Richard Clarkin is an award-winning film, television, and theatre actor. On screen, he starred in The Drawer Boy, for which he received the Canadian Film Award for Featured Performance, and plays Dick Dunphy in the CBC hit Son of a Critch. He has originated roles such as Jacob Mercer in Salt Water Moon for the stage and was part of the historic run of The Lion King in Toronto where he played Scar. Clarkin makes his home in Toronto and PEI.