Eugene Lipinski
English-Canadian actor and screenwriter
Eugene Lipinski (born 5 November 1956) is a British-Canadian character actor and screenwriter. He was born in Wansford Camp, Soke of Peterborough, England, and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He began acting at the age of twelve in amateur theatre. After graduating from the University of Regina, he returned to the UK and attended the Royal Academy of Arts as well as the Drama Studio London.
He is well known for his appearances in TV series such as Animorphs as Visser Three, Fringe as December, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (″The Dancing Men″) as Abe Slaney, and Da Vinci's City Hall and Da Vinci's Inquest as Lloyd Manning.
As a screenwriter, in 1991, he won the Genie Award for Best Screenplay for the film Perfectly Normal.
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