T. W. Peacocke


TW Peacocke is a Canadian television and film director.

Background

Peacocke was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Canada, and holds citizenship of both the United States and Canada. He graduated from Université de Caen, France, then attended Yale University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1983. He later studied at New York University Tisch School of the Arts between 1983 and 1984. Peacocke married British citizen Amanda Pieris in 2010. Peacocke is well-known in the Canadian television industry, and has directed episodes of Madison, Cold Squad, Blue Murder, Traders and Made in Canada.
He has won two Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Direction of a television series.
He has directed more than 200 episodes of over thirty different television series, including Schitt's Creek, Rookie Blue, Heartland, The Border, M.V.P., Rent-a-Goalie, Show Me Yours, The Eleventh Hour, Blue Murder, Mutant X, Made in Canada, Cold Squad, Amazon, Traders, North of 60, The Rez, Black Harbour, The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Jake and the Kid, Madison, Beast Wars: Transformers, and The Odyssey. He also directed the four-hour television mini-series, Canada Russia '72, for which he received a Best Director Gemini Award nomination.
He has appeared as an actor numerous times, in episodes of Rent-a-Goalie, Traders, Madison, and Canada Russia '72, in which he played the captain of the Soviet hockey team, Victor Kuzkin.

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