Gary Brennan

Acting

Gary Brennan

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Gary is a scholarship graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse Theater School in New York with a resume of TV/film and theatre acting credits spanning 25 years, and is a playwright/screenwriter. Selected TV/film credits include Aaron Sorkin's Molly's Game, Bruce Beresford's Flint, The Expanse, Murdoch Mysteries, Beauty and the Beast and The Strain, as well as Hallmark's Christmas for the Books, The Judy Garland Story and The Virgin Suicides. Gary has performed on stages throughout Ontario including Canadian Stage and The Stratford Festival where he garnered a Guthrie Award. Gary has a Bachelor of Applied Arts from Ryerson University in Radio/TV Arts, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Dalhousie University. Gary was weened on the east coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and lives in Toronto with his wife Sharon McFarlane (actress), and their two children Jamie and Bethany.

Acting credits

The Virgin Suicides poster
7.1

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

The Virgin Suicides

2000

Molly's Game poster
7.2

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

Molly's Game

2017

Owning Mahowny poster
6.8

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Owning Mahowny

2003

Direct Action poster
5.1

Frank Gannon, a veteran cop, is being hunted by his fellow police officers after they learned he has betrayed the brotherhood and exposed to the feds wide scale corruption of the LAPD. He has one day left to prove his case and survive.

Direct Action

2004

Bleacher Bums poster
6.8

They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been attending for years, tirelessly rooting for a team that never seems to win. They know each other, but that's no guarantee that they'll get along. As the game unfolds, the Bums argue, wager, cheer and boo... and discover they share more in common than they could ever have imagined.

Bleacher Bums

2001

The Good Shepherd poster
5.3

When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.

The Good Shepherd

2004

No artwork available
NR

A former child cellist with DID is kept isolated by her controlling husband/therapist on a remote island. Her multiple personalities become key to breaking free from his psychological manipulation.

Olivia

Full Disclosure poster
4.5

A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.

Full Disclosure

2001

A Very Country Wedding poster
6.0

Zane and Jeannette’s wedding is delayed due to Zane’s crazy tour schedule and the two must overcome paparazzi and rumors to find their way back together.

A Very Country Wedding

2019

Flint poster
6.8

A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.

Flint

2017

Charms for the Easy Life poster
8.5

The story of three women who live in a North Carolina town and defy the traditional roles set forth for them by society.

Charms for the Easy Life

2002

A Christmas for the Books poster
5.3

Lifestyle guru and romance expert Joanna Moret has developed a foolproof strategy for ending holiday loneliness and it's all detailed in her best-selling book, The Love Audit. After appearing on a morning show, she is offered the biggest opportunity of her career—to throw the MacAllen Holiday Gala—and if all goes well, she'll get her own TV show. Little do her fans—or the MacAllens—know that she is newly single and can't seem to apply her principles to her own love life. Joanna asks the morning show producer, Ted, to pretend they are a couple or risk being exposed as a fraud.

A Christmas for the Books

2018

No artwork available
NR

A device capable of storing and transmitting electrical energy is the center of a probe into a scientist's death.

Superconductor

1988