[1] He is best known for playing Felix King in Road to Avonlea,[2] for which he received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role at the 7th Gemini Awards in 1993.
[3] He was also a Daytime Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming in 1990 for his role in the television film Looking for Miracles,[4] and a Genie Award nominee for Best Actor at the 22nd Genie Awards in 2002 for the film Desire.
[5] Bennett formed the indie rock band Yonder in 2004,[6] which was renamed Tin Star Orphans in 2008.
[7] The band's debut album, Skywalk to Crescent Town, was released in 2008,[8] before being reissued under the title Yonder in 2009 after they changed their name and signed to the Sparks Music label.
[9] They released two further albums, The Days of Blinding Fear in 2010 and Tin Star Orphans in 2014.