Darryl Flatman - Bio

Darryl Flatman - Media Release October 23, 2006

Above And Beyond - Trailer link (CBC)

By his late teens Darryl Flatman figured he was done with acting - for good! With both parents working in the Entertainment Industry, and considerable natural aptitude, Flatman had not only performed extensively in his Toronto hometown, he had also toured with the Canadian Stage Company and strode the stage at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg.

It was a crazy existence as Flatman tackled huge professional and personal challenges at a young age. By 18, he decided to try on a normal life: a job outside his regular sphere, his own apartment, and a circle of friends who shared his passion for sports. It worked - for a while. After a few years, however, Flatman found he spent an increasing amount of time trying to resist the pull of his earlier pursuits - writing, developing story ideas, and acting.

He gave up the struggle, sought a meeting with a casting director, who immediately hooked him up with a top-tier agent, and now, fully immersed back into the film, television and entertainment milieu, Darryl Flatman is racking up wide-ranging credits for his resume, while also actively driving his own development projects.

An actor who relishes complicated, emotional roles, likes to take chances, and tackle physical, as well as dramatic challenges, he recently wrapped production on a World War 11 mini-series for CBC by award-winning director Sturla Gunnarsson. Based on a true story, ABOVE AND BEYOND was filmed on location in Newfoundland, and stars Richard E. Grant. Flatman plays the dramatic role of Dan Jeffers, one of a small group of Canadian pilots who volunteered for an extremely dangerous mission that helped turn the tide of the War.

Other recent credits for Flatman include the role of Terry Fox's brother in director Don McBrearty's acclaimed Mow TERRY on CTV, a role in the blockbuster comedy THE RETURN OF ZOOM, starring Tim Allen, Chevy Chase and Courtney Cox, WIDOW ON THE HILL for Lifetime, and G-SPOT for TMN, directed by David Woo.

Flatman is also a dynamic player in the Canadian Indie film scene. He recently took on the chilling role of a child predator that successfully masks his malevolence behind a "nice guy" exterior in the short film LOSING KERRI, by George Giannopoulos, which is slated to premiere in the 2006 film festival season. He is also writing a screenplay for a full length Indie feature centred on the Toronto bar scene. It's a world he knows intimately; in common with most young artists, Flatman helped support his early years by bartending. He is also turning his writing talent, and his ever-present sense of humour, to another arena he knows intimately, cooking. A self-taught chef, Flatman is producing a cookbook aimed at guys who want to explore a culinary world beyond Kraft Dinner and Take-Out Pizza, with easy to prepare, good food.

Blessed with boundless energy and drive, Flatman spends any spare moment studying writing, acting and directing with a focus on film and television, and he was been working with Canadian acting icon David Rotenberg for the past four years. Flatman remains an avid theatergoer, is an all-round athlete who manages and plays on a softball beach-league team, has a cat named "Hollywood" and endlessly perfects his cooking recipes by, amongst other means, creating large Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts for family and friends each year for the last five years.