Damir Andrei
Actor
Biography
Damir Andrei is a Director/actor born in Zagreb, Croatia. He came to Montreal with his parents in 1963 at the age of 8, speaking neither English nor French. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada in acting, inspired by the work of Douglas Rain.
Damir Andrei worked often at the now defunct Phoenix Theatre of Montreal directing Sexual Perversity in Chicago among other plays there. He has done much of his directing work at Montreal's Centaur Theatre, including Bordertown Café, The Main, Playboy of the West Indies and The Freidman Family Fortune. He has also worked at the Blyth Festival, Canadian Stage and the National Arts Centre. Andrei's style is unobtrusive and text-driven.
He now lives in Toronto, where he has acted extensively in film and television, including Dead Ringers (1988), and Slings and Arrows (2003), among many others.
Filmography
Jumper
as Psychologist 2008
Dead Ringers
as Birchall 1988
Rollerball
as Serbo-Croatian Sports Announcer 2002
A Christmas Horror Story
as Principal Herod 2015
F/X2
as Defense Attorney 1991
M. Butterfly
as Intelligence Officer #2 1993
Happy Birthday to Me
as Junior Surgeon 1981
Switching Goals
as Arden 1999
Talk to Me
as Fred De Cordova 2007
One Magic Christmas
as Bank Manager 1985
Visiting Hours
as Paramedic 1982
Solar Attack
as Russian President Yuri Ilyushin 2006
...First Do No Harm
1997
The Pentagon Papers
as Leonard Boudin 2003
A Different Loyalty
as Aleksi 2004
Visitors of the Night
as Stranger 1 1995