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David Elliott ~ Actor
In Street Legal, he sometimes wears a strategically-placed
sheet. On the block at the Multiple Sclerosis Society's third annual Bachelor
Classic Auction earlier this winter, he affected a lopsided grin. And in public,
people assume he's tall enough and brawny enough to be a cop. But David Elliott
doesn't like to throw his good looks around. In fact, he is flat out tired
of discussing them, auction or no. He had plenty of time to wear out the subject
playing the male stripper in B-Movie: The Play for nearly two years
in Toronto, and on tour in Vancouver, Edmonton, and the Edinburgh Festival
in Scotland. Being a hunk is only a temporary forte. After all, fresh out
of Ryerson's Theatre School in 1983, the then 23-year-old Elliott was accepted
as an apprentice at the Stratford Festival and honored with The Jean Chalmers
Award for Most Promising Actor. When Street Legal's fourth season wrapped
in January, Elliott began to crave a villainous part. "You like to play opposite
type," he says, "to prove you have range." What he also likes to do is stay
home and cook or watch mini-festivals of three and four videos at a time.
And he visits his old pals in Milton, Ont., where he was born, because "those
guys, they keep you honest," no matter how many interviewers concentrate on
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