Ari Millen

Ari Millen has gained acclaim in Canada for his many screen, television and theater performances, particularly in Canadian horror and sci-fi movies, starting with director/writer/producer Jesse Thomas Cook’s horror comedy, Monster Brawl (2011), co-starring Dave Foley, Art Hindle, Robert Maillet, Kevin Nash, Jimmy Hart and Lance Henriksen, and which premiered at Fantasia Fest before a release by Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Millen appeared in director/writer Allen Bergeron’s sci-fi movie, Embryonic (2012), with Gil Anderson, Paul Beer and Laura Burns, and then Millen was a cast member of the Canadian sci-fi horror movie, Ejecta (2014), with Julian Richings, Lisa Houle and Adam Seybold under the co-direction of Chad Archibald and Matt Wiele (who were also co-editors) and launched at Fantasia Fest.

Millen’s next Canadian horror movie acting appearance was in director/editor John Geddes’s Hellmouth (2014), with Stephen McHattie, Siobhan Murphy and Boyd Banks and produced by Foresight Features, and then Millen had a supporting role in director/producer/actor April Mullen’s Canadian thriller, Farhope Tower (2015), with John White, Evan Williams and Lauren Collins, and released by Breakthrough Entertainment. Millen appeared in his first U.S. release, director/co-story writer/producer Steven Shainberg’s sci-fi horror movie, Rupture (2016), written by Brian Nelson, co-starring Noomi Rapace, Peter Stormare, Kerry Bishe, Michael Chiklis, Lesley Manville and Paul Popovich, and which was released in the U.K. after premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival.

Ari Millen appeared in Canadian director/co-writer/producer Xavier Dolan’s first English-language film, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (2018), co-written by Jacob Tierney, co-starring Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Tremblay, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Thandiwe Newton, Sarah Gadon and Michael Gambon, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival and released by Les Films Seville to a $3.3 million box office.

Millen co-starred in playwright Peter Genoway’s screen adaptation of his play, The Oak Room (2020), with RJ Mitte, Peter Outerbridge, Martin Roach and Nicholas Campbell under Cody Calahan’s direction and which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival, and then Millen continued with director/producer Cody Calahan’s horror comedy, Vicious Fun (2020), with Evan Marsh, Julian Richings, Robert Maillet and David Koechner, premiering at the Sitges Film Festival and released by Shudder.

Millen co-starred with Jett Klyne, Richard Armitage and Christopher Heyerdahl in director/writer Rebecca Snow’s big-screen version of Maxwell Smart’s WWII memoir, The Boy in the Woods (2023), premiering at the Toronto Film Festival before a release by Photon Films. Millen had his first starring role in a Hollywood movie as the title character in horror director/co-writer/producer Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man (2026), with Charlie Zeltzer, Shiloh O’Reilly, Kiori Mirza Waldman, Sarah Abbott, Benjamin Byron Davis and Karen Cliché, produced by Roth’s The Horror Section and MCT Studios and released wide by Iconic Events Releasing.