# Darrell Faria

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{{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](/source/Mississauga_News)'', March 9, 2016.</ref> He is most noted as a two-time [Canadian Screen Award](/source/Canadian_Screen_Award) nominee, receiving nominations for Best Performance in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media at the [4th Canadian Screen Awards](/source/4th_Canadian_Screen_Awards) in 2016 for his comedy web series ''[Chai-T](/source/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](/source/ET_Canada)'', January 19, 2016.</ref> and Best Host in a Web Program or Series at the [10th Canadian Screen Awards](/source/10th_Canadian_Screen_Awards) in 2022 as host of the [Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival](/source/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](/source/ET_Canada)'', February 15, 2022.</ref>
 
A native of [Mississauga](/source/Mississauga), [Ontario](/source/Ontario), he is a graduate of the film studies program at [Ryerson University](/source/Ryerson_University),<ref name=rapper/> and was an instructor at the Mississauga Youth Theatre.

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

He has appeared in the films ''[White Night](/source/White_Night_(2017_film))'',<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](/source/Now_(newspaper))'', September 27, 2017.</ref> ''[I Put a Hit on You](/source/I_Put_a_Hit_on_You)'' and ''[Don't Talk to Irene](/source/Don't_Talk_to_Irene)'', and has directed the short film ''Apples and Oranges''<ref>Chris Clay, "Brothers present independent film festival". ''[Mississauga News](/source/Mississauga_News)'', July 8, 2008.</ref> and episodes of ''[Bit Playas](/source/Bit_Playas)'', ''[True Dating Stories](/source/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](/source/RealScreen)'', July 30, 2021.</ref> and ''[TallBoyz](/source/TallBoyz)''.

In 2020, after their planned wedding was cancelled due to the [COVID-19 pandemic in Canada](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Beyonc%C3%A9) and [Jay-Z](/source/Jay-Z)'s 2018 single "[Apeshit](/source/Apeshit)".<ref name=saric/>

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:21st-century Canadian comedians
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Category:Canadian male comedians
Category:Canadian sketch comedians
Category:Canadian male film actors
Category:Canadian male television actors
Category:Canadian male web series actors
Category:Canadian television directors
Category:Film directors from Ontario
Category:Male actors from Mississauga
Category:Toronto Metropolitan University alumni
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Comedians from Ontario
Category:Canadian Screen Award winning directors

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