeremiah	-	-
18	Pushing Tin (1999)	Paul		7
19	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)	ESU lieutenant	-	-
20	Down in the Delta (1998)	Manager	-	-
21	One Tough Cop (1998)	Inspector Cheney	-	-
22	...First Do No Harm (1997)	-		10
23	Fly Away Home (1996)	Air Force Reporter		6.6
24	The Ref (1994)	State Trooper		7.5
25	F/X2 (1991)	Detective McQuay		7
26	Stella (1990)	Police Officer	-	-
27	Millennium (1989)	Briley		6.5
28	Pretty Kill (1987)	Joey	-	-
29	Blue Monkey (1987)	Anthony Rivers	-	-
30	Christmas Eve (1986)	Mays		10
31	The High Price of Passion (1986)	Locksmith	-	-
32	Iceman (1984)	Dr. Vermeil		7.5
33	Covergirl (1984)	Cairo	-	-