Anthony Shim
Anthony Shim is a Canadian actor and filmmaker based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in Seoul, South Korea, he moved with his family to the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam in childhood. He has had acting roles in both film and television, including in the 2013 film Evangeline and recurring supporting roles in the television series The Guard and 21 Thunder. His full-length feature debut as a director, Daughter, premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival. His second feature film, Riceboy Sleeps, premiered in the Platform Prize competition at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and was named the winner of the Platform Prize. It was included in TIFF’s 2022 Canada’s Top Ten, and won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Rogers Best Canadian Film Award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, considered the richest annual film prize in Canada. He won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 for Riceboy Sleeps. References

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21st-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Living people
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian male actors of Korean descent
Canadian writers of Asian descent
Film directors from British Columbia
Male actors from British Columbia
Male actors from Seoul
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Year of birth missing (living people)
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Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners