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Michael Kennedy (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor and cinematographer raised in Kensington, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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Michael Kennedy
Born	(1954-08-16) August 16, 1954 (age 68) Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Occupation	Director, screenwriter, actor, cinematographer,
Spouse	Carrie Gleason ​ (m. 1982)​

Career

Michael Kennedy is an award-winning, versatile filmmaker with a reputation for creating stylish work that addresses social issues while achieving critical and commercial success. He has directed 20 feature-length films/TV movies and over 230 prime-time drama and comedy television episodes including the entire first season of the ground-breaking sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie that used humour to attack racism against Muslims in the post-911 world.

Besides the pilot of Little Mosque, he also directed the first episodes filmed and/or aired of Delmer and Marta, My Life and a Movie, North/South, The Good Germany, Mental Block, Listen Missy, Screech Owls, P.R., Taking the Falls, and Jets. He was also one of the directors of the acclaimed comedy series The Kids in the Hall, and directed 14 episodes of Made in Canada.

Kennedy has directed feature films in many countries: Jets was filmed in Germany and the US, Broken Lullaby in Budapest, One Man Out in Mexico, Caribe in Belize, Calculated Risk in Germany, and many others in Canada. He also wrote the screenplays for three of the feature films he directed.

Kennedy lives with his wife, Carrie, and their three children in a suburb of Toronto, Canada, but they try to spend their summers at their cottage on Prince Edward Island, his home province.

Credits

Director

• Write Place Write Time (2023)
• Six Degrees of Santa (2022)
• Lease On Love (2022)
• Zarqa, Director Mentor only (2022)
• My Favourite Christmas Melody (2021)
• Tale of Two Hearts, Good Witch (2018)
• #Roxy (2018)
• Good Witch (2 episodes, 2017)
• Heaven Must Be Boring! (pilot, 2014)
• Delmer and Marta (pilot and entire first season, 2014–15)
• Odd Squad (2 episodes, 2014)
• Annedroids (5 episodes, 2014)
• Greenpeace Greenwash Campaign (3 web shorts, 2013)
• Walter! (52 short films, 2011 and 2013)
• What's Up Warthogs! (14 episodes, 2011–2012)
• That's So Weird! (7 episodes, 2011–2012)
• Really Me (2 episodes, 2012)
• She's the Mayor (2 episodes, 2011)
• Little Mosque on the Prairie (37 episodes, 2007–2011)
• Pure Pwnage (2 episodes, 2010)
• The Good Company (1 episode, 2010)
• Lost and Found (2009)
• The Smart Woman Survival Guide (3 episodes, 2007)
• This Space for Rent (2 episodes, 2007)
• North/South (5 episodes, 2006)
• G-Spot (6 episodes, 2006)
• Metropia (10 episodes, 2005–2006)
• Mental Block (9 episodes, 2003–2004)
• Made in Canada (13 episodes, 1999–2003)
• Emily of New Moon (6 episodes, 1998–2002)
• Blackfly (7 episodes, 2001–2002)
• Rideau Hall (2 episodes, 2002)
• Murder Among Friends (2001) (TV)
• Screech Owls (2 episodes, 2001)
• P.R. (7 episodes, 2000–2001)
• Wind at My Back (2 episodes, 2000)
• The City (1 episode, 2000)
• Little Men (1 episode, 1999)
• The Hoop Life (1999) TV series (unknown episodes)
• So Weird (2 episodes, 1999)
• JETS - Leben am Limit (1999) (TV)
• Kalkuliertes Risiko (1997) (TV)
• Joe's Wedding (1996)
• Robin of Locksley (1996) (TV)
• Hostile Force (1996) (TV)
• Hard Evidence (1995)
• The Possession of Michael D. (1995) (TV)
• Taking the Falls (2 episodes, 1995)
• Broken Lullaby (1994) (TV)
• Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
• Talons of the Eagle (1992)
• The Swordsman (1992)
• The Kids in the Hall (9 episodes, 1991–1992)
• One Man Out (1989)
• Caribe (1987)
• Jim and Muggins Tour Toronto

Writer

• JETS - Leben am Limit (1 episode, 1999)
• The Swordsman (1992)
• One Man Out (1989)
• Degrassi Junior High (1 episode, 1988)
• Caribe (1987) (uncredited)

Actor

• These Foolish Things (1977) as Wilson
• Trailer Park Boys - Reggie (2017–2018)

Cinematographer

• These Foolish Things (1977)

Awards/Nominations

Year	Award	Category	Production	Result
1996	Directors Guild of America Award	Best Director, Youth Programs	Robin of Locksley	Nominated
2002	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Best Director, TV, Drama	Emily of New Moon	Nominated
2002	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Best Director, TV, Comedy	Made In Canada	Winner
2003	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Best Director, TV, Comedy	Made In Canada	Winner
2007	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Best Achievement, TV, Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2007	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Best Achievement, TV, Drama	North/South	Nominated
2008	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Best Achievement, TV, Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2009	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Best Achievement, TV, Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2010	Directors Guild of Canada Award	Team Award, TV, Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2000	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Series	Made In Canada	Winner
2001	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Series	Made In Canada	Nominated
2002	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Series	Blackfly	Nominated
2002	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Series	Made In Canada	Winner
2003	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Series	Made In Canada	Winner
2004	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Comedy	Mental Block	Nominated
2005	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Comedy	Listen Missie	Nominated
2007	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Show or Special	This Space For Rent	Nominated
2007	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2008	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, TV Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2019	Canadian Comedy Award	Best Director, Feature Film	#Roxy	Nominated
2003	Gemini Award	Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy	Made In Canada	Nominated
2007	Gemini Award	Canada Award	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Winner (Team)
2007	Gemini Award	Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2010	Gemini Award	Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy	Little Mosque on the Prairie	Nominated
2020	Canadian Screen Award	Best Director, TV Episodic, Comedy	#Roxy	Nominated
1992	Canadian Music Video Award	Best Comedy Video	Terriers	Winner

Kennedy has received many awards including: two Directors Guild of Canada Awards (from eight nominations), a Directors Guild of America Award nomination, three wins from eleven nominations for Best Director at the Canadian Comedy Awards, three Best Director Gemini nominations, and Best Director at the Canadian Music Video Awards.

External links

• Michael Kennedy at IMDb
• Directors Guild of Canada
• New York Times^{[dead link]}

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