Dan Beirne

{{short description|Canadian actor}}

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| birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

| occupation = Actor

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Daniel Beirne (born August 12, 1982) is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance as William Lyon Mackenzie King in the 2019 film The Twentieth Century,Kevin Ritchie, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/the-twentieth-century-matthew-rankin-review/ "Review: The Twentieth Century is an absorbing visual delight"]. Now, December 12, 2019. for which he won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019[https://www.tricitynews.com/vancouver-film-critics-award-the-body-remembers-when-the-world-broke-open-1.24047775 "Vancouver film critics award 'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223204841/https://www.tricitynews.com/vancouver-film-critics-award-the-body-remembers-when-the-world-broke-open-1.24047775 |date=2020-02-23 }}. Tri-City News, January 7, 2020. and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Actor at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.Norman Wilner, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/canadian-screen-awards-nominations-2020/ "Canadian Screen Awards 2020: Prepare for a Schitt's show"]. Now, February 18, 2020.

He also starred in the films Great Great Great,Norman Wilner, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/great-great-great-lives-up-to-that-title/ "Great Great Great lives up to that title"]. Now, October 4, 2017. Suck It Up,Norman Wilner, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/suck-it-up-jordan-canning-review/ "Suck It Up deals with pain and death but is weirdly charming"]. Now, November 30, 2017. and I Like Movies. He has had television roles as Sonny Greer in Fargo, Gary Goldman in Workin' Moms, Nick in Ginny and Georgia, Tommy in The Guest Book,Whitney Friedlander, [https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/10/the-guest-book-tbs-greg-garcia-season-2-interview.html "With The Guest Book, Greg Garcia Embraces Peak TV's Latest Trend: The Passion Project"]. Paste, October 22, 2018. and the Drive-Thru Guy in Humour Resources, and appeared in the web series Space Riders: Division Earth,Melita Kuburas, [http://playbackonline.ca/2014/09/30/starz-picks-up-ithentics-space-riders/ "Starz picks up iThentic’s Space Riders"]. Playback, September 30, 2014. The Bitter End,Miranda Campbell, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. {{ISBN|9780773588509}}. pp. 142-147. Dad Drives,Danielle Ng See Quan, [http://playbackonline.ca/2013/05/13/dad-drives-web-series-gets-10000-bite-development-deal/ "Dad Drives web series gets $10,000 Bite development deal"]. Playback, May 13, 2013. Ghost BFFJordan Pinto, [http://playbackonline.ca/2019/11/22/ghost-bff-floats-to-kindatv-for-season-two/ "Ghost BFF floats to KindaTV for season two"]. Playback, Ginny & Georgia, November 22, 2019. and Detention Adventure.

He won a Canadian Screen Award in 2015 as a co-creator and producer of Space Riders: Division Earth, and has won two Canadian Comedy Awards as a writer and creator of Dad DrivesDanielle Ng See Quan, [http://playbackonline.ca/2013/10/08/goon-awkward-sexual-adventure-win-at-canadian-comedy-awards/ "Goon, Awkward Sexual Adventure win at Canadian Comedy Awards"]. Playback, October 8, 2013. and Space Riders: Division Earth.

He has also previously been a music writer and editor of the blog Said the Gramophone, selected by Time magazine as one of the 25 best blogs in the world in 2009.{{Cite magazine | url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1879276_1879279_1879072,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220235726/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1879276_1879279_1879072,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=February 20, 2009 | title=25 Best Blogs 2009 | magazine=Time| date=2009-02-13}}