As successful behind the camera as he is in front of it, Graham Wardle is an actor, producer, and filmmaker. Since beginning his acting career by accident as a child, he has become most famous for playing Ty Bowden in Heartland, a major Canadian family drama that has now run for fourteen seasons, with Wardle starring in over 200 episodes. The show has established Wardle as a household name in his native Canada, and he’s been nominated for several Leo Awards. But despite such success, he’s refused to be typecast, branching out with a wide variety of roles and the formation of his own production company, Lone Maverick.

Wardle was born in British Columbia in 1986 and got his acting break when he and his mother unwittingly sat in a room where children were waiting to audition for a toy commercial. Wardle had a go, won the part and has never looked back. Aged 12, he made his first television appearances in Canadian drama The Sentinel and The New Addams Family, which was also shown in America and the UK. Through his teenage years, he continued to make sporadic film and TV appearances whilst also studying filmmaking at university in Vancouver. He graduated in 2007, the same year he won the life-changing role of Ty Bowden.

In 2013, Wardle’s Lone Maverick released their debut feature, Cold Lights, in which Wardle starred as a man abducted by aliens. In 2018, he produced Mi Madre, My Father, an indie film written by his Heartland co-star Michelle Morgan and founded via crowdfunding site Indiegogo.