Miklos Perlus
{{Short description|Canadian actor}}
{{Infobox person
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|3|23}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| other_names = Mik Perlus
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|writer|story editor{{cite web|url=http://www.northernstars.ca/actorspqr/perlus_mikos.html|title=Mikos Perlus - Northern Stars|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714130410/http://www.northernstars.ca/actorspqr/perlus_mikos.html|archivedate=2014-07-14}}}}
| years_active = 1988–present
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Miklos Perlus (born March 23, 1977) is a Canadian actor, writer, and story editor. Perlus has appeared on Canadian series Student Bodies, Road to Avonlea and Sidekick. He has written for Degrassi: The Next Generation and other series. He has also worked in television program development for several organizations.
Biography
Perlus was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Miklos-Perlus/|title=Behind The Voice Actors - Miklos Perlus|accessdate=10 November 2013}} He attended McGill University, where he studied Cultural Studies.
Perlus played Victor Kane on Student Bodies,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124260/|title=Student Bodies (1997–1999) -IMDb|website=IMDb }} and Peter Craig on Road to Avonlea.[https://books.google.com/books?id=pBXx3hrlVbgC&dq=%22miklos+perlus%22&pg=RA1-PA181 Making Avonlea: L.M. Montgomery and popular culture by Irene Gammel, pg 181]
Perlus' experience has included a variety of roles in media as a writer, a story editor and he has developed several television productions.{{Cite web |url=http://www.marblemedia.com/news/article.php?id=64 |title=marblemedia Names New Content Development Head |access-date=2014-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714200908/http://www.marblemedia.com/news/article.php?id=64 |archive-date=2014-07-14 |url-status=dead }} He also wrote and co-developed CTV's Instant Star, and served as a writer and story editor for Degrassi: The Next Generation. He was the co-winner of a Writers Guild of Canada award (shared with James Hurst) for an episode of Degrassi.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070218101010/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061127/degrassi_awards_061127/20061128/?s_name=degrassi2006&no_ads=sky CTV]
In 2008, Perlus became Marblemedia's Director of Content Development, where he was responsible for creating, sourcing and developing innovative multi-platform content and bringing them to fruition for television and digital media.[http://banffmediafestival.com/delegates/profile/?contactID=40975 Miklos Perlus - Banff World Media Festival] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20140715081053/http://banffmediafestival.com/delegates/profile/?contactID=40975 |date=2014-07-15 }} In 2010, he became the voice of Eric for the YTV animated series, Sidekick. From 2014 to 2016, he served as Vice President, Kids and Family at Marblemedia.[http://www.marblemedia.com/who/people.php?team=exec Executive Team - marblemedia] In 2016, Perlus created and executive produced a live-action family comedy for preschoolers called Opie's Home. In 2017, he joined the animated series Nina's World (PBS Kids Sprout) as supervising producer, after which he joined Pipeline Studios to write and produce Doggy World for Disney Channel Latin America and to write for Elinor Wonders Why and Alma's Way for PBS, the latter of which earned him an Emmy nomination for best writing. In 2021, Perlus joined Moonbug Entertainment as creative producer on the preschool series Cocomelon for Netflix. He also joined WildBrain as creative producer on the reboot of Caillou, producing five CG animated specials and 52 episodes of the series for Peacock.
In 2022, Perlus released an EP of original music called "Ragged Islands" as well as a single called "Joanna”, about his wife.
Perlus has two sons, Dov and Everett.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1995
|New Kid | |
| 2000
|Sunbeam (voice) | |
| 2001
|Nowhere in Sight |Sean Finley | |
| 2002
|Expecting |Movie star | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1988
| |Episode: "Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" |
| 1990–92
|Peter Craig |Recurring role |
| 1991
|Jimmy |Episode: "Ways and Means" |
| 1994
|Vince (voice) |Episode: "Game Over" |
| 1994–96
|Highlander: The Animated Series |Quentin MacLeod (voice) |Main role |
| 1995
|Jamie |Episode: "Just Friends" |
| 1997–00
|Victor Kane |Main role |
| 1998-99
|Jim Button |Jim Button (voice) |Main role |
| 2001
|TV film |
| 2001
|Derek |Episode: "The Summoning" |
| 2003
|(voice, English version) |TV series |
| 2006
|Brad |Episode: "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn: Part 1" |
| 2010
|Jules (voice) |Episode: "The Hacker's Challenge" |
| 2010–13
|Eric Needles (voice) |Main role, also wrote a few episodes |
Other work
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2002
|{{sortname|The|Legend of Razorback|nolink=1}} |Second assistant director |
| 2004-05
|Degrassi: The Next Generation |Junior story editor (17 episodes), writer (5 episodes) |
| 2005-08
|Developer (7 episodes) |
| 2011-12
|Developer (26 episodes) |
| 2014
|Developer (39 episodes), writer (9 episodes), associate producer |
| 2015
|Developer (12 episodes) |
| 2017
|Opie's Home |Writer (6 episodes) |
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|0674280}}
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Category:Canadian male film actors
Category:Canadian male television actors
Category:Canadian male voice actors
Category:Canadian male screenwriters
Category:Male actors from Toronto
Category:Screenwriters from Toronto
Category:Canadian people of Greek Cypriot descent
Category:20th-century Canadian screenwriters
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers