Yannick Bisson

Yannick Denis Bisson is a Canadian film and television actor and director. He is best known for starring as Detective William Murdoch on the television series Murdoch Mysteries, a role he has played since 2008.

Bisson was born on May 16, 1969, in Montreal, Quebec, and is of French and English ancestry. As a teenager, he moved to Toronto, Ontario. His acting career began while he was still in high school after his father encouraged him to respond to a newspaper advertisement seeking child actors.

Bisson's first major role arrived in the 1984 CBC movie of the week Hockey Night, appearing alongside Megan Follows and Rick Moranis. He later starred in the Canadian television series Learning the Ropes from 1988 through 1989. From 1994 through 1997, Bisson co-starred with Rick Springfield in the syndicated action series High Tide. He moved back to Vancouver, British Columbia, from Los Angeles in 1998 after being cast as the lead in the CBC drama series Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy. From 2000 through 2004, he held a recurring role as attorney Brian Tedrow on the Showtime drama Soul Food.

Throughout his career, Bisson has appeared in numerous television productions and movies. He starred as FBI agent Jack Hudson in the PAX TV series Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. His other television movie credits include Crazy for Christmas, I do (but I don't), Genius, Brothers by Choice, Keshan, and Loves Music, Loves to Dance. He also appeared on Season 2 of Falcon Beach, guest-starred on Flashpoint, played Jon in all of the Roxy Hunter movies to date, and voiced the character Ferdie in the animated children's series Maxie's World. Additionally, Bisson featured in a series of commercials for CIBC and hosted the reality show Star Racer on Discovery Canada Channel.

Since 2008, Bisson has portrayed the title character in CBC Television's Murdoch Mysteries. He expanded his involvement with the show by making his directorial debut on the season four episode titled "Buffalo Shuffle." Starting in December 2013, he also starred as preschool teacher Mr. Anthony in the CBC series The Adventures of Napkin Man. Later, he played CIA agent Martin Bartell in the Hallmark Channel series Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, debuting in "Three Bedrooms, One Corpse" before leaving the project in 2018.

Bisson's contributions to television have been recognized with several awards. He received the Fan's Choice Award at the 2016 Canadian Screen Awards and was honored with the ACTRA Toronto Award of Excellence for his lifetime of work in 2017. Furthermore, Murdoch Mysteries received Canadian Screen Award Golden Screen Awards in 2017, 2018, and 2020.