Jeremy Akerman on AllMovie

Jeremy Akerman traveled one of the most unusual roads into show business in memory. Born in Alvechurch, England, he moved to Canada and began his professional life not on-stage or in front of movie cameras, but in politics, as a leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. Akerman commenced film roles in the early '90s with a series of Canadian and U.S. productions. These included: Pit Pony (1997), The Christmas Shoes (2002), The Riverman (2004), and Just Buried (2007).