Biography

Bert is an actor from Toronto, Canada who has appeared in numerous Canadian & US national commercials. Bert has also been featured in recurring supporting or lead roles in TV Shows such as Finding Her Edge (Netflix, 2026) ,We Three Queens (outTV, 2023-2024), Holidazed (Hallmark, 2024) as well in supporting roles in feature films such as A Merry Little Ex-Mas (Netflix, 2025) My Husband's Worst Mistake (Lifetime, 2023), The Most Colorful Time Of The Year (Hallmark, 2022).

Bertrand (Bert) Cardozo was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The son of two Telecom entrepreneurs, Martine and Patrick Cardozo, Bert is the oldest of three siblings. A gifted early learner, Bert was reading by 18 months of age under the guidance of his paternal grandmother, educator and author Jacqueline Turian Cardozo. On weekends, he went to the video store and rented movies to watch with his maternal grandmother Josette Deas which really fostered his passion for movies. Subsequently, at the age of 12, Bert wrote, directed and edited his first short film using his siblings and cousins as the actors. He had to make the tough decision at the time to not star in the short as he wanted to ensure that his vision materialized.

At the age of 14, Bert's parents took the decision to send him to private boarding school in Boca Raton, Florida. It is there, at Saint-Andrew's School, that Bert rediscovered his passion for the performing arts when he took Stagecraft as his required arts elective. The course was taught by Ms. Teresa Vignau who encouraged Bert to be a stage manager for 6 plays over the course of 3 semesters. As much as Bert wanted to audition for these plays and part of the cast instead of the crew, he again had to make the difficult choice of fulfilling his other obligations as a tri-athlete.

With his newly sparked passion, on a whim, Bert was eager to pursue acting in college. However, like any concerned parent, his father had other ambitions and strongly believed that the entertainment industry was filled with too much uncertainty. Ideally, that Bert would have a degree to fall back on. Bert reluctantly applied and got accepted to the Computer Science program at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. After immigrating to Toronto in 2001, Bert left Computer Science behind and pursued Economics instead. Realizing that pursuing a career working a 9 to 5 was not his calling, Bert dropped out of school in 2006 and got accepted at the Toronto Film School where he graduated in 2008.

Bert has been acting professionally since 2012 and is represented by Seta James (as his agent and manager) of The Characters Talent Agency, one of the biggest talent agencies in Canada.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bert Cardozo