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Andrew Walker Profile |
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Birth Date: June 9, 1982
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Birth Place: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Birth Name: Andrew Walker
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Biography |
If you'd asked Andrew Walker 10 years ago, he would have
told you he expected to be playing professional football by
this point. Instead, the handsome Beaconsfield native is
smooching in front of the cameras with sexy
model-turned-actress Angie Everhart.
Walker is getting up close and personal with Everhart in
Wicked Minds, a made-for-TV thriller that started shooting
in Canada. It is the second high-profile gig for the busy
young actor in 12 months. He spent the last year in Los
Angeles starring in the WB Network sitcom Maybe It's Me,
opposite Julia Sweeney and Fred Willard. He had only been
back in his home town for a couple of days when he nabbed
the co-starring role in Wicked Minds.
Andrew Walker was born on June 9, 1982 in Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
The switch from football to acting came suddenly for Walker.
He had been on West Island football teams throughout his
high-school years, made the club at Vanier College and had
been invited to go to Boston College and join its team. Back
at Vanier playing out his last season, he tore his ACL, the
anterior cruciate ligament. He said it ended his
pro-football aspirations on the spot.
"They have a huge pool of athletes in the U.S.," Walker
said. "Once you're damaged goods, you're finished."
But Walker didn't spent too much time moping around
lamenting his missed opportunity. Instead, he decided to be
pro-active. He had already been doing some acting, and
things picked up on the TV front shortly after the football
accident. He landed a leading role in the Montreal-shot
series Back to Sherwood and he hasn't stopped working in the
biz since.
"I did five hard months of physio and the first weeks after
surgery were devastating," Walker said. "But I tried to
channel my energy into different avenues after the accident.
I tried to turn something bad into something good."
After Back to Sherwood, he nabbed a regular role in the
sitcom Radio Active, which was produced here and ran for a
couple of seasons on YTV. When Radio Active bit the dust,
Walker figured the time was ripe to take his shot at
small-screen glory in Hollywood.
In January of last year, he and his pal and fellow Radio
Active star Ryan Wilner drove across the U.S. in a run-down
1988 Volkswagen Fox to compete with hundreds of other actors
during pilot season, the annual rite of winter in Los
Angeles when the networks shoot a bunch of pilot episodes
for several possible future series.
Soon enough, Walker landed a part in Maybe It's Me, a sitcom
about an offbeat family that was created by two-time Emmy
Award winner Suzanne Martin (Frasier). It airs locally
Mondays at 5:30 p.m. on Fox (WFFF-44) and will begin airing
on CTV on Friday nights at the end of May.
Walker calls the time in L.A. "the best year of my life. It
was a great learning experience. It was like the best acting
class I could ever have."
Now he's pleased to making the move from comedy to an edgy
thriller.
In Wicked Minds, he portrays a young man who's returning
home from Harvard and is having a hard time coming to grips
with the fact that his father has married a much younger
woman, played by Everhart (Bandido).
Soon, he and his hot young stepmother are in the midst of a
passionate affair in this film, produced by Montreal-based
JB Media.
"It's great that I have this opportunity to switch to a
completely different character," Walker said.
As for the chance to do a few steamy loves scenes with
Everhart, Walker figures that's simply "a little bit of a
bonus." |
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Other Information |
Plays for Hollywood Knights Celebrity basketball team.
Attended Vanier College in Montreal, Canada, where he holds
5 football records. |
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