Murdoch Mysteries; Meet Yannick Bisson

I’m a Canadian actor that got started pretty early on …13-years-old I started auditioning in Toronto and have been doing films, series, commercials, animation and radio campaigns for 37-ish years.

William is a guy with exceptional talents and a unique way of thinking that has caused him to use early forensic techniques to help him solve crimes. 

The big evolution William has been his outlook. He started out quite buttoned down and somewhat black-and-white in his views. As time has gone by he has started seeing different points of view and how society’s opinions rule the fate of some people. This has softened him to a degree. He will always do his job but has much more empathy and understanding of what’s going on around him. 

We thought we had a pretty good reason to celebrate when we hit 100….

Now here we are at 200…? It’s been a heck of a journey, at times tough, at times bliss, but always and I mean always an absolutely incredible privilege. 

There haven’t been many changes, the formula/format has been pretty much since the beginning. The only exceptions are the addition of top notch supporting cast to help us deepen character development. This has made a big difference for me by affording me the odd day off lol 

One of the (many) things that has made this show an international success is that we’ve always been at the cutting edge of scientific advancement and the minds that have made this possible. The 200th episode brings many of history’s greatest minds (and also some of our favorite actors) back to solve a huge caper. 

That’s a tough one to answer. Each year I’m amazed by what the team comes up with…I can’t even imagine what will come next.

I just filmed a week on an independent film “Anything for Jackson “ 

I memorize 6-10 pages of dialogue per day by myself each day. Every actor you work with has a different way of doing things but I’ve noticed that I do that part best on my own. I’ve been told that I’m a Kinesthetic learner (context and physical, special sense) and therefore sitting and trying to ram dialogue into my skull is very difficult. May explain why I had trouble focusing in school hahaha.

My last few shows have been the Madalorian and the round of award nominee films of course.

It’s been a landmark year to be sure,  we obviously have all of the writers to thank and our incredibly tenacious producer Christina Jennings.