Philip Akin

Birthday: 1950-04-18
Birthplace: Kingston, Jamaica
Gender: Male
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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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Credits

Year Title Character
2018-10-20 Love, of Course Edward Seton
2014-01-30 RoboCop Dr. Alan
2010-12-01 Who Is Clark Rockefeller? Det. Lewis Cook
2009-01-31 The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love Jules Grandfield
2007-11-09 P2 Karl
2007-09-28 Shake Hands with the Devil Kofi Annan
2007-04-03 Bottom Feeder Sarge
2006-12-03 A Dad for Christmas Richard
2006-09-11 Absolution Dr. Mitch Powell
2005-12-06 Knights of the South Bronx Assistant Principal Allen Hill
2005-11-09 Get Rich or Die Tryin' Reverend
2005-10-01 Burnt Toast Lou
2005-09-08 The Man Second I.A. Agent
2005-06-17 The Perfect Man English Teacher
2004-03-23 The Skulls III Captain Harlan
2003-07-18 How to Deal
2003-03-16 Mafia Doctor Dr. Lawrence
2002-12-21 Everybody's Doing It Principal Kerr
2002-05-31 The Sum of All Fears General Wilkes
2002-04-15 Cube 2: Hypercube The General
2002-02-10 The Red Sneakers Mr. Seabrooke
2002-01-12 Pretend You Don't See Her Witness Protection Agent
2001-01-24 Blackout First Official
2000-12-04 Range of Motion Flozell
2000-10-30 Left Behind Alan Tompkins
2000-08-28 Custody of the Heart Police Officer
2000-08-06 One Kill Gunnery Sgt. Finch
2000-07-16 Who Killed Atlanta's Children? Police Spokesman
1999-09-12 P.T. Barnum Jeremiah
1999-05-12 To Love, Honor, & Betray Det. Gonda
1999-02-14 Deep in My Heart OB-Gyn doctor
1999-01-12 Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion Desk Sargeant
1999-01-04 The Wrong Girl Police Detective Jacobs
1998-12-25 Down in the Delta Manager
1998-09-07 Giving Up the Ghost Judge Gleason
1998-07-23 Airborne
1998-02-01 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ESU lieutenant
1997-09-07 Color of Justice New York Assistant D.A
1997-09-06 The Don's Analyst Dr. Lustig
1997-08-12 Elvis Meets Nixon Cabbie
1997-02-16 ...First Do No Harm
1996-10-20 Talk to Me Public Defender
1996-09-13 Fly Away Home Air Force Reporter
1996-04-10 The Haunting of Lisa Sgt. Hill
1996-02-18 Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice Det. Arthur Brown
1996-01-01 The Conspiracy of Fear Patterson
1994-02-21 Highlander: Unholy Alliance Charlie DeSalvo
1993-06-22 Du lügst Dr. Kerr
1992-09-20 Terror on Track 9 Reporter #2
1991-09-11 Married to It Limo Driver
1991-04-16 F/X2 Detective McQuay
1989-08-25 Millennium Briley
1988-03-05 Switching Channels Guard
1987-09-25 Blue Monkey Anthony Rivers
1987-09-01 Nightstick Price
1987-07-17 Nowhere to Hide Harvey
1987-03-27 Pretty Kill Joey
1986-12-22 Christmas Eve Mays
1986-10-29 The High Price of Passion Locksmith
1986-07-08 Easy Prey Blair
1984-04-13 Iceman Dr. Vermeil
1984-01-13 Covergirl Cairo
1982-10-27 Shock-Trauma Sam Hooker
1981-12-12 A Far Cry From Home
1980-01-01 Deadline Student #1
1979-10-30 Running Chuck Stone
1979-07-05 Search and Destroy Rosie Washington