Torrance Coombs

Torrance Coombs is a Canadian actor who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia and got an early taste of performing as a boy, joining the school choir and then playing Rum Tum Tugger in the musical Cats. He kept doing theater through high school, studied acting at the University of British Columbia, and has appeared at Vancouver's Bard on the Beach festival and in A Little Night Music. His first television lead was John Doe in the 2008 CBC comedy jPod, with later parts in Battlestar Galactica, Heartland and Endgame. He is likely best known for Thomas Culpeper in The Tudors and Sebastian de Poitiers in Reign, which brought a 2014 Monte-Carlo Television Festival nomination for outstanding actor in a drama series. He also had a recurring role in The Originals and a lead in Still Star-Crossed, and he starred in the 2012 thriller Liars All.