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Name: Colin Ferguson
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Date of Birth:
July 22, 1972
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Place of Birth:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mini-bio:
Born in Montreal, Colin Ferguson grew up in Hong Kong, England, Connecticut
and Toronto. He got into improv comedy to make money to put himself through McGill
University, and he was a founding membe...( read more)r of Detroit's Second City comedy club while
still in school.
Ferguson worked in a variety of occupations before he made acting his full-time
profession. He taught high school when he was only 19, planted 3,000 trees a day in
the Canadian north and even worked as a mannequin in store windows. When he worked
the assembly line at a factory for General Electric (parent company of NBC
Universal), he never imagined that he would work for the company again as an actor.
His feature-film credits include the Universal movie Because I Said So with Diane
Keaton and Mandy Moore, Rowing Through, The Opposite of Sex, Guy in Row Five and The
Surprise Party. He was a regular on the NBC remake of the hit British comedy series
Coupling and the ABC sitcom Then Came You. He has had many guest-starring roles, on
such series as Line of Fire, Malcolm in the Middle, Crossing Jordan, Becker and
Titus.
In addition, Ferguson has starred in several telefilms, such as Mom at 16, We Were
the Mulvaneys, Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber, Ladies' Night, More
Tales of the City and Lifetime's Playing House.
Currently he stars in Sci-Fi's Original Series Eureka as Sherriff Jack Carter.