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Ron Sparks is a Actor Canadien born on 20 may 1977

Ron Sparks

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Nationality Canada
Birth 20 may 1977 (47 years)

Ron Sparks (born May 20, 1977) is a Canadian comedian, actor and writer. He was born in Chatham-Kent, Ontario and lives in Toronto, Ontario, where he is best known as a comedian and regular and favourite juror on MuchMusic's highest-rated show, Video on Trial. He also starred as The Judge in the MuchMusic "Holiday Wrap" special Stars on Trial.

Biography

Sparks first began performing with York University's Vanier Improv Company then sketch comedy. His troupe, The Minnesota Wrecking Crew, were nominated four straight years (2003–2006) for Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Sketch Troupe, winning in 2003 and 2004. In 2006 they won a third Canadian Comedy Award for Best Taped Live Performance for the CBC Television special Sketch with Kevin McDonald.

He began performing stand-up in April 2003 at The ALTdot COMedy Lounge and won that year's Tim Sims Award, given to Toronto's most promising new comedy act, then followed it up with the 2004 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Stand-up Newcomer. Frank Magazine described him as "the next stand-up wunderkind". Stand-up credits include the Halifax, Winnipeg and Just for Laughs comedy festivals. He was named JFL's Toronto Homegrown Champion.

On television he stars in MuchMusic's highest rated show Video on Trial and its spin-off, Stars on Trial. He has also been a regular on various Ed the Sock series and The Toronto Show. His CTV Comedy Now! stand-up special aired in 2008 and won a WorldFest Award and two Canadian Comedy Awards. He has also made appearances on CBC Radio's Brave New Waves and Out Front.

He has written his own series of shorts for The Comedy Network, From the Desk of Ron Sparks, and for various other series including This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Little Mosque, Life's a Zoo and Crash Canyon.

Currently Sparks has a weekly live show in Toronto, The Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, which he also does as a weekly segment on 102.1 The Edge. He is also a regular guest on CBC Radio's The Debaters.

He has also won several awards as a playwright.

He is not related to fellow comedian Hal Sparks.

In 2006 he offered to fight Uwe Boll who had challenged his critics to a series of boxing matches leading up to the release of his movie Postal, but Boll declined due to Sparks's size advantage because he would be fighting five boxers back-to-back.

He is the subject of The Essential Actor's Guide: Spotlight on Ron Sparks, part of a series of 32 books about actors; other subjects in the series include Javier Bardem, Daniel Day-Lewis, Colin Firth, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Tommy Lee Jones, Heath Ledger, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Kate Winslet.

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Andrew Cymek
Andrew Cymek
(1 films)
Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush
(1 films)
Joe Dinicol
Joe Dinicol
(1 films)
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Filmography of Ron Sparks (1 films)

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Medium Raw
Medium Raw (2010)
, 1h40
Directed by Andrew Cymek
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors William B. Davis, John Rhys-Davies, Boyd Banks, Brigitte Kingsley, Mercedes McNab, Andrew Cymek
Rating43% 2.167742.167742.167742.167742.16774
This script must be run from the command line
Elvis Meets Nixon
Directed by Allan Arkush
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films, Political films
Actors Rick Peters, Bob Gunton, Alyson Court, Curtis Armstrong, Dick Cavett, Jackie Burroughs
Roles Street Performer (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.490573.490573.490573.490573.49057
Elvis Presley, bored with his confined existence in Graceland, leaves his home on his own for the first time since he was 21. He winds up in California and is convinced by an Anti-war activist that he is responsible for the counterculture through his influence on The Beatles. This convinces Elvis to write a letter to President Nixon asking to be made a "Federal Agent at Large" for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. No such position actually exists, but Nixon, wanting desperately to win over the youth of America, which he views as hating him, decides to meet with Elvis in an attempt to improve his image with the "kids".