Aubrey Nealon

Aubrey Nealon (born 1971 in New Denver, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television director, producer and writer, most noted as the creator and showrunner of the CTV drama series Cardinal. Nealon began his career as a teen actor, with a minor role as oddball Finnish exchange student "Olaf" on the YTV/Nickelodeon teen soap opera Hillside (aka Fifteen in the U.S.). A graduate of the Vancouver Film School, Nealon directed the short films House Arrest, Abe's Manhood and In Memoriam before releasing his semi-autobiographical feature film debut A Simple Curve in 2005. The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2005, was a Leo Award nominee for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay in 2006, and received a Directors Guild of Canada nomination for Best Feature Film in 2006. Following A Simple Curve he has worked predominantly in television, including writing and producing for Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Saving Hope ()