Joe Cobden

Joe Cobden is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who began performing at ten as a street vaudevillian and later studied theater performance at Concordia University in Montreal. He played triplets in the television comedy Living in Your Car, earning a Gemini Award nomination in 2011, and took the lead in the film Peepers (2010), which brought him a Canadian Comedy Award nomination. He voiced more than 60 characters as the only voice performer in the animated series Knuckleheads, a role that made him a Canadian Screen Award nominee in 2017. His directing work includes shorts for Sesame Street and music videos, and his choreographic films have won awards. He was showrunner of the sketch comedy show Toothpix for Quibi, wrote and starred in four musicals with the musician Socalled, and earned a 2015 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for his lead role in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People.