Andrew Moodie (born November 30, 1967) is a Canadian actor and playwright.[1] He is most noted for his plays Riot, which was a winner of the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1996,[2] and Toronto the Good, which was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Original Play (General Theatre) in 2009.[3]
Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario,[4] he is the brother of actress Tanya Moodie.[5]
Moodie began his career as an actor with Ottawa's Great Canadian Theatre Company in the 1980s.[1]
His other plays have included Oui (1998),[6] Wilbur County Blues (1998),[7] A Common Man's Guide to Loving Women (1999),[8] The Lady Smith (2000)[9] and The Real McCoy (2006).[10] He was also a writer of the CBC Radio drama series Afghanada.[11]
As an actor, Moodie is best known for his recurring supporting roles as Simon Frontenac in Orphan Black and Teku Fonsei in Dark Matter. He won a Dora Award in the Youth Theatre division for his performance in David S. Craig and Robert Morgan's Health Class,[12] and was nominated in the Independent division in 2003 for his performance in Othello.[13]
From 2006 to 2011 Moodie was the host of TVOntario's documentary series Big Ideas.[1]