Douglas Kidd
- Actor
Actor Douglas Kidd was born in Vancouver, Canada. He has Slovakian ancestry on his father's side, and Irish, Finnish, French, Scottish, and Swedish ancestry on his mother's side, with Canadian roots that go back to 1658. He often plays characters who are devious.
An all-around athlete growing up, Douglas excelled at football, baseball, hockey, wrestling, track and field, and soccer, and was "Athlete of the Year" in his senior year of high school. He accepted a wrestling scholarship at Simon Fraser University and competed at tournaments in both Canada and the United States. While completing a bachelor's degree in English Literature, he went to audition for his university's Theatre Program and was accepted on the spot.
After graduating, he relocated to Toronto where he performed in dozens of plays, including an open-air production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" directed by Lewis Baumander (who also directed Keanu Reeves in "Hamlet" and "Romeo & Juliet") and over 400 performances of Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" (billed as "Canada's Longest Running Show") at the Toronto Truck Theatre. Douglas also enjoyed a stint as lead singer for The Fringe, a U2-inspired rock band he performed with at venues like the El Mocambo (where The Rolling Stones once recorded a live album).
His early film-acting experience includes playing the lead role in two separate feature-length films: Psycho Pike (1992) and Psycho Scarecrow (1996), the latter of which includes a scene where his character plays guitar and sings a song that Douglas actually wrote. His first roles in television include a New Orleans reserve officer in Top Cops (1992); a political handler in an episode of The Hidden Room (1993) with Daphne Zuniga; a socialite in the vampire television series Forever Knight (1995); and a TV reporter in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1995), which starred the legendary David Carradine.
More recently, Douglas has played an FBI agent in The Art of More (2015), starring Dennis Quaid and Carey Elwes; a police officer in Awakening the Zodiac (2017), starring Lesley Bibb; an engineer in Designing Christmas (2022) with Jessica Szohr; the husband in the dramatic opening scene of The Sacrifice Game (2023); the English headmaster of a Swiss boarding school in The Boarding School Murders (2024); and the iconic role of Dracula in the vampire series Rise of the Mixed-Blood Queen (2024).
An all-around athlete growing up, Douglas excelled at football, baseball, hockey, wrestling, track and field, and soccer, and was "Athlete of the Year" in his senior year of high school. He accepted a wrestling scholarship at Simon Fraser University and competed at tournaments in both Canada and the United States. While completing a bachelor's degree in English Literature, he went to audition for his university's Theatre Program and was accepted on the spot.
After graduating, he relocated to Toronto where he performed in dozens of plays, including an open-air production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" directed by Lewis Baumander (who also directed Keanu Reeves in "Hamlet" and "Romeo & Juliet") and over 400 performances of Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" (billed as "Canada's Longest Running Show") at the Toronto Truck Theatre. Douglas also enjoyed a stint as lead singer for The Fringe, a U2-inspired rock band he performed with at venues like the El Mocambo (where The Rolling Stones once recorded a live album).
His early film-acting experience includes playing the lead role in two separate feature-length films: Psycho Pike (1992) and Psycho Scarecrow (1996), the latter of which includes a scene where his character plays guitar and sings a song that Douglas actually wrote. His first roles in television include a New Orleans reserve officer in Top Cops (1992); a political handler in an episode of The Hidden Room (1993) with Daphne Zuniga; a socialite in the vampire television series Forever Knight (1995); and a TV reporter in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1995), which starred the legendary David Carradine.
More recently, Douglas has played an FBI agent in The Art of More (2015), starring Dennis Quaid and Carey Elwes; a police officer in Awakening the Zodiac (2017), starring Lesley Bibb; an engineer in Designing Christmas (2022) with Jessica Szohr; the husband in the dramatic opening scene of The Sacrifice Game (2023); the English headmaster of a Swiss boarding school in The Boarding School Murders (2024); and the iconic role of Dracula in the vampire series Rise of the Mixed-Blood Queen (2024).
