ACTRA Toronto has announced the nominees for the Outstanding Performance Voice Awards and this year’s recipient of the ACTRA Toronto Stunt Award.
Chosen by a jury comprised of past award recipients, Cotton Mather, who has been a stunt performer, driver, double and coordinator since the 1980s, is being honoured with the 2025 Stunt Award. Mather’s credits include feature films like Hollywoodland, Nightmare Alley, Shazam!, Suicide Squad, True Lies, and The Incredible Hulk, alongside TV series including Departure and Nikita.
“Cotton Mather is an innovative force from the Canadian Stunt community. We are delighted to honour his contributions and reveal the skilled performance artistry behind the wheels of some of the most iconic scenes from the North American film canon,” said ACTRA Toronto President Kate Ziegler, in an announcement.
The Performance Voice nominees are led by Netflix animated series, Unicorn Academy, which generated five nominations.
Candidates for ACTRA Toronto’s juried Outstanding Performance awards are submitted for consideration by ACTRA Toronto members. This year marks the first time an award will be presented to a youth performer in the Performance Voice categories.
Find the full list of nominees here:
Outstanding Performance – Gender Non-Conforming or Female Voice:
Genevieve Adam as Anne in Deceitful Above All Things (Favour The Brave Collective and Thought For Food Productions)
Sara Garcia as Sophia Mendoza in Unicorn Academy, “The Vision Pool” (Spin Master Entertainment)
Gabbi Kosmidis as Isabel Armstrong in Unicorn Academy, “Under the Fairy Moon” (Spin Master Entertainment)
Sadie Laflamme-Snow as Ava Banji in Unicorn Academy, “Star Showers” (Spin Master Entertainment)
Kari Wong as Valentina Furi in Unicorn Academy, “Mounting Pressure” (Spin Master Entertainment)
Outstanding Performance – Gender Non-Conforming or Male Voice:
Julius Cho as Chase in Total Drama Island, “Paddle Field Earth” (Fresh TV Inc.)
Joshua Graham as Elliot in Open Season: Call of Nature, “Playing Dead” (9 Story Media Group, Brown Bag Films)
Deven Mack as Sonic the Hedgehog in Sonic Prime, “From the Top” (WildBrain and SEGA)
Kolton Stewart as Rory Carmichael in Unicorn Academy, “The Wrong Crowd” (Spin Master Entertainment)
Jeff Teravainen, Narrator in Secrets in the Ice, “Antarctic Island Mysteries” (Shark Teeth Films)
Outstanding Performance – Youth Voice:
Skywalker Hughes as Sonia Manzano in Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, “I am Sonia Manzano” (9 Story Media Group, Brown Bag Films)
Liam McKenna as Jack The Rabbit in Sago Mini Friends, “Prize Bowtie” (Spin Master Entertainment, Brown Bag Films)
Logan Nicholson as Caillou in Caillou, “Caillou Two Step” (WildBrain)
Grace Nicolaou-Wood as Apple in Let’s Go, Bananas!, “Iddy Biddy Road Trippy” (9 Story Media Group, Brown Bag Films)
Nylan Parthipan as Tidbit in Vida the Vet, “Tidbit’s Achy Ankles” (Spin Master Entertainment)
The 23rd ACTRA Awards in Toronto will take place during an evening ceremony on Thursday, May 8 at Koerner Hall at the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning.
