David Reale
David Reale is an actor, born 1984.
Canadian actors of a certain vintage share a career shape, and Reale's is a clean example of it: recurring parts in American series shot in Toronto, leads at home that the American audience never sees, and a steady sideline in voice work that started when he was a teenager dubbing anime, including Kai Hiwatari in the original Beyblade. He was in Mean Girls before he could legally drink in most of the United States.
Benjamin on Suits is the calling card, and it ran from 2011 to the show's end in 2019, which is remarkable longevity for a part that size. That is the pattern of his best work generally: he is the recurring presence a series reaches for when a scene needs to land sideways, and he plays comedy inside dramas without ever visibly asking for the laugh.
The rest of the resume leans genre. Evan Lambert in The Boys, the segment The Empty Wake in V/H/S/94, GrayCris Yellow in Murderbot, a werewolf picture, a found-footage thriller, a Canadian road movie in One Week. The leads have come at home, in series like Less Than Kosher and My Dead Mom, and he works on stage as well, including a 2016 Canadian production of My Name Is Asher Lev.
It is a working actor's career rather than a famous one, and there is a great deal of it. The interesting question is whether one of the Canadian leads travels, because nothing in the supporting work suggests he could not carry something bigger.
Movies (12)
TV (5)
Where to start with David Reale
Suits is the obvious entry and the right one, because it is the only place you can watch him accumulate. Benjamin turns up across the whole run, and the pleasure is how little he changes while everyone around him is having a crisis.
The Boys is the better show and gives him less, which is worth knowing before you go looking. For the horror strand, V/H/S/94 hands him an entire segment. Murderbot is the recent one and the biggest platform he has had. One Week is the Canadian film worth an evening on its own terms, a road picture with far more sadness in it than the premise advertises. Everything else here, Chloe, Skins, Georgetown, is a scene or two, and there is no shame in that.