Colin Kirton
Colin Kirton is a Malaysian stage and TV actor from Kuantan, Pahang. He also works as a director, trainer, musician, singer, choir director, host and voice actor. He was nominated for Best Vocal Performance (Solo) at the 2007 BOH Cameronian Arts Awards for Broken Bridges – The Musical, and won Best Group Performance (Theatre) in 2009 for Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a Footstool Players production that he created, produced and directed.
On TV, he’s known for Edmund Soo in Ghost (Season 2, 2009), Colonel Williams in Age of Glory 2 (2010) and Mr Smith in Mining Magnate (2012–2013). In 2001 he founded Footstool Players, a Christian theatre company that tours Malaysia; he remains its artistic director. He also teaches about the arts and Christian spirituality.
Kirton trained at Rosebud School of the Arts and Rosebud Theatre in Canada. He has Scottish, Chinese (Nyonya) and Burmese ancestry. His father is Eric Kirton and his mother Tan Cheng Kim. His paternal great-grandfather, William Waddell, helped build the West Highland Railway and the Glenfinnan Viaduct in Scotland, which is famous from the Harry Potter films.
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