Miklos Perlus (born March 23, 1977) is a Canadian actor, writer, and story editor. Perlus has appeared on Canadian series Student Bodies, Road to Avonlea and Sidekick. He has written for Degrassi: The Next Generation and other series. He has also worked in television program development for several organizations.

Biography

Perlus was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended McGill University, where he studied Cultural Studies. Perlus played Victor Kane on Student Bodies, and Peter Craig on Road to Avonlea. Perlus' experience has included a variety of roles in media as a writer, a story editor and he has developed several television productions. He also wrote and co-developed CTV's Instant Star, and served as a writer and story editor for Degrassi: The Next Generation. He was the co-winner of a Writers Guild of Canada award (shared with James Hurst) for an episode of Degrassi. In 2008, Perlus became Marblemedia's Director of Content Development, where he was responsible for creating, sourcing and developing innovative multi-platform content and bringing them to fruition for television and digital media. In 2010, he became voice of Eric for the YTV animated series, Sidekick. From 2014 - 2016 he served as Vice President, Kids and Family at Marblemedia. In 2016, Perlus created and executive produced a live-action family comedy for preschoolers called Opie's Home. In 2017, he joined the animated series Nina's World (PBS Kids Sprout) as supervising producer, after which he joined Pipeline Studios to write and produce Doggy World for Disney Channel Latin America and to write for Elinor Wonders Why and Alma's Way for PBS, the latter of which earned him an Emmy nomination for best writing. In 2021, Perlus joined Moonbug Entertainment as creative producer on the preschool series Cocomelon for Netflix. He also joined WildBrain as creative producer on the reboot of Caillou, producing five CG animated specials and 52 episodes of the series for Peacock. In 2022, Perlus released an EP of original music called "Ragged Islands" as well as a single called "Joanna”, about his wife. Perlus has two sons, Dov and Everett.

Filmography

Film

Television

Other work