Philippe Hartmann

Canadian-American actor, voice talent and New Yorker by adoption, Philippe Hartmann was born on December 18, 1970 in Montréal, Québec. Both his parents are originally from Europe. His French mother is Françoise Hartmann (née Hanssens-Eischen) an animator and film director at the National Film Board of Canada and his Belgian born Hungarian father, István Hartmann is a window dresser, display artist and decorator for many well-known Canadian department stores. Philippe attended John Abbott College and trained for three years in professional theatre then studied at Concordia University majoring in English & French literature, before leaving for New York City to study film & TV acting with George Loros and Irma Sandrey at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from 1992-95, which he is a graduate. He also studied acting and playwright at The 42nd Street Collective and performed his first off-Broadway play at Playwrights Horizons. In the summer of '95, directly after finishing Strasberg, he