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O'Toole, Christopher

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Actor Christopher O'Toole was raised in Ottawa, Ontario and began acting professionally in 1983 on stage and screen. He also has been a radio announcer, a theatre reviewer, and has worked behind the camera in film and video productions.

During his teen years, he was active in local amateur theatre companies in Ottawa including Kanata Theatre and the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society, Canada's oldest amateur theatre group. He has acted in a wide variety of roles, particularly in musicals; and has performed in many regional theatres including the Leah Posluns Theatre (Toronto), the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts (Toronto), the Alumnae Theatre (Toronto), the Collingwood Summer Theatre, the Gryphon Theatre (Barrie), the Sudbury Theatre Centre, and Centrepointe Theatre (Ottawa).

Acting highlights include Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's The Music Man, Alfred P. Doolittle in Lerner and Lowe's My Fair Lady, Jake in Sam Shepherd's A Lie of the Mind, and Alistair in George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess. He also portrayed the Canadian inventor of basketball James Naismith, in the movie The Father of Basketball for CTV (1996).

In January 2000, O'Toole founded The Kingsville Repertory Players in Kingsville, Ontario. This theatre group combined local amateur actors with a professional production team, producing two plays annually. It performed in Migration Hall, a community-use facility founded in the late 1980s by a dedicated group of teachers from Kingsville District High School and community leaders from Kingsville and Gosfield South.

O'Toole is currently living in London, Ontario with his wife and two children, where he is active in the local theatre scene, and writing his first musical.

Last updated 2021-07-15