Career
He also played the lead role of Detective William Murdoch in a three-episode mini-series, The Murdoch Mysteries, in its initial run on Canadian television, with two episodes shown in 2004 and a third in 2005. Outerbridge was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, the son of a lawyer and the youngest of five siblings. After high school Outerbridge enrolled at the University of Victoria to study acting.
Afterwards he toured Canada for four years with the theatre group Way Office Broadway.
In 1997 and 2002 he was nominated in the Canadian Genie Awards as the best actor in the films Kissed and Marine Life, respectively. Together they have twins, Samuel and Thomas (born 2004).
Outerbridge had a recurring role in the second season of Orphan Black, portraying the character Henrik "Hank" Johanssen, a Prolethean religious leader who is against the scientific processes that created the clones.