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Daniel Arnold
Height: 5’ 11’’
Weight: 145 lbs
Hair: Light Brown
Eyes: Hazel
Daniel is a multi-award winning actor and writer for the stage and screen. Most notably, he stars as Holloman in Lawrence & Holloman which he co-wrote with director Matthew Kowalchuk, based on the play by Morris Panych. For this role he won Best Actor in a Comedy at the Victoria TX IFF and was nominated for a Leo Award for Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film. Lawrence & Holloman has won an impressive 13 jury awards, including the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Feature Film, and was released theatrically in Canada and the USA.
Daniel has enjoyed numerous roles in film, television, and theatre, and so far in his career has been nominated for two Leo Awards for Best Performance, a Leo Award for Best Screenplay, a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Screenplay, four Jessie Theatre Awards and two Sterling Theatre Awards for Outstanding Actor, three Mayor's Awards for Emerging Artist of the Year, garnered a VTXIFF Jury Award for Best Actor, two Sterling Awards for Outstanding Actor and Outstanding Writing, and one of his mentors Daniel MacIvor bestowed upon him and his colleague Medina Hahn the protégé portion of the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize, Canada's most prestigious theatre award.
Daniel also starred Off-Broadway in the critically acclaimed Any Night, which he co-wrote/performed with Medina Hahn. Prior to its month-long Off-Broadway debut, Any Night had been published by Playwrights Canada Press, won Outstanding New Play at Toronto's Summerworks, five awards in Toronto Now including Outstanding Performances, and was hailed by critics among the Best Productions of the Year in Toronto and Vancouver. Daniel is currently packaging the feature film version of Any Night, which won the nation-wide $50k CFF Super Channel Screenplay Award.
Also of note, Daniel co-wrote/performed the stage play Tuesdays & Sundays, which toured across Canada and internationally for over 7 years, where it was listed as one of the Best Shows of the Year in New York, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto; was published twice; broadcast as a radio play on CBC and BBC (starring David Tennant); and was optioned as a feature film by Slate Films of London UK and Clarity Films in Canada.
Daniel also won the National Screen Institute Drama Prize to make the 35mm short film The Janitors, which he co-wrote/directed with Matthew Kowalchuk, starring William B. Davis and Medina Hahn. The Janitors screened at numerous Canadian and international festivals including Vancouver International Film Festival and the Hollywood Film Festival, was broadcast on CBC's Canadian Reflections, and attained world wide distribution from interfilm Berlin.
Daniel was born in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, and moved to Edmonton, Alberta when he was 5. He starred in his first professional theatre production at the age of 12, and continued to act and write through his teenage years, graduating with Honors & the Golden Key from the University of Alberta's BFA Conservatory Acting Program. He now lives in Vancouver.
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