<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1984--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Chantal Craig </Td> </Tr> <P> Yannick D. Bisson (born May 16, 1969) is a Canadian film and television actor and director best known to international audiences for playing Detective William Murdoch on the series Murdoch Mysteries . </P> <P> Bisson was born in Montreal, Quebec, and is of French and English ancestry . He moved to Toronto, Ontario, as a teenager and his acting career began when he was still in high school . His father, noting his son's interest in acting, encouraged him to reply to a newspaper advertisement seeking "child actors". </P>

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