Biography
Daniel Beirne is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance as Mackenzie King in the 2019 film The Twentieth Century, for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019 and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Paying for It
2025
as Chester Brown
In the late '90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their relationship, Chester, a painfully...
Drive Back Home
2024
as Father Carr
A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having ...
I Used to Be Funny
2024
as Tim
Sam is a young stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, who is weighing whether or not to join the search for Brooke, a missing girl she us...
Priscilla
2023
as Joe
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely une...
I Like Movies
2023
as Owen
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manag...
Maybe You Should Be Careful
2021
as Alistair
Meet June and Alistair, a long-term couple whose spark is starting to dim. Determined to heat things up, June has planned the perfect at-home date nig...
Awake
2021
as Gregg
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jil...
The Women's Hour
2020
as Peter
Rival film actresses Ruth Wescott and Norma Eastbrook are cast opposite each other in a campy, dramatic thriller. But, as competition and jealousy bre...
Loose Ends
2020
as Peter
A woman in the midst of a devastating breakup is invited to her ex-boyfriend's apartment to return his keys. However upon arriving, she discovers she ...
The Twentieth Century
2019
as Mackenzie King
Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will f...
White Lie
2019
as Sam Blumenthal
Katie Arneson is faking cancer. A university dance major, Katie's falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus c...
Romance Language
2019
as Ryan
Two strangers engaging in a tryst speak their inner monologues aloud revealing the selfish, terrible thoughts their anxiety about the situation provok...
American Hangman
2019
as Tom
An unidentified man posts a live feed on social media showing that he has kidnapped two strangers and intends to kill one before the day is out. His i...
The Dark
2018
as Officer Stevens
A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abu...
Keep Coming Back!
2018
as Dale
An alcoholic shows up at her local AA meeting ready to share her latest relapse story. As the story progresses we find out that her actions had seriou...
Great Great Great
2017
as Tom
Lauren simultaneously starts an affair with her boss, rents a bachelor apartment, and asks her boyfriend Tom to marry her.
Suck It Up
2017
as Granville
Ronnie lost her brother. Faye lost her first love. These two best friends set off on a debaucherous road trip to the mountains to get over the death o...
Jeremy and Margot Make a Baby
2016
Director
Jeremy and his boyfriend Cruz want to have a baby. Their friend Margot, who may or may not be in love with Jeremy, is going to be their surrogate. Wha...
We Were Wolves
2014
as Paul
Two estranged brothers return to the family cottage after the death of their father. Over the course of three days they must learn to let go of the ma...
Three Night Stand
2014
as Aaron Berg
A man's plans for a romantic weekend go awry when he learns that his ex-girlfriend, whom he still secretly loves, manages the ski lodge where he and h...
Roland
2013
as Roland
Roland, an art store employees, day is interrupted by a man needing to use the store's washroom. This simple request is complicated by the store's str...
The Good Escape
2013
as Lunky Man
Famous 30s gangster John Dillinger will be dead in 5 minutes. Where does America's Most Wanted decide to go the night he dies? To see Clark Gable in M...
Willed to Kill
2013
as Detective Mason
A homicide detective is forced to work alongside her ex-fiancé to investigate a murder that bears all the hallmarks of an infamous serial killer.
Sorry, Rabbi
2012
as Yossul
Josh is a young secular jewish professional living in Montreal's Mile End Neighborhood. One night he's confronted by a group of Hasidic men who accuse...
Beat Down
2012
as Henry
Beat Down is an irreverent comedy about wrestling, family and following your dreams no matter how painful that can sometimes be. Fran Whiteway (Marth...
I Heart Doomsday
2011
as Dr. Maximillian Von Max
A scientist builds an android to reconnect with his amnesiac lover.
The Future Is Now!
2011
as Young Man
A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matter...
Catfish
2010
Thanks
Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, has no idea what he's in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on Fa...
The Trotsky
2010
as Dan
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th...
Peepers
2010
as Stu
A rag-tag group, led by the eagle-eyed Steve, take to Montreal's chilly rooftops under cover of night. They're on the prowl for the perfect peep despe...
Colourbars
2006
as Green Colourbar
Combining live action and traditional cell animation, this short film depicts a typical day near the end of the Colourbars' career.
Summer War
N/A
The peaceful summer holiday of a US champion of the board game Third Reich is shattered when a tourist mysteriously disappears at sea.