
Philip Akin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip Akin (born April 18, 1950) is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force. Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived there ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1983 Akin began studying Yoshinkan Aikido and is presently a 5th degree black belt in that art. He has also trained in Jing Mo Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan. Akin first came to prominence in the early 1980s when he performed on the zany comedy series Bizarre. Other recognizable roles include computer expert Norton Drake from War of the Worlds, a Canadian television series that went off the air in 1990. His recurring role as Charlie DeSalvo in Highlander: The Series has also brought him much recognition. In Shake Hands with the Devil he portrays Kofi Annan, then United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. In 2007, Akin will be performing at the Stratford Festival of Canada, a prestigious summer-long celebration of theatre held each year in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. He is cast in the title role of William Shakespeare’s Othello, and also in the role of Crooks in the Festival’s rendition of John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men. Phil Akin can also be seen in a long list of guest appearances on television series filmed in Canada, for example: F/X: The Series, Mutant X, and most recently, Flashpoint (2008). Akin is a founding member and currently the Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre Company, a Canadian theatre company comprising seasoned actors of African descent, devoted to the work of blacks. Akin is divorced, with one child. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Akin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
103 acting credits
Acting · 103

The Expanse
2015

Highlander: The Series
1992

Warehouse 13
2009

X-Men
1992

Relic Hunter
1999

Lost Girl
2010

Goosebumps
1995

Mutant X
2001

War of the Worlds
1988

Friday the 13th: The Series
1987

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
1996

Flashpoint
2008

This Is Wonderland
2004

ReGenesis
2004

Doc
2001

Twice in a Lifetime
1999

FX: The Series
1996

Kevin Hill
2004

RoboCop
2014

The Sum of All Fears
2002

Highlander: The Raven
1998

Puppets Who Kill
2002

Caitlin's Way
2000

Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005

Pushing Tin
1999

Cube 2: Hypercube
2002

Platinum
2003

H2O
2004

The Man
2005

Fly Away Home
1996

Iceman
1984

Millennium
1989

P2
2007

Monster Force
1994

The Perfect Man
2005

F/X2
1991

The Stupids
1996

The Ref
1994

Mistrial
1996

Stella
1990

Blue Monkey
1987

Swamp Thing
1990

Left Behind
2000

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1998

How to Deal
2003

Knights of the South Bronx
2005

Shake Hands with the Devil
2007

The Judge
2001

Love, of Course
2018

Nowhere to Hide
1987

Married to It
1991

Talk to Me
1996

...First Do No Harm
1997

Christmas Eve
1986

Switching Channels
1988

The Skulls III
2004

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?
2010

Ms. Scrooge
1997

Covergirl
1984

Color of Justice
1997

Custody of the Heart
2000

Who Killed Atlanta's Children?
2000

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice
1996
Hitched
2001

Burnt Toast
2005

Deadline
1980

Blackout
2001

The Conspiracy of Fear
1996

To Love, Honor, & Betray
1999

Absolution
2006

P.T. Barnum
1999

Nightstick
1987

Running
1979

Liar, Liar
1993

Giving Up the Ghost
1998

Down in the Delta
1998

One Tough Cop
1998

Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
1999

Airborne
1998

Pretend You Don't See Her
2002

The Don's Analyst
1997

Deep in My Heart
1999

One Kill
2000

The Red Sneakers
2002

The Note II: Taking a Chance on Love
2009

Bottom Feeder
2007

Terror on Track 9
1992

Pretty Kill
1987

Range of Motion
2000

Improper Channels
1981

Easy Prey
1986

Search and Destroy
1979

Highlander: Unholy Alliance
1994

Mafia Doctor
2003

Elvis Meets Nixon
1997

The Haunting of Lisa
1996

Love Rules!
2004

The High Price of Passion
1986

A Dad for Christmas
2006

The Wrong Girl
1999

Shock-Trauma
1982

Everybody's Doing It
2002
A Far Cry From Home
1981