Listowel's Jared Keeso has come away with some hardware from Sunday’s Canadian Screen Awards.
Keeso won the "Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role" for his work on the English adaptation of 19-2.
The Bravo-produced television show, which follows the fictional lives of officers with the Montreal Police force, was also nominated for "Best Drama."
During his acceptance speech, which was broadcast live on CBC, the actor mentioned his family and his hometown.
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"I'd to thank my brother Alan, a Canadian solider attending Oxford Univserity, my sister Abigail who's a nurse at Sick Kids Hospital here in Toronto," Keeso began, "My mom Ann and my dad Richard, who are the fifth generation of our family business that has been operating in our hometown since 1872. I'm so proud of you guys and I'm not a damn thing without you. I want to say hello to all the good folks in Listowel, Ontario. Especially my teachers growing up at Listowel Central Public School and Listowel District Secondary School."
Keeso gained attention for his role as Don Cherry in his CBC biographical mini-series, and internet series "Letterkenney Problems". His performance as ‘Grapes’ in "Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story" won him a Gemini award.
The Canadian Screen Awards was created from a merger between the Gemini and Genie awards.
--With files from Ryan Brandt--
