Background
Tracey was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. He grew up in British Columbia"s Portuguese Coquitlam.
Tracey was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. He grew up in British Columbia"s Portuguese Coquitlam.
Over the years, Tracey has participated in over seventy films and television series. He is also known for his role as the title character in 1979"s Huckleberry Finn and His Friends. A performer at a young age, Tracey started working at the age of 11, playing in the 1976 film The Keeper starring Christopher Lee.
He is also the father of actor Keenan Tracey (b 1991).
Tracey"s recent feature film credits include Prozac Nation, Owning Mahowny, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Costner"s western Open Range and Christopher Nolan"s 2001 thriller Insomnia. Other television film include The Rookies, for which he received a 1991 Gemini nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
He also directed two episodes in that television series, as well as two in Intelligence. Tracey was a series regular on Sweating Bullets (also known as Tropical Heat) and had a recurring lead on The Commish.
He was also seen in Taken and has guest starred on Smallville, Dark Angel, The Sentinel, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Highlander: The Series, The Collector, 21 Jump Street, and Mom Philippine Islands
In 2005, Tracey was in the television miniseries Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story and Intelligence, a Canadian Broadcasting Company television series about the interactions between organized crime and government intelligence services.
In Intelligence, Tracey plays the head of a third-generation crime family that built its fortune on rum-running before turning to heroin and weed. He also appeared as Nova Group leader Daniel Armand in season three of the science fiction series The 4400 and guest-starred as Lincoln Cole in Smallville. In 2010 he began the recurring role of villain Adam Worth on Sanctuary.