Acting
Craig Eldridge
Acting
Biography
Craig Eldridge is a Canadian actor whose exact birthday and birthplace are not publicly available in major sources. He began his career in the early 1990s in Winnipeg, Manitoba, performing on stage with local companies including Theatre Aquarius, Neptune Theatre, the Grand Theatre, and the Citadel Theatre, and doing radio work for CBC Radio. He has since accumulated over 100 film and television credits, working consistently in both Canada and the United States. His most notable film credits include a Crime Scene Reporter in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996, starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson), Doran in The Tuxedo (2002, starring Jackie Chan), a Husband in Death to Smoochy (2002), a Pilot (voice) in Pushing Tin (1999), Gene Connors in Breach (2007, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger), Donnelly in Devil (2010), Dan Gifford in House at the End of the Street (2012, starring Elisabeth Moss), Senator Hank Badgley in Miss Sloane (2016, starring Jessica Chastain), Uncle Patrick in The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2019), and Mario Bouchard in Skating to New York (2013). On television, Eldridge is best known for his recurring role as Chase MacPherson in Street Time (2002–2003, 12 episodes, Showtime), Farmer in Condor (2018), Maxwell Kenny in Designated Survivor (2016, starring Kiefer Sutherland), Councilman Chuck Cohen in The Strain (2014–2015, 2 episodes), and Roy Truly in 11.22.63 (2015). He also appeared in The West Wing (2005), Due South (1995, 2 episodes), Murdoch Mysteries, Haven, Suits (2016), Warehouse 13, Flashpoint, Queer as Folk (US, 4 episodes), The Company (2007, 3 episodes), and The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018). His earliest credits include Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993, as an RCMP Officer), Small Gifts (1994), and Conspiracy of Silence (1992, as Constable Langley).
Feature Films (48)
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease
Brian's Song
Nora and Evan are a young married couple who find their finances are in serious trouble as Christmas draws near in this new take on O. Henry's classic story ""The Gift of the Magi.""
Small Gifts
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
Evidence of Blood
When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a solution to avoid natural disaster.
Solar Attack
In order to learn how to be responsible, two wealthy teen sisters are forced to work in the family business by their exasperated father. When company funds goes missing, it's up to the girls to save the day.
Cow Belles
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.
Devil
A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his kidnappers.
When Andrew Came Home
Television & Series (22)
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
Due South
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
Soul Food
The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.
Flashpoint
A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by Max Braithwaite
Wind at My Back
Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.
