Yannick Bisson is a Canadian film and television actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

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Career

Born in Montréal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada, Bisson moved to Toronto

Toronto

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 as a teenager and there he began acting lessons; he has been acting since the age of 13. His big break was in CBC

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

's critically acclaimed 1984 movie of the week Hockey Night with Megan Follows

Megan Follows

Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows is a Canadian/American actress. She is most known to international audiences for her role as Anne Shirley in the acclaimed 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.-Biography:Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the...

 and Rick Moranis

Rick Moranis

Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis is a Canadian comedian, actor, musician, and a magician. Moranis came to prominence in the late 1970s on the sketch comedy show Second City Television, and later appeared in several Hollywood films including Strange Brew; Ghostbusters; Spaceballs; Little Shop of...

. He starred in the Canadian television series Learning the Ropes from 1988 to 1989. In 1994, he gained national exposure in the syndicated action series, High Tide co-starring Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield

Rick Springfield is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. He was a member of pop rock group Zoot from 1969 to 1971 and then started his solo career with his début single "Speak to the Sky" reaching the top 10 in Australia. In mid-1972, he relocated to the United States...

. From 2000 to 2004, he had a recurring role as attorney Brian Tedrow on the Showtime drama Soul Food. He has also starred as the F.B.I agent Jack Hudson, in the PAX TV series Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is a Canadian-American television series that premiered in the United States in 2002 and Canada in 2003. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest rated shows on PAX. In September 2009, Gospel...

and in the short-lived CBC drama Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy was a CBC Television television show based upon the adventures of author and rancher Richmond P. Hobson, Jr. in Northern British Columbia. It is based upon the eponymous book and also The Rancher Takes a Wife....

with Sarah Chalke

Sarah Chalke

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. He appeared on Falcon Beach

Falcon Beach

Falcon Beach is a Canadian television show, filmed at Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba, Canada, and produced in Canada for the Canadian and American markets. It originally aired in 2005 as a movie on Global in Canada. It was produced as a TV series for Global and ABC Family in 2006...

in season two, as well as several Lifetime

Lifetime Television

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 cable movies, such as Crazy for Christmas, and I do (but I don't), as well as the Disney Channel

Disney Channel

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 movie Genius. Bisson was a guest star in the hit Canadian series Flashpoint

Flashpoint (TV series)

Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...

. He also has appeared in all of the Roxy Hunter

Roxy Hunter

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movies, to date, as Jon.

Bisson starred in the 2001 TV movie Loves Music, Loves to Dance

Loves Music, Loves to Dance

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, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark

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He provided the voice of Ferdie in the children's animated series Maxie's World

Maxie's World

Maxie's World is an animated cartoon series about a teenage girl named Maxie in Surfside High School in California. Maxie was a straight A student who produced and hosted her own TV show part time...

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Bisson plays the lead in the Citytv

Citytv

Citytv is a Canadian English language television system owned and operated by Rogers Communications under its Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. division...

 drama series Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian drama television series that airs on Citytv, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s. The television series is based on the Detective Murdoch series of novels by Maureen Jennings. The fifth season was...

, and made his directorial debut with the show's fourth season episode "Buffalo Shuffle".

Personal life

He is married to actress, Chantal Craig, and they have three daughters, Brianna, Dominique and Mikaela. Craig made an appearance on one of Bisson's television series, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is a Canadian-American television series that premiered in the United States in 2002 and Canada in 2003. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest rated shows on PAX. In September 2009, Gospel...

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