__Abbey Bios

  Womanizer, gambler, and all-round cowboy, with an athlete's body and an easy, amiable smile. He thrives on risk, and feels most alive when taking down bad guys. His background is Customs and Immigration - he's a legend among Customs cops for single-handedly taking out six Hell's Angel meth-traffickers with nothing but pepper spray. Gray grew up in foster care, and has been on his own since he was 16. His charm has let him slide through life, but serious wreckage has built up behind him. Unpaid gambling debts, angry women and a broken marriage - as long as he stays in motion, he thinks none of it will ever catch up with him. That is, until someone he loves pays the ultimate price for his actions.


  Like so many great actors, prior to turning to film and television, Graham Abbey developed and flourished in the theatre. After appearing on stage as a child at the Stratford Festival, he returned in 1997 and spent ten seasons as a leading man playing the title roles in Macbeth, Henry V and Henry VIII. His other Stratford credits include Romeo, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Jacques in As You Like It, Berowne in Love's Labours Lost and Prince Hal in Henry IV.

He has been directed by some of this country's most celebrated talents including: Eda Holmes in The Pessimist at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, Diana Leblanc in Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Manitoba Theatre Centre and Brian Bedford in The Moliere Comedies and School for Scandal at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In June 2007, Abbey joined with F. Murray Abraham and Colm Feore to perform The Soldier's Tale with text by Kurt Vonnegut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Peter Oundjian.

A celebrated musical performer, Abbey won the 2002 Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role - Musical in Ross Petty's production of Snow White and the Magnificent Seven. The versatile actor was also nominated for a Dora Award in 2003 for Robin Hood. His television credits include The Jane Show, Heartland, Billable Hours, Til Death Do Us Part and John Woo's Once A Thief.


:: Information compiled through the official website of "The Border".