Ronald Pederson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Ronald "Ron" Pederson (born January 8, 1978) is an award winning Canadian actor, improviser and theatre director who has performed extensively throughout Canada and in the United States. He has worked with most of Canada’s major theatres including The Stratford Festival, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, The Arts Club, The Vancouver Playhouse, The Young Centre, The Canadian Stage Company, The Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille and The SummerWorks Festival.Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Pederson began working professionally at the Citadel Theatre and The Phoenix Theatre and with award-winning playwright Stewart Lemoine’s Teatro La Quindicina and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival at a very young age. In 1995, at the invitation of Dana Andersen, Pederson joined the cast of the live improvised Soap Opera Die-Nasty. Over the next eight years Ron performed weekly on the Soap, worked with notable guest stars Mark McKinney, Mike Myers and Joe Flaherty, and completed the Die-Nasty Annual 53-Hour Soap-A-Thon. In 2002 Pederson won a Sterling Award for his portrayal of Ray Dooley in Martin McDonagh’s play The Beauty Queen of Leenane. He is an eight time Sterling Award nominee.Pederson was discovered in Hollywood while improvising at The Second City with Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara and Fred Willard in Joe Flaherty’s Improvised Show The Soap Also Rises in March, 2002. That year he turned down an invitation to join the Toronto Second City Main Stage Cast to begin work on FOX’s sketch comedy television series MADtv that September. He would perform with them for three seasons and was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Television Performance for his work on MADtv: Season 10. Following his departure from MADtv Pederson went on to write and perform original sketches on CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for one season before deciding to return to Canada and to dedicate himself to the stage.He moved to Toronto in 2007 where he played Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors at The Canadian Stage Company and has since worked at Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Summerworks Festival and The Toronto Fringe Festival. Back in Edmonton he played Quasimodo in Catalyst Theatre’s Hunchback, which also played in Vancouver, and James in the world-premiere of the Sterling Award winning play Extinction Song written and directed by Ron Jenkins, which also played in Toronto (Summerworks Spotlight Award) and in Halifax (Merritt Award Nomination). In Vancouver his performance of Carmen Ghia in The Producers at the Arts Club earned him a Jessie Richardson Award Nomination. He joined the Acting Company of the Stratford Festival in 2013 playing Launcelot Gobo in The Merchant of Venice.Pederson’s recent film and television credits include providing the voice of the Golly Gee Kid in the YTV cartoon SIDEKICK, guest starring on Colin Mochrie's sitcom, She's the Mayor, CBC’s InSecurity and Degrassi:
Full Name
Ronald Pederson
Net Worth
$20 Million
Date Of Birth
January 8, 1978
Place Of Birth
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Occupation
Actor, comedian
Profession
Actor
Nicknames
Ron Pederson, Pederson, Ron
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Trademark
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Thick-black glasses
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Quote
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[Of his time on TV]: My soul was almost sold. I was very dissatisfied there.
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I've never had a 10-year plan. I guess I'd still like to be working in theatre, producing plays with my company and acting and, I don't know, maybe make some money?
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Cure
2015/VI
Short completed
Arthur
Murdoch Mysteries
2014
TV Series
Lewis Hoffat
Vampire Dog
2012
Frank
Degrassi: The Next Generation
2012
TV Series
Contest Announcer
InSecurity
2011
TV Series
Randy
Sidekick
2010
TV Series
Golly Gee Kid
MADtv
2002-2008
TV Series
Various / Special Appearance / Special Apperance
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2006
TV Series
Clay Aiken
Barron William Trump
Woody Allen
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Classroom
2006
TV Series short
Doctor Whitmore
Intern Academy
2004
Charlie
Turnbuckle
2003
Alan Burnskey
Purple Gas
2003
Spazz Derek
Mentors
2002
TV Series
The Brain
Spider-Man: Attack of the Octopus
2002
Video short
After Shock
1996
Short
Pizza Boy
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Casting Room
2013
TV Series
Himself
The 12th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards
2011
TV Special
Himself - as Impromptu Splendor
The 11th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards
2010
TV Special
Himself
The Fringe: Acting Up
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The 6th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards
2005
TV Special
Himself - Nominee (Best Male TV Performance)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2005
Canadian Comedy Award
Canadian Comedy Awards
Television - Pretty Funny Male Performance
MADtv (1995)
Known for movies
MADtv (2002-2008) as Various / Special Appearance / Special Apperance
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2006) as Clay Aiken / Barron William Trump / Gordon Burger