Robert Holmes “R.H.” Thomson

Robert Holmes “R.H.” Thomson has appeared in film and television and in theatres across Canada. He played Matthew Cuthbert in Anne with an E for CBC/Netflix and recently appeared at the Atlantic Theatre Company as Vladimir in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and Solness in The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen. His passion for mingling music and narrative has led to projects with Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, the Toronto Bach Festival and orchestras in many parts of Canada.

An advocate for the arts, Thomson has also worked on many history/arts projects. He built The World Remembers/Le monde se souvient, a multi-nation First World War commemoration project that has displays at the Canadian War Museum, the National WWI Museum and Memorial in the United States and soon the Vimy Memorial in France. His book By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families, an engaging exploration of how the stories we tell affect the wars we fight, was on the bestseller list for Canadian non-fiction. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.