# Dan Beirne

Daniel Beirne (born August 12, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance as William Lyon 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.
He also starred in the films Great Great Great, Suck It Up, and I Like Movies. He has had television roles as Sonny Greer in Fargo, Gary Goldman in Workin' Moms, Nick in Ginny and Georgia, Tommy in The Guest Book, and the Drive-Thru Guy in Humour Resources, and appeared in the web series Space Riders: Division Earth, The Bitter End, Dad Drives, Ghost BFF and Detention Adventure.
He won a Canadian Screen Award in 2015 as a co-creator and producer of Space Riders: Division Earth, and has won two Canadian Comedy Awards as a writer and creator of Dad Drives and Space Riders: Division Earth.
He has also previously been a music writer and editor of the blog Said the Gramophone, selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 best blogs in the world in 2009.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2008 | Who Is KK Downey? | Charles |
| 2009 | The Trotsky | Dan |
| 2010 | I Heart Doomsday | Dr. Maximillian Von Max |
| 2010 | Peepers | Stu |
| 2011 | The Future Is Now! | Young man |
| 2012 | Beat Down | Henry |
| 2012 | On the Road | Newlywed man |
| 2013 | Three Night Stand | Aaron |
| 2014 | We Were Wolves | Paul |
| 2017 | Suck It Up | Granvilles |
| 2017 | Great Great Great | Tom Anderson |
| 2018 | The Dark | Officer Nate Stevens |
| 2019 | American Hangman | Tom |
| 2019 | The Twentieth Century | William Lyon Mackenzie King |
| 2019 | White Lie | Sam Blumenthal |
| 2021 | Awake | Gregg |
| 2022 | I Like Movies | Owen |
| 2023 | I Used to Be Funny | Tim |
| 2023 | Priscilla | Joe Esposito |
| 2024 | Paying for It | Chester Brown |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | Perfect Plan | Evan | Television film |
| 2012 | Life with Boys | Zach | Episode: "Double Trouble with Boys" |
| 2012 | Flashpoint | Andrew | Episode: "No Kind of Life" |
| 2012 | Willed to Kill | Detective Manson | Television film |
| 2014 | Apple Mortgage Cake | Herman Flue | Television film |
| 2014–2023 | Murdoch Mysteries | Ian Vagle | 3 episodes |
| 2014 | Odd Squad | Beach man | Episode: "Skip Day/The Great Grinaldi" |
| 2015 | Fargo | Sonny Greer | 5 episodes |
| 2016–2017 | The Beaverton | Phil Paulson | 2 episodes |
| 2017–2023 | Workin' Moms | Gary Goldman | 18 episodes |
| 2017 | Reign | George | Episode: "With Friends Like These..." |
| 2017 | The Handmaid's Tale | Barista | Episode: "Late" |
| 2017 | American Gods | Ice cream vendor | Episode: "A Prayer for Mad Sweeney" |
| 2018 | Carter | Adam | Episode: "The Flood" |
| 2018 | The Guest Book | Tommy | Main role (season 2) |
| 2019 | You're the Worst | Tom | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | The Bold Type | Toby | Episode: "The Deep End" |
| 2019 | Titans | Jacob Finlay | Episode: "Aqualad" |
| 2020 | Mrs. America | Hamilton Jordan | Episode: "Reagan" |
| 2021 | Humour Resources | Drive-thru guy | Main role; 4 episodes |
| 2021–present | Ginny & Georgia | Nick | Recurring role |
| 2021 | The Moodys | Dustin Lundgren | Season 2, episode 8 |
| 2021 | Hudson & Rex | Griffin Birch | Episode: "Rex Marks the Spot" |
| 2022 | High School | Mr. Gardner | 2 episodes |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities | Deputy Davis | Episode: "The Autopsy" |
| 2022 | Transplant | Ezra / Liam | Episode: "And So It Goes" |
| 2023 | Red Iron Road | Marquise D'Urfe | Episode: "VRDLK: Family of Vurdulak" |
| 2023 | Accused | ADA Roger Doty | Episode: "Jack's Story" |
| 2023 | Gen V | Social Media Jeff | Recurring role |
| 2024 | Davey & Jonesie's Locker | Mr. Schneider | Main role |
| 2024 | One More Time | Wayne | Main role |

### Web

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2009 | The Bitter End | Bernard Price | 6 episodes |
| 2012–2014 | Dad Drives | Malcolm | 11 episodes |
| 2015 | The Plateaus | Guille | Episode: "The Badger Trip" |
| 2014–2017 | Space Riders: Division Earth | Philip | 23 episodes |
| 2018 | Ghost BFF | Mitchell | 7 episodes |
| 2019 | Detention Adventure | Mr. Applebaum | 6 episodes |
| 2019 | Bigfoot | Mr. Ferret | Episode: "Endangered" |
| 2019 | Bit Playas | Casting director #2 | Episode: "Auditions" |
| 2020 | The Amazing Gayl Pile | Rick | 5 episodes |