Gordon Pinsent, the adored Canadian actor who gave an award-winning performance as the heartbroken husband in “Away From Her,” has died.
Posted: Feb. 27, 2023 8:31AMActor Gordon Pinsent poses for a portrait in his Toronto home on Tuesday February 27, 2018.
“Now you see, I don’t talk that way about myself, so I was pleased — it was just terrific,” Pinsent said with a laugh in an interview with The Canadian Press of Day-Lewis’s email and the continuing raves he was getting for “Away From Her,” especially since he didn’t garner the kind of international awards recognition some critics said he deserved for the role.
“I will miss my great mentor and this hero, this giant colossus of Canadian entertainment, but I’ll miss my friend Gordon Pinsent from Newfoundland because he was an even better friend than he was an actor,” said Critch. In the early 1950s, Pinsent took a break from acting and joined the Canadian Army, serving for about four years.
In 2013 he starred in Don McKellar’s acclaimed Newfoundland-set comedy “The Grand Seduction,” which earned him a Canadian Screen Award for best supporting actor. “Away From Her” was particularly poignant for him – his own wife of 45 years, actress Charmion King, died just a couple of months before the film’s mainstream release, forcing Pinsent to re-examine the many themes of quiet despair explored in “Away From Her.”
Leah Pinsent was extremely close to her father, accompanying him to many events in the aftermath of her mother’s death and honouring him in June 2007 when he was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame. She described her father as her “truest inspiration and one of my best friends” at the event. But for all the outpouring of praise and admiration for Pinsent in the wake of “Away From Her,” movie offers didn’t come pouring in after its release. He got passed up for a role in a Tom Cruise film, and turned down a part in a Luke Wilson movie.
“I wanted to work where I wanted to live. You could spend three or four lifetimes down there, just standing around waiting for something, waiting for good material to happen.”
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