Mike Smith is best known for playing Bubbles on cult comedy series Trailer Park Boys, but here's a guide to his other movie and TV credits.
He's best known as Bubbles on cult comedy series Trailer Park Boys, but what other movie and TV shows has actor Mike Smith been part of? Before joining Trailer Park Boys, Smith was better known as a musician. He was a guitarist and founding member of rock band Sandbox, who released two albums titled Bionic and A Murder in the Glee Club. Smith is also a longtime friend of Trailer Park Boys creator Mike Clattenburg, with the pair working together on a short titled The Cart Boy in 1995. This film is credited with sparking the idea for Trailer Park Boys and saw Smith play a prototype of Bubbles.
Smith later boarded the original Trailer Park Boys movie in 1999, though he worked as a sound mixer on the project. The film later led to a TV spin-off with network Showcase, which added Mike Smith's Bubbles to the cast. Over time, Bubbles - with his distinctive glasses and accent - became a breakout favorite to viewers. Even those who've never watched an episode of Trailer Parks Boys are likely familiar with the visual of Smith squinting through his trademark Coke bottle glasses.
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Bubbles became such a cult figure he later featured in music videos for Snow and at some Guns N'Roses shows, with Axl Rose being a huge fan of the character. Trailer Parks Boys ran for seven seasons on Showcase, and was later revived on Netflix for a further five series; it also received movie spin-offs. While finding success on the sitcom, Smith worked various jobs on other movies in the early 2000s, including being a sound mixer on director Kathryn Bigelow's thriller The Weight Of Water and a cableman on romantic comedy Serendipity. He soon found other acting gigs, such as a role in 2004's A Hole in One starring Michelle Williams and Meat Loaf.
Mike Smith loaned his voice to a 2008 episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and appeared in movies like 2011 sleeper hit comedy Goon and Canadian comedy Lloyd the Conqueror. In 2011 he also appeared alongside Trailer Park Boys co-stars Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay in the comedy show The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour. The series cast the trio as versions of themselves but despite a talented crew behind it, the show only lasted for one season.
In the last decade, Smith has amassed an array of other credits, including the poorly received comedy series 24 Hour Rental from 2014, a season 3 episode of Archer - which will return for season 13 - and appeared as himself in the documentary Being Canadian. He also co-created internet network Swearnet with his Trailer Park Boys co-stars, which is behind such projects like Swearnet: The Movie, which holds the record for the most uses of the f-bomb in a film. Mike Smith is next set to appear in Bobby Farrelly comedy Champions.
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