Joe Cobden
CountryCanada 
GenderMale
BirthdayOct 7, 1978
BiographyJoe Cobden (born October 7, 1978 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. He started performing at age 10 as a street vaudevillian, touring festivals worldwide. In 1996, at age 17, Cobden enrolled at Concordia University's Theatre Performance Programme, in Montreal.
Cobden played triplets in the television series Living in Your Car, for which he received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 26th Gemini Awards in 2011, as well as the lead role in the movie Peepers, for which he was nominated for a 2011 Canadian Comedy Award (best actor). He was the sole voice role in the animated television series Knuckleheads, for which he played over 60 characters was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.
As a director, he made six shorts for Sesame Street, musical videos for Plants and Animals, The Barr Brothers, and Mike O'Brien, and short films with premieres at SXSW, TIFF, and Palm Springs. His choreographic films have won awards, including at Cinédans and the Cabbagetown Film Festival.
He was the showrunner of a sketch comedy show for Quibi, produced by Abso Lutely and Supper Club. The show, Toothpix, was based on a series of absurd video Yelp “reviews” of LA restaurants.
He is the writer and lead actor of four musicals with Canadian musician Socalled. All premiered at Kampnagel in Hamburg.
He was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2015 for the lead role in the Tarragon Theatre production of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Joe Cobden. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Cobden played triplets in the television series Living in Your Car, for which he received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 26th Gemini Awards in 2011, as well as the lead role in the movie Peepers, for which he was nominated for a 2011 Canadian Comedy Award (best actor). He was the sole voice role in the animated television series Knuckleheads, for which he played over 60 characters was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017.
As a director, he made six shorts for Sesame Street, musical videos for Plants and Animals, The Barr Brothers, and Mike O'Brien, and short films with premieres at SXSW, TIFF, and Palm Springs. His choreographic films have won awards, including at Cinédans and the Cabbagetown Film Festival.
He was the showrunner of a sketch comedy show for Quibi, produced by Abso Lutely and Supper Club. The show, Toothpix, was based on a series of absurd video Yelp “reviews” of LA restaurants.
He is the writer and lead actor of four musicals with Canadian musician Socalled. All premiered at Kampnagel in Hamburg.
He was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 2015 for the lead role in the Tarragon Theatre production of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.
Biography from the Wikipedia article Joe Cobden. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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