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Ty Olsson is the Canadian actor who portrays Hordor on ABC's Once Upon a Time.
Biography
Ty Olsson was born on January 28,[1] 1974[citation needed] in Halifax, Nova Scotia and grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. Between elementary school grades seven and eight, he had a troublemaking streak that caught the attention of a teacher, who took him under her wing. From her, Ty was exposed to school plays and auditioned for a program at Canterbury High School, a dramatic arts, dance and vocal institution, which he joined and specialized in all three subjects. Near his final year in high school, he recognized acting as a possible future career and immediately after graduating, began looking into secondary theatre education. Eventually, Ty began attending Studio 58, a prestigious Vancouver-based theatre school for three years. Upon finishing his training there, he spent a season at the Shaw Festival, doing Bernard Shaw plays and contemporaries in Niagara-on-the-Lake.[2]
After returning to Vancouver, Ty started scoring appearances on television and film and made his debut on The X-Files. His notable roles have been as Battlestar Galactica's Captain Aaron Kelly, Mitchell Laurio on the X-Men sequel X2, a portrayal of real-life 9/11 victim Mark Bingham in Flight 93 and Sam on Men in Trees. He has also mastered voice work in series such as Clash of the Titans as Herry, a descendant of Hercules and Dragon Tales as the lovable dragon Ord.[2]
Ty has two daughters, Mackenzie and Dagan Hunter, with ex-wife[3] Leanna Nash.[4]
Trivia
- Shares scenes with fellow Once Upon a Time actress Rose McIver on the Pilot episode of the television series iZombie, where he plays a suspect in a murder that Rose's character is investigating.
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season One | ||||||||||
| "Pilot": | "The Thing You Love Most": | "Snow Falls": | "The Price of Gold": | "That Still Small Voice": | "The Shepherd": | "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter": | "Desperate Souls": | "True North": | "7:15 A.M.": | "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Skin Deep": | "What Happened to Frederick": | "Dreamy": | "Red-Handed": | "Heart of Darkness": | "Hat Trick": | "The Stable Boy": | "The Return": | "The Stranger": | "An Apple Red as Blood": | "A Land Without Magic": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| Once Upon a Time: Specials | ||||||||||
| "Magic is Coming": |
"The Price of Magic": | "Journey to Neverland": | "Wicked is Coming": | "Storybrooke Has Frozen Over": | ||||||
| Archive | Archive | Archive | Absent | Archive | ||||||
| "Secrets of Storybrooke": | "Dark Swan Rises": | "Evil Reigns Once More": | "The Final Battle Begins": | |||||||
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | |||||||
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.
External links
Ty Olsson on Internet Movie Database- Ty Olsson on Wikipedia
- @TyOlsson (Ty Olsson) on X, formerly Twitter
