Tom Scholte

Tom Scholte is a Canadian actor whose screen and stage work has drawn award attention in his home country. His performance in Last Wedding earned a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 and a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nod for Best Actor in a Canadian Film in 2001. He later received another Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination in that category for The Dick Knost Show in 2013. His film credits include Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure (1998), and he has appeared on television in The X-Files and Da Vinci's Inquest. Scholte cofounded Neworld Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has received two Jessie Richardson Award nominations for stage performances. He teaches in the theater and film department at the University of British Columbia, where his research links theater studies with cybernetics. In 2021 he took on the vice presidency of the American Society for Cybernetics, and he cohosted its 2019 conference, Acting Cybernetically.