Life and career

Runyan was born in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. His father is an environmental science professor at the University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

, and his mother is a poet. As a teen, Runyan studied at Emily Carr College of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design) at the same time as he was getting into acting.

Runyan was nominated for a Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for his work in Various Positions

Various Positions (film)

Various Positions is a film by Vancouver, BC, lawyer and filmmaker Ori Kowarsky, starring Carly Pope and Tygh Runyan. Various Positions won the 2002 Prix de Montréal at the Montreal World Film Festival...

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As a musician, Runyan has been a member of The Beans and The Awkward Stage

The Awkward Stage

The Awkward Stage is a Canadian indie pop band, based in Vancouver, British Columbia and fronted by singer-songwriter Shane Nelken. The band's supporting lineup currently consists of Tygh Runyan on lead guitar, Tony Koelwyn on drums and Chris Mitchell on trumpet and keyboards.Nelken, who works as a...

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Films

• Judgement Day: The John List Story (1993)
• Once in a Blue Moon (1995)
• Kitchen Party
  Kitchen Party (film)
  Kitchen Party is a 1997 film written and directed by Gary Burns . The movie cast a number of then-unknown young Canadian actors, including Scott Speedman, Laura Harris, and Tygh Runyan, and was released on September 8, 1997 at the Toronto Film Festival.- Plot summary :In the bored suburban...
  
  (1997)
• Disturbing Behavior
  Disturbing Behavior
  Disturbing Behavior is a 1998 thriller science fiction film starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, and Nick Stahl. The film was released on July 24, 1998. The plot follows a group of high school outcasts who are horrified by their "Blue Ribbon" classmates...
  
  (1998)
• Our Guys: Outrage in Glen Ridge (1999)
• Touched (1999)
• AntiTrust (2001)
• 15 Minutes
  15 Minutes
  15 Minutes is a 2001 film starring Robert De Niro , Edward Burns and Karel Roden. It is about a homicide detective and a fire marshal who must stop a couple of Eastern European murderers from videotaping their killing and becoming sensationalized by the media. Melina Kanakaredes and Kelsey Grammer,...
  
  (2001)
• K-19: The Widowmaker
  K-19: The Widowmaker
  K-19: The Widowmaker is a movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine of the same name. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow...
  
  (2002)
• Family Sins (2004)
• Snakes on a Plane
  Snakes on a Plane
  Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American horror-action-thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006 in North America...
  
  (2006)
• Holiday Wishes (2006)
• Battlestar Galactica
  Battlestar Galactica
  Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The franchise began with the Battlestar Galactica TV series in 1978, and was followed by a brief sequel TV series in 1980, a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games...
  
  (2006–2007) TV series
• Boot Camp
  Boot Camp (film)
  Boot Camp is a 2007 psychological suspense thriller feature film written by Agatha Dominik and John Cox and directed by Christian Duguay.The film's working title was Straight Edge and was shot in Fiji as the first film to utilize the southwest Pacific Ocean island country's five-year-old incentive...
  
  (2007)
• Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (2008)
• SGU Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe
  Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way...
  
  (2009–2010) TV series
• Road to Nowhere
  Road to Nowhere (film)
  Road to Nowhere is a 2010 American romance thriller independent film directed by Monte Hellman, written by Steven Gaydos, and starring Cliff De Young, Waylon Payne, Shannyn Sossamon, Tygh Runyan, and Dominique Swain. It is Hellman's first feature film in 21 years.Road to Nowhere was shot in western...
  
  (2010)

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