Greg Kean

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Greg Kean
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Gregory Kean Williams

(1962-09-27) September 27, 1962 (age 61)
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian

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]

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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

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