Peter Shinkoda is a Canadian film and television actor who stars on TNT

TNT

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's new science fiction

Science fiction

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 series Falling Skies

Falling Skies

Falling Skies is an American science fiction dramatic television series created by Robert Rodat and produced by Steven Spielberg. The series picks up six months into a world devastated by an alien invasion...

 from Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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 and the Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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 webseries Mortal Kombat: Legacy

Mortal Kombat: Legacy

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 directed by Kevin Tancharoen

Kevin Tancharoen

Kevin Harwick Tancharoen is an American dancer, choreographer, television producer and film director. On September 29, 2011 New Line/Warner Bros have announced that Kevin Tancharoen, will helm a big-screen adaptation of Mortal Kombat to be released sometime in 2013.-Life and career:Tancharoen was...

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Early Life

Shinkoda was born and raised in Montreal

Montreal

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. Though family and friends encouraged him to be practical and pursue a career in engineering or medicine, he was focused on an entertainment career from a young age. His first attempt at acting came when he forced his parents to drive six hours to Toronto

Toronto

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 to attend an international casting call for the role of Short Round in Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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’s film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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. The audition led nowhere at the time, leaving Shinkoda to focus on sports, excelling at hockey, skiing, football, baseball, soccer and judo. He also studied classical piano and was identified as one of the top young pianists in Canada by the time he was 13 years old.

Education

At 18, Shinkoda moved to Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 to stay with relatives, but only stayed a year, leaving to attend the University of Western Ontario

University of Western Ontario

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 to pursue a Civil Engineering degree. He began spending summers in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 and eventually made the transition to study Post Production for Film and Television at UCLA. He then went on to work as an assistant editor on such films as Romeo Must Die

Romeo Must Die

Romeo Must Die is a 2000 martial arts film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. Starring Jet Li, Aaliyah, Anthony Anderson, Delroy Lindo, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, and features action and fight choreography by Corey Yuen...

, Rat Race (film)

Rat Race (film)

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, Freddie Got Fingered and Saving Silverman

Saving Silverman

Saving Silverman is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan. It stars Jason Biggs, Steve Zahn, Jack Black and Amanda Peet. Neil Diamond has a cameo role playing himself...

, although he never finished any of the editing projects as acting assignments always arose to supersede them. Shinkoda once studied acting at the East-West Players Conservatory, and earned a lead role in the Northwest Asian American Theater’s production of “Exit the Dragon,” by Eric Michael Zee, produced by Ming-Na

