Ian Tracey plays the clever and understated Homicide Detective Mick Leary. Cool, collected and careful, Leary is a talented, intuitive investigator. A Gemini Award-winning actor, Tracey was born on Vancouver Island and grew up all around B.C.'s lower mainland. A performer at a young age, Tracey went for his first audition when he was eleven years old. He started working in series television at fourteen, playing the lead in Huckleberry Finn and Friends. Since then, he has appeared in countless Canadian and American productions.
Tracey's feature film credits include Owning Mahoney, Emile, Cellmates, Open Range, Desolation Sound, Ice Men and Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss. Other films include The Space Between, Insomnia, The Ice Man, Double Edged, Touched, Rupert's Land (for which he won a Leo Award), Free Willy III, Time Cop, Stakeout, Change of Heart, Man With A Gun, The Journey of Natty Gann, Liberty Stands Still, Lola and Prozac Nation. He has appeared in a number of movies-of-the-week, including starring in the title role of Milgaard, for which he won both Gemini and Leo Awards for Best Actor. Other television movies include Dirty Little Secret, Rookies (for which he received a 1991 Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), Medusa's Child, Mountain of Fear, Murder In My Mind, The War Between Us and Conspiracy of Silence.
Tracey was a series regular on Sweating Bullets and had a recurring lead on The Commish. He was also seen in Taken and has guest starred on Dark Angel, The Sentinel, Welcome to Paradox, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Viper, Poltergeist, Highlander, Dead Man's Gun, Lonesome Dove, and Mom P.I., where he first worked with Chris Haddock and was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Guest Performance. He also guest starred in CBC's Street Legal and the series Change of Heart, for which he received a nomination for an ACTRA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Tracey's credits also include directing episodes of Da Vinci's Inquest.