Adam MacDonald

Adam MacDonald is a Canadian actor, writer and director who was raised in Montreal and began taking acting seriously in 1997, after an acting class got him hooked. He became a familiar presence on Canadian television, playing Josh MacIntosh in the CBC series Being Erica, Peter McGregor in Wild Roses and Detective Steve Peck in Rookie Blue, with guest spots on Murdoch Mysteries and Republic of Doyle and a lead role as Nick McAllister in the supernatural show Vampire High. He eventually moved behind the camera, writing and directing short films before making his feature debut with the survival horror Backcountry, which had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. Pyewacket, an occult horror film he wrote and directed, screened at the same festival in 2017, and he directed the third season of the Netflix horror anthology Slasher in 2019.