Jean-Michel Le Gal

Jean-Michel Le Gal is a Toronto-based actor. He grew up in a perfectly bilingual family of theatre artists, which inspired him to start acting at a young age in both English and French. Now, after extensive training in classical theatre and film, Jean-Michel has distinguished himself on stage across Canada and on screens around the world.Favorite stage roles include: Ferdinand in The Tempest, Silvius in As You Like It, Lorenzo in Merchant of Venice and Garry in Noises Off, at the Stratford Festival in Canada ,for which he received the John Hirsch Award for most promising actor and a Globe and Mail review exclaiming, 'A star is born'. As a classical french actor, he has played Horace in Molière's L'école des femmes at Théâtre français de Toronto and Pierrot in Dom Juan at Montreal's renown Théâtre du Nouveau Monde.Favorite television roles include: Lloyd Ackerman on the hit sit-com Max & Shred, airing on Nickelodeon and YTV. Weston on Rookie Blue (ABC) and Stephen Riggs on Orphan Black (Space).Favorite film roles include: Film credits include: Dorion in John A: Birth of a Nation, Jacob in She Sings For Me (Cannes, 2015) and Teddy in Benjamin, (TIFF 2015).Jean-Michel believes in the transformative power of the arts and helps inner-city kids write and act in their own plays. Show less «