Mark Forward

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Mark Forward
Born (1974-06-17) June 17, 1974 (age 50)
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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.