Tyrone Benskin (born 29 December 1958) is an English-Canadian actor, theatre director and politician.
[2] On 2 May 2011, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada with a substantial margin, defeating Bloc Québécois incumbent Thierry St-Cyr.
He was dropped from the shadow cabinet after party leader Thomas Mulcair learned that Benskin owed the Quebec revenue agency $58,000 for unpaid taxes from 2007 to 2011.
Benskin apologized, attributing the non-payment to having precarious employment as an artist prior to becoming an MP.
[3] Benskin did not stand as a candidate in the 2015 federal election, having lost the local party's nomination to Allison Turner.