Anthony Shim | |
|---|---|
심명보 | |
| Born | |
| Other names | Shim Myeong-bo |
| Occupation(s) | Actor Film Director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 심명보[1] |
| Revised Romanization | Sim Myeong-bo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Shim Myŏngbo |
Anthony Shim is a Canadian actor and filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2]
Born in Seoul, South Korea, he moved with his family to the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam in childhood.[3] He has had acting roles in both film and television, including in the 2013 film Evangeline and recurring supporting roles in the television series The Guard and 21 Thunder.
His full-length feature debut as a director, Daughter, premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival.[4] His second feature film, Riceboy Sleeps, premiered in the Platform Prize competition at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival,[5] and was named the winner of the Platform Prize.[6] It was included in TIFF’s 2022 Canada’s Top Ten,[7] and won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, considered the richest annual film prize in Canada.[8]
He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 for Riceboy Sleeps.[9]