Darrell Faria

{{Short description|Canadian actor, director and comedian}} '''Darrell Faria''' is a Canadian actor, director and comedian.<ref name=rapper>"Rapper persona earns Mississauga native Canadian Screen Award nomination". ''Mississauga News'', March 9, 2016.</ref> He is most noted as a two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee, receiving nominations for Best Performance in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for his comedy web series ''Chai-T'',<ref>Brent Furdyk, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160615210251/http://etcanada.com/news/37268/2016-canadian-screen-awards-nominees-announced/ "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced"]. ''ET Canada'', January 19, 2016.</ref> and Best Host in a Web Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 as host of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival's livestreamed awards presentation in 2021.<ref>Brent Furdyk, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220215130202/https://etcanada.com/news/867531/2022-canadian-screen-awards-nominees-announced/ "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack"]. ''ET Canada'', February 15, 2022.</ref> A native of Mississauga, Ontario, he is a graduate of the film studies program at Ryerson University,<ref name=rapper/> and was an instructor at the Mississauga Youth Theatre.

''Chai-T'' also earned him a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Male Performance in a Web Series at the 16th Canadian Comedy Awards.<ref name=rapper/>

He has appeared in the films ''White Night'',<ref>Norman Wilner, [https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/white-night-multi-character-storytelling-nuit-blanche "White Night is a fun experiment in multi-character storytelling"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218184025/https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/white-night-multi-character-storytelling-nuit-blanche |date=2022-02-18 }}. ''Now'', September 27, 2017.</ref> ''I Put a Hit on You'' and ''Don't Talk to Irene'', and has directed the short film ''Apples and Oranges''<ref>Chris Clay, "Brothers present independent film festival". ''Mississauga News'', July 8, 2008.</ref> and episodes of ''Bit Playas'', ''True Dating Stories''<ref>[https://realscreen.com/2021/07/30/larues-true-dating-stories-renewed-acquired-in-the-u-s/ "Fuse Media acquires LaRue Ent’s “True Dating Stories” for the U.S."]. ''RealScreen'', July 30, 2021.</ref> and ''TallBoyz''.

In 2020, after their planned wedding was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Faria and his fiancée Shannon made an internet comedy video in which they went around to various spots in Toronto to look for a new venue, before deciding to have an officiant marry them on the balcony of their own condo.<ref name=saric>Tanja Saric, [https://www.blogto.com/music/2020/10/toronto-couple-elopement-music-video-wedding-cancelled/ "Toronto couple makes elopement music video after their wedding was cancelled"]. ''BlogTO'', October 27, 2020.</ref> The video was set to a self-performed cover of Beyoncé and Jay-Z's 2018 single "Apeshit".<ref name=saric/>

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