Ming-Na

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Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	If Looks Could Kill	French Club	Film
1995	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an American live-action children's television series based on the 16th installment of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. Both the show and its related merchandise saw unbridled overnight success, catapulting into pop culture in mere months...	Ferrian	Television
1995	Masked Rider Masked Rider (TV series) Masked Rider is an American adaptation of the Japanese television series Kamen Rider Black RX, the ninth in a line of series in the popular Kamen Rider Series franchise. It was produced by Saban and aired on FOX part of the Fox Kids program block from September 16, 1995 to August 31, 1996 and then...	Ferrian	Television
2000	Da Vinci's Inquest Da Vinci's Inquest Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....	Various roles	Television
2001	Cold Squad Cold Squad Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...	Informant 591	Television
2001	Crash and Byrnes	Victor	Television
2001	Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat Sagwa is the name of a cat in the children's book Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat by author Amy Tan. Sagwa's popularity with children prompted an educational animated series of the same name on PBS Kids, with production held by French animation studio CineGroupe and Sesame Street creator Sesame...	Various Characters, Voice	Television
2001	Gadget and the Gadgetinis Gadget and the Gadgetinis Gadget and the Gadgetinis is a spinoff of the classic series Inspector Gadget, developed by DiC in cooperation with Haim Saban's SIP Animation and produced from 2001 to 2003. There are 52 episodes.-Plot:...	Suzuki, Voice	Television
2002	Dark Angel Dark Angel (TV series) Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons...	Albino X	Television
2002	The Real World Movie: The Lost Season The Real World Movie: The Lost Season The Real World Movie: The Lost Season is a 2002 made-for-TV fiction movie produced by MTV, poking fun at their reality series The Real World.-Plot:...	Keith	Scripted TV Movie
2003	Andromeda Andromeda (TV series) Andromeda is a Canadian-American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt...	Burke	Television
2003	Paycheck Paycheck (film) Paycheck is a 2003 film adaptation of the short story of the same name by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. The film was directed by John Woo and stars Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman and Aaron Eckhart...	Suit	Film
2004	Miracle Miracle (film) Miracle is a 2004 American biographical sports film about the United States men's hockey team, led by head coach Herb Brooks, that won the gold medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics. The USA team's victory over the heavily favored Soviet team in the medal round was dubbed the Miracle on Ice...	Japanese Athlete	Film
2004	Kingdom Hospital Kingdom Hospital Kingdom Hospital is a thirteen-episode television miniseries based on Lars von Trier's The Kingdom , which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television...	Anesthesiologist	Television
2004	The Truth About Miranda	Male Model
2004	10.5	Drill Tech #2	TV Miniseries
2004	I, Robot I, Robot (film) I, Robot is a 2004 science-fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The screenplay was written by Jeff Vintar, Akiva Goldsman and Hillary Seitz, and is very loosely based on Isaac Asimov's short-story collection of the same name. Will Smith stars in the lead role of the film as Detective Del...	Chin	Film
2004	Lucky Stars	Peter	Film
2004-2005	The L Word The L Word The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...	Bryan Karikawa	Television
2005	Stephen King's Dead Zone The Dead Zone (TV series) The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone is an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma...	Duffy	Television
2005	Supernatural Supernatural (TV series) Supernatural is an American supernatural and horror television series created by Eric Kripke, which debuted on September 13, 2005 on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the brothers as they...	Alex	Television
2006	Spymate Spymate Spymate is a 2006 Canadian film starring Chris Potter. It was released to Canadian theatres on February 24, 2006, and on DVD in North America on April 11, 2006.-Plot:...	Mountain Guard #2	Film
2006	Stargate SG-1 Stargate SG-1 Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...	Caledonian Aide	Television
2006	Man About Town	Agency Assistant	Film
2007	Sanctuary	Andy Fetz	TV mini-series
2007	War	Harbor Yanagawa Shatei	Film
2007	Battle in Seattle Battle in Seattle Battle in Seattle is a 2007 film and the directorial debut of actor Stuart Townsend. It is based on the protest activity at the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999...	Protester (uncredited)	Film
2008	Filminute 2008 Filminute Filminute is the international one-minute film festival dedicated to presenting, promoting and awarding the world's best one-minute films. Filminute was founded in 2005 and the inaugural festival ran in September 2006...	Host	TV Movie
2009	The Hole The Hole (2009 film) The Hole 3D is a 2009 American fantasy-thriller film directed by Joe Dante and stars Teri Polo, Chris Massoglia and Haley Bennett.-Plot:...	Young Cop	Film
2010	Riverworld Riverworld (2010 film) - Caretakers :The caretakers appear as blue-skinned robe-clad figures who watch over the humans. They were the beings who created Riverworld and are occasionally described as "demons." The caretakers are mostly divided between two separate factions: the Salvationists and the Second Chancers -...	Yoshinaka	TV Movie
2011	Mortal Kombat: Legacy Mortal Kombat: Legacy Mortal Kombat: Legacy is an American web series anthology that debuted on Machinima.com's YouTube channel on April 11, 2011. The show is an adaptation of the fictional universe of the Mortal Kombat video game franchise...	Sektor	Webseries
2011	Falling Skies Falling Skies Falling Skies is an American science fiction dramatic television series created by Robert Rodat and produced by Steven Spielberg. The series picks up six months into a world devastated by an alien invasion...	Dai	Television