Darryl Hinds

Darryl Hinds is a Canadian actor and sketch comedian, best known as a cast member of Royal Canadian Air Farce's annual New Year's Eve specials in the 2010s.[1]

Hinds was born in Canada to Jamaican immigrants, with an Afro-Jamaican father and an Indo-Caribbean mother.[1] He had stage acting roles in his early career,[2] and was a member of the sketch comedy troupe Electric Boogaloo,[3] before joining the Toronto company of The Second City in 2007 as a cast member in the revue Facebook of Revelations.[4] He also starred in the 2008 revue Barack to the Future, in which he appeared in several sketches as Barack Obama,[5] and in the 2009 shows 0% Down, 100% Screwed[6] and Shut Up and Show Us Your Tweets.[7]

He joined Air Farce for the 2014 special,[8] remaining with the troupe until their final special in 2019.[9]

In 2020 he participated in Mass Hysterical: A Comedic Cantata, a webcast collaboration between Second City alumni and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra which presented a comedic history of the use of classical and liturgical music in the church.

As an actor he has had recurring or guest roles in the television series Combat Hospital, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Rookie Blue, Odd Squad and Murdoch Mysteries,[1] and a starring role in the 2021 family sitcom Overlord and the Underwoods.[10]