On Acting

Patrick Sabongui was born in Montreal and grew up in a trilingual household speaking French, English and Arabic. On television, you’ve seen him regularly as Captain David Singh on CW’s The Flash (2014), in film you’d recognize him as Master Sargeant Marcus Waltz in Godzilla (2014) and The Persian General from 300 (2006). In the theatre, on regional stages he is known for the Canadian premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Disgraced (2015) and [...]

Kyra Zagorsky was born in New York and raised in Colorado. She grew up an outdoors enthusiast, an athlete and a dancer. She received a BFA in theatre from Southern Oregon University in Ashland and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of California. Kyra played leading roles in regional theatre across the U.S. until she made the transition to TV and Film in 2007. Her breakout role was Dr. Julia [...]

Nicholas Lea is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Alex Krycek on The X-Files and of Tom Foss on Kyle XY. Lea’s first major role was on the television series The Commish where he played Officer Enrico Caruso from 1991 to 1994. It was during this time that he had a minor guest role in a first-season episode of The X-Files called “Gender Bender.” The producers were impressed by his performance and [...]

David James Lewis was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. As a child his parents took him to the drive-in to watch Jaws. Not only was he scarred mentally from entering the water for the next decade, he was also bitten by the movie bug. Upon leaving high school he was lucky enough to step into the film and television world that was exploding in Vancouver. Starting out in commercials, he worked his way [...]

Actor Matty Finochio was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on December 24th. He is one of five boys and the only one insane enough to enter this business we call show. Matty loves acting and will continue to do so until he retires or dies from natural causes in his late 90s on a warm sunny day sitting in his vegetable garden. You can catch Matty this spring on two new series. In Loudermilk (Audience [...]

This is the second episode in January Magazine‘s On Acting Podcast, an interview where actors discuss what they’ve worked on and, more importantly, how they work and what it’s like to be an actor. Today we welcome Chris William Martin. From IMDB: Chris became an actor after answering a cattle call for a series which was to film in Vancouver. Chris, who had barely passed high school drama, walked off the street with 4000 other [...]

With this first episode, January Magazine offers our readers something new and different. We bring you the “On Acting Podcast,” an interview where actors discuss what they’ve worked on and, more importantly, how they work and what it’s like to be an actor. Today we welcome Matthew Harrison. From IMDB: Actor, audition coach, on-set acting coach, and teacher, as well as a guest teacher and lecturer around the world, Matthew has a wide roster of [...]