Blake Mawson
Blake Mawson is a Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter. He is most noted as director of the short film Pyotr495, for which he won the Emerging Artist Award at the 2016 Inside Out Film and Video Festival and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards for Best Direction in a Web Program or Series.
As an actor, he had a starring role in Gore, Quebec, as well as small parts in the films X2, Freddy vs. Jason, and Nurse 3D, and the television series Sk8, Cold Squad, The Evidence, Blade and The Strain.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mawson is a graduate of the Directors' Lab program at the Canadian Film Centre. His feature film debut, tentatively titled The Viridian, is in development and was selected for Inside Out's 2020 Finance Forum.
He is out as LGBT.
