Wayne Burns

Production

Wayne Burns

Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada

Wayne Burns is a Canadian-American actor and producer. Hailing from Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, he may be most recognized for his series regular role as Lykos, the Prince of Athens, in the Syfy Original Series, Olympus (2015), created by BAFTA © Nominee Nick Willing. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, Wayne has starred opposite Golden Globe © Winner Richard Gere in Longing (2024), Emmy Nominee © Ben Foster in Sharp Corner (2024) and the late Cory Monteith in All the Wrong Reasons (2013). He can also be seen in audience favourites: Mr. D (2012), Murdoch Mysteries (2008), Baroness Von Sketch Show (2016), and What We Do in the Shadows (2019). Wayne has starred in and produced several short films, most notably the award-winning CBC-funded short film LIAR (2020) alongside Allister MacDonald, fastLOVE (2025) and EEL (2025), which had their world premieres at Roze Filmdagen and the Atlantic International Film Festival, respectively. Wayne was selected for the 2026 Producer's Lab at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, Canada.

Acting credits

Longing poster
5.6

A business mogul runs into his old small town girlfriend while she is visiting the big city only to find out that they had a child together that he was unaware of.

Longing

2024

Sharp Corner poster
5.8

A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

Sharp Corner

2025

fastLOVE poster
NR

On New Year’s Eve, a broke and restless young man is drawn into a risky encounter with a hustler's client at a hotel, only to find himself unravelling a web of deceit, power dynamics, and personal boundaries.

fastLOVE

2025

Blackbird poster
6.7

An unlikely friendship with a preppy classmate lands toubled teenager Sean Randall in serious hot water when he's falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario.

Blackbird

2012

The Players poster
8.7

Summer. 1994. Emily is cast as the youngest member of an avant garde theatre production. She is immediately entranced by the bohemian lives of her fellow actors and feels like she has found a surrogate family, but as the lines between artistic and personal relationships blur, Emily becomes trapped in the complex power dynamics within the group.

The Players

2025

Eel poster
NR

A young man turns to illegal eel fishing to support his family.

Eel

2025

All the Wrong Reasons poster
5.8

An ensemble film about four everyday people: a store manager, a security guard, a fire fighter and a clerk who struggle in the aftermath of trauma.

All the Wrong Reasons

2013

White Night poster
NR

Lives intertwine over the course of the Nuit Blanche art festival.

White Night

2017

A Dinner Party poster
4.8

In the aftermath of climate catastrophe, a lonely former environmental activist invites three strange guests over for dinner.

A Dinner Party

2019

The Gift Giver poster
1.0

An HIV support group is infiltrated by a young man with the intention of contracting the virus.

The Gift Giver

2017

Liar poster
NR

What begins as a seemingly innocent hookup between two young men quickly turns enigmatic as Mark and Jeremy grapple with their insecurities, dark pasts and relationships to love in a time of transactional sex and irresponsibility. A subversive queer parable, LIAR is a stylish, intimate drama that aims to crack open conversations around consent, queer suicide, ghosting culture and the cost of vulnerability.

Liar

2020

Behind the camera

fastLOVE poster
NR

On New Year’s Eve, a broke and restless young man is drawn into a risky encounter with a hustler's client at a hotel, only to find himself unravelling a web of deceit, power dynamics, and personal boundaries.

fastLOVE

2025

fastLOVE poster
NR

On New Year’s Eve, a broke and restless young man is drawn into a risky encounter with a hustler's client at a hotel, only to find himself unravelling a web of deceit, power dynamics, and personal boundaries.

fastLOVE

2025

fastLOVE poster
NR

On New Year’s Eve, a broke and restless young man is drawn into a risky encounter with a hustler's client at a hotel, only to find himself unravelling a web of deceit, power dynamics, and personal boundaries.

fastLOVE

2025

Greenhorn poster
NR

A young masculine-presenting woman must return home to help her estranged father, an ex-rancher, recover from a car accident — only to discover that reconciliation isn’t so easy when identity is at stake.

Greenhorn

2025

Body So Fluorescent poster
NR

Two friends have a falling out after a night of dancing.

Body So Fluorescent

2020

Eel poster
NR

A young man turns to illegal eel fishing to support his family.

Eel

2025

Eel poster
NR

A young man turns to illegal eel fishing to support his family.

Eel

2025

Liar poster
NR

What begins as a seemingly innocent hookup between two young men quickly turns enigmatic as Mark and Jeremy grapple with their insecurities, dark pasts and relationships to love in a time of transactional sex and irresponsibility. A subversive queer parable, LIAR is a stylish, intimate drama that aims to crack open conversations around consent, queer suicide, ghosting culture and the cost of vulnerability.

Liar

2020

Liar poster
NR

What begins as a seemingly innocent hookup between two young men quickly turns enigmatic as Mark and Jeremy grapple with their insecurities, dark pasts and relationships to love in a time of transactional sex and irresponsibility. A subversive queer parable, LIAR is a stylish, intimate drama that aims to crack open conversations around consent, queer suicide, ghosting culture and the cost of vulnerability.

Liar

2020

Soap poster
NR

Soap is a short film that explores the value of platonic intimacy, especially in the queer community. Based on past heartbreak and present friendship.

Soap

2023

BUNKER TIME! poster
NR

BUNKER TIME! is a nuclear nightmare years in the making: In the early 60s - the height of the Cold War - TV personality 'Auntie Pearle' wrote, directed and starred in a public-access show that aimed to prepare children for the nuclear apocalypse. Deemed too disturbing to air, the show was buried for years; only now, in even MORE disturbing times, is Bunker Time! fit to be unleashed on the public.

BUNKER TIME!

2025