Ty Olsson
Biography
Ty Olsson is a Canadian actor who grew up in Ottawa after being born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and trained in drama, dance and music at Canterbury High School before studying acting at Studio 58. Much of his work has been in supporting and character parts on film and television, and he is also a voice actor, heard as Herry in Class of the Titans and Kyle in Being Ian. He voiced Ord in Dragon Tales from 1999 to 2005 and Frank West in the video game Dead Rising 4. His credits include Battlestar Galactica, Christmas Caper in 2007 and Defying Gravity as Rollie Crane, and he starred as Mark Bingham in the A&E film Flight 93. He played the vampire Benny on Supernatural from 2013 to 2019.
52years old
Turns 53 on January 28in 108 days
- Born Halifax
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Tyler Victor Olsson (birth name)Also credited as Tyler Olsson and Ty Victor Olsson
Movie Career
- Films
- 33
- Career span
- 25 years1999 to 2024
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A role that slipped away
Ty Olsson was the first actor to play Deputy Andy on Eureka, but after two appearances Kavan Smith took over the part.
Early training
Olsson went to Canterbury High School, an arts school in Ottawa, and focused there on drama, dance and music. He went on to study acting at Studio 58.
Ty Olsson movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Kristoffer Tabori directed three of these films, Tony Giglio two. Terry Chen appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Terry Chen's page
Garry Chalk's page
Brian Markinson's page
Michael Adamthwaite's page
Natassia Malthe's page
Toby Levins's page
All films by Kristoffer Tabori
Tony GiglioDirector, 2 films, 2005 to 2017
All films by Tony Giglio
Also three films together2 more actors
- Benita HaBlack River (2001), Valentine (2001) and Up, Up, and Away (2000)
- Timothy WebberWar for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Married Life (2007) and Missing in America (2005)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Ty Olsson's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$2.3 billion
15 of the 33 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 33 films: 15 worldwide figure; 12 never in cinemas; 6 figure not found.
- 15Worldwide figure
- 12Never in cinemas
- 6Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$712M31.2% of the total
- 2$491M21.5% of the total
- 3$482M21.1% of the total
- 4$408M17.8% of the total
- 5$57M2.5% of the total
- 6$51M2.2% of the total
- 7$47M2.0% of the total
- 8$16M0.7% of the total
$22.1 millionfrom the other 7 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total