Andrew Walker (actor)
Andrew Walker is a Canadian actor and film producer. He made his film debut in Laserhawk, followed by roles in American television series such as Maybe It's Me, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Hot Properties. He also co-starred in Steel Toes, which earned him an ACTRA Award for Best Actor in 2008. He subsequently appeared in films such as The Mountie and The Gundown, and had a starring role on the Lifetime cop drama Against the Wall.
Personal life
Walker was born in Montréal, Canada on June 9, 1979, the son of the late Joyce Walker, a librarian, and Bruce Walker, a school administrator. His sister is actress and model Jenimay Walker. He is a graduate of Vanier College, where he played football and was given a full scholarship to play at Boston College. After his commitment to BC, he returned home to spring camp at Vanier and tore his anterior cruciate ligament during a routine drill, thus ending his football career.He is married to fellow Montrealer Cassandra Troy. Together they have two sons: West, born July 2015, and Wolf, born December 2019. In 2013, the couple, along with a friend, started Clover, a company that bottles fresh, cold-pressed juices, with locations in the Los Angeles area. In 2018, the couple rebranded their juice company, naming it Little West after their love of the west coast and their son, West.
Career
Walker started his acting career in Montreal as a recurring lead on the series Student Bodies in 1996-1997, a series lead on Back to Sherwood and then Radio Active from 1998-2000. A month after he arrived in Hollywood he booked a series lead on the TV show Maybe It's Me, then Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Following a holding deal at Warner Bros., he worked on Wicked Minds, Adopted, Lies and Deception and then landed a recurring spot on the short-lived ABC sitcom Hot Properties.In 2006, he played a Neo-Nazi skinhead in the film Steel Toes. His performance won him a 2006 Phillip Borsos award at the Whistler Film Festival and the 2008 ACTRA Award for Best Actor.
Walker appeared in the 2007 Lifetime film Abducted: Fugitive For Love. He went on to guest-star on ER, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without a Trace, Reba, and The Big Bang Theory.
In 2010, he guest-starred in the Fox comedy series Sons of Tucson, the Spaghetti Western film The Gundown, and was associate producer for the film Dug Up. In 2011, Walker appeared in a Canadian western film, The Mountie, and produced four documentaries and reality TV series in development, also serving as a series regular on Lifetime's cop drama Against the Wall, which was cancelled in December 2011 after thirteen episodes.
In 2012, he starred in his first Hallmark Channel movie A Bride for Christmas alongside Arielle Kebbel. He was reunited with her in Hallmark Movies' Bridal Wave in 2015 after playing Billy Hamilton in two episodes of When Calls the Heart in 2014. He starred with Nikki DeLoach in A Dream of Christmas in 2016, also starring in Appetite for Love and Date with Love. More Hallmark TV movies followed: three more in 2017, three in 2018, and two more in 2019.
He has also starred in several films for Hallmark Mystery, formerly Hallmark Movies and Mysteries: Wedding Planner Mystery in 2014, Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through the Snow in 2015 and Christmas on My Mind in 2019. His first film during SARS-COV-2 was Christmas Tree Lane with Alicia Witt, also reuniting for the third time with real-life friend Nikki DeLoach in Sweet Autumn, both for Hallmark Mystery, in 2020.
In April 2022, Walker signed a multi-picture contract with Crown Media Family Networks. He has starred in several more films for Hallmark, three in 2021, one in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024 and five in 2025. In 2022, he made his first appearance in the Curious Caterer series of movies, appearing in two more both in 2023 and 2024.
Counting all his movies for both channels, he has appeared in a total of 38 films, making him one of the most featured leading men in the Hallmark system.