T. W. Peacocke
TW Peacocke (born 1960) is a Canadian television and film director. Background. Peacocke was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Canada, and holds citizenship of both the United States and Canada. He graduated from Université de Caen, France, then attended Yale University, where he graduated "magna cum laude" in 1983. He later studied at New York University Tisch School of the Arts between 1983 and 1984. Peacocke married Canadian actor Kari Matchett in the 1990s. Peacocke is well-known in the Canadian television industry, and has directed episodes of Madison, Cold Squad, Blue Murder, Traders and  Made in Canada. He has won two Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Direction of a television series (for "Made in Canada" in 2002 and "Rent-a-Goalie" in 2007) and a Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Comedy Program - "Rent-a-Goalie" in 2008). He has directed more than 140 episodes of over twenty-five different television series, including "Rookie Blue", "Heartland", "The Border", "M.V.P." (which he also produced), "Rent-a-Goalie", "Show Me Yours", "The Eleventh Hour", "Blue Murder" (on which he also served as creative consultant), "Mutant X", "Made in Canada", "Cold Squad", "Amazon", "Traders", "North of  60", "The Rez", "Black Harbour", "", "Jake and the Kid", "Madison", "", "The Odyssey", and "Schitt's Creek". He also directed the four-hour television mini-series, "Canada Russia '72", for which he received a Best Director Gemini Award nomination. He has appeared as an actor numerous times, in episodes of "Rent-a-Goalie", "Traders", "Madison", and "Canada Russia '72", in which he played the captain of the Soviet hockey team, Victor Kuzkin.