Biography
Karl has been working in the industry since 2002, the year he graduated from the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada. As a fluently bilingual actor in both english and french, Karl recently completed seven successful seasons on Radio Canada's hit sitcom Discussions avec mes parents. Other recent film and television work include principal roles on the film Pet Sematary 1969, and series such as CTV's Transplant, and CBC's Murdoch Mysteries. Karl has also had recurring roles on CBS' Blood & Treasure, as well as TVA's Indéfendable, and Radio Canada's Faits Divers 2.
Over the years, Karl has had the opportunity to share the screen with Ben Stiller in Brad's Status, with Felicity Jones in On The Basis of Sex and with Colm Feore in Bon Cop Bad Cop 2.
His favorite film experience to date was working with Jay Baruchel, Seann William Scott, Liev Shreiber, Marc-André Grondin, and George Tchortov (to name a few) on the canadian-made hockey films Goon, and Goon The Last of The Enforcers.
Karl has worked with many of Montreal's major theatre companies including the Centaur Theatre, the Segal Center, Black Theatre Workshop, Infinitheatre, Repercussion Theatre, Geordie Theatre, and Theatre Lac Brome. Karl has also toured to Ottawa's National Arts Center and Toronto's Factory Theatre with Black Theatre Workshop's production of Angélique, and has performed onstage in Los Angeles, Washington, and Chicago while touring with Starvox's production of Sherlock Holmes.
When not performing, Karl shares his passion running his own selftaping and coaching studio, and has become one of Montreal's most sought after acting and audition coaches. Karl is currently mentoring a handful of this city's most talented up and coming young actors.
Karl lives in Montréal with his wife, his son. As well as living in Montreal, he also once spent three years calling Toronto home. Karl is a huge sports fan, as well as an avid reader of fiction, fantasy, science fiction, comic books and graphic novels.
