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Tom Scholte is a Canadian actor and academic. He is most noted for his performances in the film Last Wedding, for which he was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002 and a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2001, and The Dick Knost Show, for which he received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2013.

He has also appeared in the films Live Bait, Goldrush: A Real Life Alaskan Adventure, No More Monkeys Jumpin' on the Bed, Lunch with Charles, Moving Malcolm, See Grace Fly, Fathers & Sons, Sisters & Brothers and Kingsway, and the television series The X-Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, and Cold Squad.

He was a cofounder of the Neworld Theatre Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, is a two-time Jessie Richardson Award nominee for his stage performances, and is a professor in the department of theatre and film at the University of British Columbia.

Scholte's academic work is in the intersection of theatre studies and cybernetics. In 2021, Scholte became Vice-President of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) Scholte is a presenter on the 'Systems and Cybernetics' podcast of the New Books Network.

Contributions to cybernetics

Scholte's contributions to cybernetics have focused on the role of the creative arts with cybernetics and developing cybernetics' critical possibilities.

Scholte co-hosted the 2019 ASC conference 'Acting Cybernetically'.

Personal life

He married actress Frida Betrani in 2004.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

1. ^ Lynn Mitges, "Students acting like they should; Program at UBC gives them the tools to take into the real world". The Province, January 10, 2008.
2. Michael Posner, "Atanarjuat, War Bride lead Genie list". The Globe and Mail, December 13, 2001.
3. ^ Katherine Monk, "Much more to the year in film than Harry Potter and hobbits". Vancouver Sun, January 31, 2002.
4. ^ "And the 2014 VFCC nominees are...". Vancouver Film Critics Circle, December 22, 2013.
5. "Neworld Theatre". Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, October 26, 2020.
6. "ASC Executive Board - American Society for Cybernetics".
7. "NBN Home".
8. Scholte, T. (2020). A proposal for the role of the arts in a new phase of second-order cybernetics. Kybernetes, 49(8), 2153-2170. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-03-2019-0172
9. Scholte, T., & Sweeting, B. (2022). Possibilities for a critical cybernetics. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2891
10. Scholte, T. (2020). You’re a cybernetician. Act like one! A commentary upon the 2019 conference of the American Society for Cybernetics. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 27(2), 9-15. https://www.chkjournal.com/node/360
11. Malcolm Parry, "Ode to the Travelall, the original SUV". Vancouver Sun, July 31, 2004.
12. Past Nominees & Winners 1999 at www.leoawards.com
13. Past Nominees & Winners 2000 at www.leoawards.com
14. Past Nominees & Winners 2001 at www.leoawards.com
15. "And the Gemini winners are…" at playbackonline.ca
16. "Who will take home the hardware?" at playbackonline.ca
17. Past Nominees & Winners 2002 at www.leoawards.com
18. Past Nominees & Winners 2004 at www.leoawards.com
19. Past Nominees & Winners 2011 at www.leoawards.com
20. Past Nominees & Winners 2012 at www.leoawards.com

External links

• Tom Scholte at IMDb

• 20th-century Canadian male actors
• 21st-century Canadian male actors
• Canadian male film actors
• Canadian male television actors
• Canadian male stage actors
• Cyberneticists
• Male actors from Vancouver
• Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
• Living people