Keleghan to receive ACTRA honour

TORONTO - Canadian actor Peter Keleghan will receive ACTRA Toronto's highest honour - the ACTRA Award of Excellence.The award recognizes both an outstanding body of work by a performer and that performer's efforts on behalf of the acting community and Canadian culture, said the press release. Previous winners include Sarah Polley, Paul Gross, Gordon Pinsent, Sonja Smits, Wendy Crewson and Eric Peterson. "Whether lobbying on Parliament Hill, or negotiating union contracts at the bargaining table, one of the key reasons that ACTRA Toronto is such a powerful and effective advocate for performers is the exemplary involvement and union activism of...