John Emmet Tracy
Born: 1969-07-02 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
In over thirty years as an actor, John has worked extensively in theatre, film, television and voiceovers. He has performed on stages throughout the world, including Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, where he was selected as a company member of the Globe's International Actors' Fellowship, and in Japan, where he toured as the title role in Hamlet. He has appeared in over one hundred productions and is the recipient of the 2013 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role for his work in Pi Theatre's production of Mark O'Rowe's Terminus. John is also the creator of The 24 Hour Shakespeare Project, for which he performed continuously for twenty-four straight hours in all thirty-eight of Shakespeare's plays to raise money for British Columbia Children's Hospital. His film work includes appearances in Fifty Shades Freed, If I Stay, American Mary, Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story and Steven Spielberg's The BFG. He has performed lead, recurring and supporting roles in many television shows, including Altered Carbon, iZombie, The Man in the High Castle, Supernatural, Smallville, When Calls the Heart, The Killing, Continuum, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and Sanctuary. John received his education and training at Rose Bruford College, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre, as well as at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London and the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York. He has directed over thirty theatre productions and has been teaching for twenty years in colleges, conservatories and studios in Canada and the United States.
Filmography
2025
- Windows to the Soul as Father Martin
2022
- Fire Country as Glenn
2021
- FBI: International as Dave Zaleski
- MatchMaker Mysteries: The Art of the Kill as Simon Beaucamp
2019
- Batwoman as August Cartwright
- Ada as Woronzow Greig
- MatchMaker Mysteries: A Killer Engagement as Simon Beaucamp
- Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play as Andrew Wakefield
- Open For Submissions as Desmond Baggs
2018
- Yellowstone as Ellis Steele
- Fifty Shades Freed as Troy Whelan (Bank Manager)
- Altered Carbon as Warden Sullivan
- The Bad Seed as Mark Wiggins
- Garage Sale Mysteries: Picture a Murder as Ian Hathaway
- The Hollow Child as Garrett
- Bella Ciao! as Can Man
- Good Girls Don't as Chuck
- The Whistler as Mr. Weaver
2017
- Drone as Daniel Winters
- Moonlight in Vermont as Shark Realtor Tony
2016
- The BFG as Palace Staff #1 (aka Footman)
- Autumn in the Vineyard as Tony Commisso
2015
- iZombie as Enzo Lambert
- Sugarbabies as Peter
- The Devout as Edward R. Jones
- Twilight Storytellers: The Mary Alice Brandon File as Edgar John Brandon
- Olympus as Pallas
- I Wanna Date U as Lawrence
2014
- If I Stay as Surgeon
- Grace as Doctor
- The Surface as Bank Manager
- Flowers in the Attic as Male Guest
2013
- Motive as Tom's Dad
- American Mary as Detective Dolor
2012
- Continuum as Leon Rutledge
2010
- R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour as Daniel Quinn
2007
- Beneath as Funeral Home Employee
2006
- Psych as Charles Wignall
- Safe Harbor as Carly's Father
2005
- Supernatural as Mercury
2002
- The Dead Zone as Reporter #3
2001
- Smallville as Dr. Alfonso