Daniel Arnold
Daniel is a multi-award winning actor and writer for the stage and screen. He starred as Holloman in Lawrence & Holloman (2013) which he co-wrote with director Matthew Kowalchuk, based on the play by Morris Panych. For this role he won "Best Actor in a Comedy" at the Victoria TX IFF and was nominated for a Leo Award for "Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film". Lawrence & Holloman (2013) has won an impressive 13 jury awards, including the Canadian Comedy Award for "Best Feature Film", and was released theatrically in Canada and the USA.
Daniel also recurs as Jed Campbell on When Calls The Heart and has enjoyed numerous other roles in film, television, and theatre. He has been nominated for two Leo Awards for "Best Performance", a Leo Award for "Best Screenplay", a Canadian Comedy Award for "Best Screenplay", four Jessie Theatre Awards and two Sterling Theatre Awards for "Outstanding Actor", three Mayor's Awards for "Emerging Artist of the Year", garnered a VTXIFF Jury Award for "Best Actor", two Sterling Awards for "Outstanding Actor" and "Outstanding Writing", and one of his mentors Daniel MacIvor bestowed upon him and his collaborator Medina Hahn the protégé portion of the $100,000 "Siminovitch Prize", Canada's most prestigious theatre award.
Daniel also starred Off-Broadway in the critically acclaimed stage production of Any Night, which he co-wrote/performed with Medina Hahn. Prior to its month-long Off-Broadway debut, Any Night had been published by Playwrights Canada Press, won "Outstanding New Play" at Toronto's Summerworks, five awards in Toronto Now including "Outstanding Performances", and was hailed by critics among the "Best Productions of the Year" in Toronto and Vancouver. The feature screenplay version of Any Night won the Canada-wide $50k "CFF Super Channel Screenplay Award" and is optioned by Ed Gass-Donnelly of 3 Legged Dog Films.
Also of note, Daniel co-wrote/performed the stage play "Tuesdays & Sundays", which toured across Canada and internationally for over 7 years, where it was listed as one of the "Best Shows of the Year" in New York, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Toronto; was published twice; broadcast as a radio play on CBC (in which Daniel performed) and BBC (starring David Tennant); and was optioned as a feature film by Slate Films of London UK and Clarity Films in Canada.
Daniel also won the National Screen Institute's "Drama Prize" to make the 35mm short film The Janitors (2006), which he co-wrote/directed with Matthew Kowalchuk, starring William B. Davis and Medina Hahn. The Janitors (2006) screened at numerous Canadian and international festivals including the Hollywood Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival, was broadcast on CBC's Canadian Reflections, and attained world-wide distribution from 'interfilm Berlin - Short Film Distribution'.
Daniel was born in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, and moved to Edmonton, Alberta when he was 5. He starred in his first professional theatre production at the age of 12, and continued to act and write through his teenage years, graduating with Honors & the Golden Key from the University of Alberta's BFA Conservatory Acting Program. He currently lives in Vancouver.
