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110 || CELEBRITY MAGAZINE || MAY-JUNE 2017evin is an actor from Toronto, Ontario. From an early age Kevin%u2019s passion for cinema was undeniable. After making his first short films in high-school, Kevin found himself at the University of Toronto where he graduated with Honours from the Cinema Studies program. Though he had never acted before, Kevin started studying at The Professional Actors%u2019 Lab during his third year of undergrad. From that point on, his career path changed dramatically. Kevin has quickly built a successful and promising acting career. He has just finished shooting a lead role in CBC%u2019s much anticipated new series 21 Thunderpremiering in the summer of 2017. Since booking a role in his first ever audition (Kevin landed a part on the hit ABC show Flashpoint) Kevin has had the privilege of working with some of the best and brightest minds in the industry. Kevin recently worked alongside actress Riley Keough (Mad Max: Fury Road) with a recurring part in the Golden Globe nominated show The Girlfriend Experience (Starz).Some of Kevin%u2019s more recent credits include roles on NBC%u2019s Heroes Reborn, Rogue (TMN), American Gothic (CBS), and Nikita (CW). Kevin will also be featured in the upcoming season of the critical SYFY hit The Expanse and in the much anticipated film State Like Sleep (2017) starring Michael Shannon and Katherine Waterston. Kevin has received praise for his acting talent at every juncture of his career. In 2013, Kevin was singled out and selected to be one of a handful of students accepted into the world renowned Actor%u2019s Studio in New York at Pace University. Kevin has also written three short films that have been produced, one of which (On The Fringe) won multiple comedy awards at film festivals in Canada. Kevin also produced his first short film (Contingent) in 2015 with another currently in production. Kevin currently resides in Toronto where he continues to push the boundaries of his work everydayYou have quite a few cool projects you have worked on that are coming out, can you tell us a little bit about each one?Well I guess the biggest project I have coming out is 21 Thunder. It will air this summer on CBC and is an eight-episode drama about a U-21 soccer team in Montreal. It%u2019s about competitive sports, sex, drugs, money and relationships. Doesn%u2019t get much better than that. I play one of the main characters in the show and having the opportunity to live with a character for three and a half months of shooting was probably the most interesting part of the entire process. It was such a large scale production. Although that can be distracting, the cast and crew were so phenomenal that it was probably the best shooting experience of my life. We all became a close family and I am so lucky to have had that experience. I also shot a couple of episodes of The Expanse that air this spring. It is in its second season on SyFy and is set in a future world where humans have colonized the Solar System. I don%u2019t want to say too much about the character I play because of his role in the story, but I can tell you that being on that set was a whirlwind. They have an amazing cast and crew and have created this amazing futuristic world. It%u2019s an incredibly large and impressive production and I am not surprised at all that the show is getting the great reviews that it has. I was very fortunate to get to work on it. I also worked on a film titled State Like Sleep starring Katherine Waterston and Michael Shannon which opens later in the year. I am quite excited to see it. It is a strong character piece and getting to work with someone like Katherine Waterston is always a great way to learn. She%u2019s incredible.What inspired you to want to become an actor, was there an actor or a film or a play that made you say, %u201cI want to do that?%u201dThe truth is, I never really thought about being an actor when I was a kid. I was always into cinema but thought I was going to be a writer or a director. I went to school and studied cinema, but from a theoretical perspective more than anything. I didn%u2019t even take drama Actor & WriterKevin Claydonwww.instagram.com/kgclaydonwww.twitter.com/kevclay1 Photo Credit:Brian Hamilton