Most recently Gregory played Ron Weasley in the Toronto production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for which he received a Dora nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role. He spent 12 seasons as a member of Soulpepper Theatre’s acting company, performing in over 40 productions including Mitch in A Streetcar Named Desire, Little Charles in August: Osage County, Brett in Bed & Breakfast, Valere in La Bête, Philip Carey in Of Human Bondage, Smith in Father Comes Home From the Wars: Parts 1, 2, & 3, Louis Ironson in Angels in America, himself in Alligator Pie (for which he won a Dora Award), Edmund Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Oswald in Ghosts. He has also performed with Crow’s Theatre, Canadian Stage, Company Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, YPT, The Canadian Opera Company, Shakespeare in the Rough, UnSpun, and Centaur Theatre. He is a series lead in the comedy Pillow Talk on Crave (Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance - Ensemble) and has twice been listed in the Top Ten Toronto Theatre Artists by Now Magazine.

For Gregory’s Acting Resume: Gregory Prest Acting Resume

Selected Press:

“Gregory Prest Masters the High Art of Playing the Fool in Soulpepper’s La Bête

Known primarily for dramatic roles in Of Human Bondage, Angels in America, Long Day’s Journey Into Night and more, Prest is now enjoying an undeniable thrust into comedic territory…

As a blowhard who fancies himself an artist of the highest order, Prest makes an enviable scene partner of himself — volleying from thought to thought, phrase to phrase, rhyme to rhyme. Prest hides his own hard work as a skillful actor, under the guise of a character who is off on an interminable tangent, with no coherent thought to guide him, no actual grasp of the topics he prattles on about. Prest sends his voice into the upper nasal echelons as he perches on his tiptoes when he’s excited, gets low and drawn-out when in thought, breaking free from the rhythm in Hirson’s clever couplets and turning it into real speech”

-       Toronto Star (Carly Maga on La Bête)

“Soulpepper’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s shattering Long Day’s Journey Into Night has drawn especially good reviews for its two younger cast members: Evan Buliung as the dissolute Jamie and Gregory Prest as the consumptive Edmund. Both are the kind of dynamite actors who seem to be getting better with each new appearance. The next time someone tries to tell you there are no great performers in the next generation, send them to see these two in action.”

-       Toronto Star (Richard Ouzounian on Long Day’s Journey Into Night)

“In contrast is a gentler duet, exquisitely sung by another husband and wife (Gregory Prest and Ms. Duffy), a humble hymn to conjugal love set to a lone piano.”

-       New York Times (Ben Brantley on Spoon River)

“This is momentous. One of Soulpepper’s problems over the years has been finding – and holding on to – young male actors likely to inherit from their formidable list of founding members. Prest, who has succeeded in one demanding role after another in the last two years, demonstrating equal intensity as tragedian and clown, seems to be the man.”

-       National Post (Robert Cushman on Alligator Pie)

“Mr. Prest balances his darkly fascinating character’s mania with an underlying sense of goodness. You can see it on his face: This man realizes he is being rash, yet is unable to control himself. His jealousy and passion are all the more unnerving for being so naked.”

-       New York Times (Ken Jaworowski on Of Human Bondage)

“Prest’s achievement is even more impressive as he goes from being a charming son to a tortured demon to a shattered ruin right before our eyes. And he makes you believe every step of the process…

Ghosts remains a work of incredible power and in Gregory Prest, we’ve found an actor to step into that blessed place where greatness dwells.”

-       Toronto Star (Richard Ouzounian on Ghosts)

“Gregory Prest, himself about as sympathetic as an actor can get, beautifully conveys the mixed emotions of a man hating himself in the effort to hate her”

-       Cushman Collected (Robert Cushman on Streetcar Named Desire)