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Mike Smith (born August 27 1972) is a Canadian actor, perhaps most famous for playing Bubbles on Trailer Park Boys.
Biography
Personal life
Smith was born in Thorburn, Nova Scotia. He earned a degree in English from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He is a hockey player, playing for the Pictou County Weeks of the Nova Scotia Midget AAA Hockey League when he was in high school. He was previously engaged to actress Nichole Hiltz.
Musical Interest
Smith showed early signs of musical talent, after learning how to play the guitar at age seven. Before becoming involved in Trailer Park Boys, he was a guitarist in the rock band Sandbox, and signed a record deal with EMI in Canada, and Nettwerk in the United States. Sandbox released two albums with EMI and Nettwerk, entitled "Bionic" and "A Murder in the Glee Club." Sandbox was nominated for a Juno Award, East Coast Music Awards, and a CASBY Award.
Smith has mixed sound for such films as The Weight of Water and Serendipity.
Introduction to acting
Smith had been a long-time friend of Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg, and met Robb Wells (Ricky) and John Paul Tremblay (Julian) while sound mixing on the original TPB feature. Smith was "messing" around on the set one day and slipped into his Cart Boy character from the Mike Clattenburg short "The Cart Boy." Clattenburg apparently realised the depth this character held, and the Cart Boy, now known as Bubbles, was written into the show. Bubbles was never intended to be a main character, but the more outrageous he behaved, the more audiences loved him. Bubbles then became one of the three main protagonists, having established that he knew Julian and Ricky from school back in the late 70s to high school in the late 80s.
Smith made a cameo appearance as Bubbles in Snow's 2002 music video Legal, but his swearing remains censored. He has appeared in character as Bubbles at several Guns N' Roses 2006 Canadian tour dates and dates in Australia and Japan in 2007. Bubbles, along with Ricky and Julian, hosted the 2006 and the 2007 East Coast Music Awards, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and Halifax, Nova Scotia respectively.
Smith has opened his own bar "Bubbles' Mansion", located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
References
- http://winsun.canoe.ca/Entertainment/Columnists/StGermain_Pat/2006/04/04/1518646.html
- YouTube - SNOW "Legal"
External links
- Mike Smith at IMDb