Chris Leavins

Chris Leavins is a Canadian actor and writer based in Los Angeles. Known for playing Atticus Murphy, Jr. the malevolent school guidance counselor on cult TV series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil. He has appeared in a number of successful Canadian television shows, been nominated for two Gemini Awards and shared in a Gemini Award for Ensemble Performance win. He also created and hosted satirical internet show, Cute With Chris.

Early life Born in 1968, Leavins resided in Saskatchewan, Canada as a youngster. and 1998, Best Dramatic Series), The Eleventh Hour (Gemini Winner 2002–03, Best Dramatic Series) and Slings and Arrows (Gemini Winner 2006, Best Dramatic Series) which airs in America on the Sundance Channel. Leavins appears in the 1997 film The Hanging Garden as William.

In 2010 Leavins was cast in the comedy horror TV series Todd and the Book of Pure Evil as Atticus Murphy Jr., the seemingly affable school guidance counselor who is secretly in league with the Satanic cult at the heart of Crowley High. He would return to the role the following year when the series was renewed for a second season. After the series ended on a cliffhanger, Leavins along with the rest of the cast returned to voice their characters in an animated feature film Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End, which acted as a conclusion.

Leavins writes and performs for the stage as well. His shows Posterchild, The Captain, and The Best Play in the Fringe Festival Ever have been performed across North America.

In 2006 he started the internet show Cute with Chris, a satirical video podcast which he wrote, anchored, and produced himself from his apartment. The show features photos and letters sent in by viewers, which Leavins comments on, mocks, and subjects to polls on which is cutest. His show also features co-hosts: Colty, the female plastic horse, Pervy, the larger male perverted plastic horse with racist issues, and Peanuts, a bag of polystyrene peanuts that can only be understood by Leavins. The show's popularity increased over time, and the weekly episodes attracted up to 100,000 views each. Another two shows, this time charging money for tickets, were put on at the Theatre Centre, Toronto on April 19 and 20, 2008. Both sold out; the first in 20 minutes. Leavins has said that he sees this use of an Internet fan base to attract theatre audiences as a new model for success, and a solution to the difficulties that he experienced attracting audiences as a conventional writer and performer. Short film 1997 data-sort-value="Hanging Garden, The" | The Hanging Garden Sweet William 1998 American Whiskey Bar He TV movie 1999 Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion Vincent Coelle TV movie 2009 data-sort-value="Good Germany, The" | The Good Germany Gordon Verlaine TV movie 2017 Todd and the Book of Pure Evil: The End of the End Atticus Murphy Jr. (voice) Animated feature film

Television series Year Title Role Notes 1994 Robocop Wilson Eberhart 1 episode 1995 Due South Jim 1 episode 1996–2000 Traders Chris Todson Main cast 1998 La Femme Nikita Gregory Formitz 1 episode 2003 Blue Murder Carl Statler 1 episode 2003–2005 Bury the Lead (AKA The Eleventh Hour) Danny Pahlka, Ross Hudson 3 episodes 2004 Zoe Busiek: Wild Card Howard Leland, Jim Turner 1 episode 2006 Slings & Arrows Andrew McTeague 4 episodes 2010–2012 Todd and the Book of Pure Evil Atticus Murphy Jr. Main cast

Stage Posterchild The Captain The Best Play in the Fringe Festival Ever

Books The Captain and other stories (2009)

Awards and nominations Leavins was nominated for a Gemini Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for his work as Christopher Todson in the series Traders in 1997, and for Best Actor in a Guest Role for his work on Slings and Arrows in 2007. In 2011, alongside his fellow Todd and the Book of Pure Evil main cast-mates, won the Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Performance for musical episode "The Phantom of Crowley High".