Camden Toy is an American

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

, screenwriter, and

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. He is best known as a character actor, often under

special effects Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual wo ...

prosthetic makeup. He has acted in over one hundred

independent films An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in ...

, and a number of television roles.

Early life

Toy grew up in Pennsylvania, and his interest in the film industry was encouraged early on by his father, who worked as an actor and makeup artist.

Career

Toy was one of the founding members and artistic director of the Obie Award-winning

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theatre in

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. After moving to Los Angeles, he appeared in the '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' episode "

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" as one of the demonic Gentlemen. In season seven, he played the skin-eating demon Gnarl in " Same Time, Same Place", and had a recurring role of the "ubervamp" Turok-Han. He also played the

Nosferatu ''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ...

-like vampire "The Prince of Lies" on the ''

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'' episode "

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". Toy was a series regular on the television sitcom ''

Goodnight Burbank ''Goodnight Burbank'' debuted on the web as a "webisodic" series in March 2006. In April 2011, it was reborn with a new cast, new look and new feel as a "webcom". Synopsis The series is about a fictional Burbank, CA 10:00PM newscast and its c ...

'' and in the first four seasons of the Emmy Award-winning series '' The Bay''. Most recently, Toy appeared in an episode of ''Into the Dark''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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Official site
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