Greg Kean Explained

Birth Date:September 27, 1962
Birth Place:Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name:Gregory Kean Williams

Gregory Kean Williams (born September 27, 1962) is a Canadian television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Clancy Lass in the television series Dead Like Me.[1]

Early life

Kean was born in Oshawa, Ontario, the son of Dorothy and Rex Williams.[2] He earned an M.F.A. degree from Cornell University.[3]

Career

His first acting role was either a dancing rabbit named "Nibbles" in a grade 5 presentation of the operetta "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" or as another bunny in an Easter play, both at Adelaide McLaughlin Public School in Oshawa, Ontario in 1973.

As a stage actor, Kean has been a resident company member of the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. He also has worked with the Los Angeles Theater Centre and the New Mexico Rep as well as the first Actors' Equity Association sanctioned production of Tony n' Tina's Wedding in Los Angeles. Kean is also an acting teacher and one of the owners of the William Davis Centre for Actors Study in Vancouver, British Columbia[4] along with Dead Like Me colleague Christine Willes. He is currently teaching drama at Southpointe Academy,[5] a private school located in Tsawwassen, British Columbia.

Filmography

Films

Television

Notes and References

  1. "Veteran actor teaching kids how to break into film & TV industry" by Tracy Sherlock, Delta Optimist (16 Sept, 2006) [Final Edition] Retrieved from
  2. http://www.filmreference.com/film/5/Greg-Kean.html Greg Kean Biography (1962-)
  3. "Southpointe staging Comedy of Errors at arts centre" by Dave Willis, Delta Optimist (20 Nov, 2010) Retrieved from
  4. "980s MSU artists that helped open the Wharton Center back home for reunion" by Bridgette Redman, Lansing State Journal (16 June, 2014) Retrieved from
  5. "Southpointe students get nostalgic with premiere of Gone Missing" by Dave Willis, Delta Optimist (11 May, 2011) Retrieved from
  6. "Summer Dreams scratches surface of the nightmare" by Greg Quill, Toronto Star (29 April, 1990) Retrieved from
  7. https://variety.com/1993/tv/reviews/mother-of-the-bride-1200431860/ Mother of the Bride review
  8. https://variety.com/1997/tv/reviews/get-to-the-heart-the-barbara-mandrell-story-1200450973/ Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story review
  9. "A fan favourite resurrected; Four years after the demise of Dead Like Me, the dark drama of an undead teen lives again on DVD" by Alex Strachan, Edmonton Journal (26 April, 2009) Retrieved from
  10. "'Dead Like Me' Does a Body Good" by Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (25 July, 2004) Retrieved from

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