Dennis O'Connor(I)
- Actor
Bilingual actor, born and raised in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region of
Québec. He studied acting at the Actors' Studio in Montreal. Dennis has
brought his linguistic versatility to many productions across Canada.
He has premièred roles by some of the country's finest writers,
including Michel Tremblay, John Murrell, George F. Walker, David
Fennario and Daniel MacIvor. He has also played the über-everyman on
television and film in which he's had his fair share of bumbling cops. A
character actor, O'Connor finds artistic challenges mostly on the
stage. His classical roles have included Tartuffe for Théâtre français
de Toronto; and Falstaff in an indie production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One.
For several summers, he incarnated Leopold Bloom in the James
Joyce ''Ulysses'' / Bloomsday celebrations in Toronto and a broadcast from Berlin on Deutsche Welle. In these roles which
require great verbal and emotional dexterity, he has demonstrably been up to the challenge. He is most notably
remembered for his role as Gaston Talbot in Larry Tremblay's solo piece: The
Dragonfly of Chicoutimi. He created the English language première of
Michel Tremblay's Narrator in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again
(Encore une fois, si vous le permettez), which toured nationally in the 1999-2000 Theatre season. He will perform in
"disguise room", a solo piece written for him by e. hughes for
SeeshoplaytrickS, in Berlin, Germany. He is a veteran of hundreds of narrations and commercial voice-overs as well as over three
hundred radio dramas for CBC / Radio-Canada. O'Connor has had 4 Best
Actor nominations for Toronto's Dora Theatre Awards.
