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Yank Azman (born October 19, 1947) is a Canadian television and movie actor.
[edit] Early lifeBorn in a displaced persons camp in Bad Wörishofen, Germany to Cesia and Kuba Zajfman[1] Holocaust survivors from Chmielnik, Poland, Yank and his family emigrated to Canada in 1948 and settled in Toronto where he attended Harbord Collegiate Institute, William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute and later the Ontario College of Art[2] and the University of Toronto. [edit] CareerAlthough his first stage appearance was at age six [3], his professional acting career began with the CBC Television series Toby in 1969. By the 1970s he was working in improvisational and children's theatre with Gilda Radner[4] and in 1974 was cast as one of an ensemble (which included Valri Bromfield and Jayne Eastwood) to star on the CTV comedy series Funny Farm[5]. During the 1970s he appeared on stage at: Factory Theatre's Hurray for Johnny Canuck[6] with Maury Chaykin and Jim Henshaw; Theatre Passe Muraille in Bethune; and Theatre New Brunswick as Brighella in Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters[7] among others. Since then he has worked steadily in film and television[8] with such roles as Tom Shaughnessy on My Life as A Dog and frequent guest appearances on such shows as Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Border. [edit] Second careerInspired by working with Painters Eleven artist Harold Town on a Canadian Centennial school project[9] he began a lifelong interest in art and antiques. In 1979, he started supplying antiques as props[10] for the movies and to retail stores such as Polo Ralph Lauren[11] and then opened a shop at the Harbourfront Antique Market[12]. He has made numerous guest appearances as an antiques expert[13] on such television shows as Room Service with Sarah Richardson on HGTV [14], Breakfast Television on Citytv and hosted a television pilot called Flea Market Millionaire[15] for the Discovery Channel. He has also lectured on antiques at the CITT (Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology) at Ryerson University[16] and on Material Culture at the Faculty of Liberal Studies at Ontario College of Art & Design. [edit] Personal lifeAzman is married to Canadian artist & antique dealer Pulver Zajfman[17] and lives in Toronto and Miami Beach. He is a member of Mensa International[18] and has a mild form of dyscalculia. [edit] References
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