Mark Forward

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Mark Forward
Born (1974-06-17) June 17, 1974 (age 50)
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Mark Forward (born June 17, 1974) [1] is a Canadian comedian and actor from Oakville, Ontario. [2]

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He is the winner of the 2005 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Newcomer. He also won the Homegrown Competition at the 2006 Just for Laughs festival. He has performed at the Halifax Comedy Festival, Hub Cap Comedy Festival and Just for Laughs, [3] opening for Craig Ferguson during his Hobo Fabulous tour. [4]

He has appeared in Letterkenny , Fargo , Mr. D , The Rocker , Breakfast with Scot , The Sean Cullen Show , The Newsroom and Degrassi . [3] [5] Forward is also a writer and performer on The Jon Dore Television Show . [6]

Filmography

Standup Specials

YearTitleNotes
2018Mark Forward Presents: Mark Forward
2019Mark Forward Wins All the Awards

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 Escape from the Newsroom The Cannibal
2006Night of TerrorNewlywed Man
2007 I Me Wed Jim
2007 Breakfast with Scot Snickering Businessman
2008 The Rocker Leon
2008 True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet Ice Cream Vendor
2009Puck HogsJake Goldstein
2010 Double Wedding Mitch
2015 No Stranger Than Love Vernon Paulson
2016The Death (and Life) of Carl NaardlingerDon Beamershmiddle; Carl Naardlinger
2020Getting to Know YouKenny

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002 Doc Jake1 episode
2003 The Seán Cullen Show Seán's stand-in
2007 Degrassi: The Next Generation Judge #11 episode
2007-09 The Jon Dore Television Show Various8 episodes
2010 Living in Your Car 1 episode
2012-14 Mr. D Wayne Leung24 episodes; 1 episode in 2014 in the "webisodes" spinoff
2015 Spun Out Ian Hayes1 episode
2016-2023 Letterkenny Coach32 episodes
2017 Fargo Donny Mashman6 episodes
2018-2019Cupcake & Dino: General ServicesHugo (voice)13 episodes

Personal life

Forward lives in Toronto. He is married and has a son. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "Mark Forward". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  2. 1 2 Grignon, Denis (January 3, 2017). "Mark Forward is a nationalist of laughs". Toronto Star . Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Why Mark Forward believes Canadian comics should not move to the U.S." Q. July 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Craig Ferguson Sony Centre, Toronto ON, October 2". exclaim.ca. October 3, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Wheeler, Brad (December 8, 2016). "Comedian Mark Forward on making a career in stand-up". The Globe and Mail .
  6. ↑ Banner, Victoria (May 4, 2016). "Toronto comedian Mark Forward keeps things authentic". beatroute.ca.
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