John Tench

• Date of Birth:

  Madison, Wisconsin, USA

John Tench was born in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up in Canada, where he began working in theater and film in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. John has been acting in Stage, Television and Film since the late seventies. He began his training in Toronto and quickly moved on to study and work in New York City, London, England, Los Angeles and throughout Europe and Canada. He founded the influential theatre company Theatre Kathartic in 1980, performing and touring shows internationally. He moved out to Vancou... more

John Tench was born in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up in Canada, where he began working in theater and film in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. John has been acting in Stage, Television and Film since the late seventies. He began his training in Toronto and quickly moved on to study and work in New York City, London, England, Los Angeles and throughout Europe and Canada. He founded the influential theatre company Theatre Kathartic in 1980, performing and touring shows internationally. He moved out to Vancouver, B.C. and from there down to Los Angeles in the early nineties. Along with his many film and television appearances working with such great directors as Ang Lee, Antoine Fuqua, Arthur Hiller and many others, he has also worked with numerous theater companies in North America and Europe as an Actor, Director, Writer and Producer. He has produced, written and directed several short films. He is a master of accents and dialects and has voiced a great many cartoons and foreign language films. He has been nominated a number of times in the Best Actor Category. He has written a number of screenplays and is a published poet. Among his other many interests are painting and playing guitar, banjo and harmonica. He is an avid outdoors-man, fisherman and canoeist. He divides his time between Vancouver, Canada and Los Angeles.