Tyler Labine Canadian Actor Born 1978 in Brampton

Early life

Tyler Labine is a Canadian actor, born on 29 April 1978 in Brampton. He grew up in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, and attended Maple Ridge Secondary School. He is 183 centimetres tall.

Career

Labine's earliest credit on record is The X-Files, the series that began airing in 1993. His teenage years brought further television work, including a role as Jimmy Mortimor Farrell on the YTV series Breaker High from 1997 to 1998, and a role in the 1996 film Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

Through the 2000s he worked steadily in both film and television. Early in the decade he appeared in Trixie and Mr. Rice's Secret (both 2000) and Antitrust (2001), followed by My Boss's Daughter (2003). He played Dave Groves in the series Invasion in 2005, and in 2006 took the part of Briggs Lowry in the war film Flyboys. In the series Reaper, which began in 2007, he played Bert "Sock" Wysocki. He also had a role in the 2008 film Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

The 2010s were the busiest stretch of his career. He played Dale in the comedy-horror film Tucker & Dale vs. Evil in 2010, and that year he also took the lead in the Fox comedy Sons of Tucson, which was cancelled after four episodes had aired, with the remaining nine shown that summer. In 2011 he was among the cast of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a film recorded with a worldwide box office of $482 million, and he co-starred as Larry Munsch in the CBS comedy Mad Love. In 2012 he joined the NBC comedy Animal Practice, which premiered that September. Later work included the Hulu series Deadbeat, which began in 2014, and a part as Sherlock Hobbs in the second season of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency in 2017. His credits from the same years also include Someone Marry Barry (2014), The Boss (2016), Super Troopers 2 (2018) and Escape Room (2019).

From 2018 to 2023 he was part of the main cast of the NBC medical drama New Amsterdam, playing Dr. Iggy Frome, the head of psychiatry. His most recent listed credit is All Night Wrong, dated 2026.

In total, his filmography on record covers 21 films and 9 television series between 1993 and 2026. Comedy is the genre that recurs most often among those titles, followed by drama and science fiction. The actress Sarah Chalke appears alongside him in two of the listed productions, one of which is Mad Love.

Personal life

Labine married Carrie Ruscheinsky on 2 June 2007. The couple have two children. He is active on Instagram, where he had around 197,000 followers as of October 2026.