Biography

John Tench was born in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. and grew up in Canada, where he began working in Film and Theatre. He started his career on stage in Toronto with Ken Gass at the legendary Factory Theatre Lab and quickly moved on to study/work in New York City, London, Eng., Paris, and then throughout Continental Europe, before returning to Toronto, founding the influential Theatre Company Theatre Kathartic, performing and then touring shows internationally, including works by Sam Shepard, Dario Fo and Bertoldt Brecht. John then moved on to Vancouver, B.C. and from there down to Hollywood and Los Angeles to continue his work in Film and Television. In his many Feature Film and Television appearances he's worked with such great directors as Ang Lee, Antoine Fuqua, Zac Snyder, Arthur Hiller, Roger Christian, Chris Haddock, among many others, and he's been on numerous award winning hit shows including American Gods, Schitts Creek, Murdoch Mysteries and many more. John divers talents also include Motion Capture and Voice on Ubisoft's award winning Video Games - WatchDogs, WatchDogs Bad Blood and WatchDogs2 as the legendary character and fan favorite, T Bone Grady. Most recently he has worked on FarCry 5 and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. John has also worked with numerous Theatre Companies in North America and Europe as an Actor, Director, Writer and Producer. As well as performing he has worked behind the Camera having produced, written and directed several short films. He has been nominated for numerous awards in the Best Actor Category. He is a master of accents and dialects and has voiced a great many cartoons and foreign language films. John has written a number of Screenplays and is a published poet. He also teaches and coaches Actors and Acting throughout Canada and the U.S. currently a Professor of Film and Acting in the Diploma Program at the renowned Toronto Film School and Yorkville University. He recently returned from an Intensive - Professor in Residence - at the Beijing Film Academy and the Shanghai Theatre Academy in China. Among his other many interests are Painting, Music, his family and farm. He is a talented musician and sings as well as playing Guitar, Banjo, Piano, Harmonica, Tuba and other instruments. John is an avid outdoors-man, fisherman and canoeist. He divides his time and work between Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Canada, Los Angeles and Europe.
- IMDb mini biography by: N.C.A.

Speaks French, Spanish, and English.

Plays guitar, harmonica and won an award for Best Tuba in a Symphony Orchestra.

Has gone toe to toe with The Rock, Dolph, Segal, The Boz, Stone Cold, Jean Claude and Mickey Rooney.

Has a daughter.

Brother of the poet Riley Tench.