Top 10 Astonishing Facts about Victor Garber

Victor Garber photo by Heroes and Villains Wikimedia 

 Top 10 Astonishing Facts About Victor Garber

Victor Joseph Garber was born on March 16, 1949, in London, Ontario, Canada. He is the son of Joseph Garber and Hope Garber. He has a brother Nathen and a sister Alisa.

His mother hosted a Tv show in London and she was an actress and a singer just like her son. He is married to a Canadian artist and model Rainer Andreesen.

He is a Canadian actor and singer. Victor is known for his work in film, television, and the theatre. At age of 10, he began acting in children’s production at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario.

When he was 16, he dropped out of high school and moved to Toronto to pursue a performing career. Victor formed a band called Sugar Shoppe with Peter Mann, Lee Harris, and Laurie Hood in the late 1960s.

In 1972, his first acting breakthrough came in a Toronto stage production of Godspell. He has been nominated for 3 Gemini Awards, 4 Tony Awards and 6 Primetime Emmy Awards.

1. Victor Garber Started Acting at Age of 10

Victor and Legends cast of Tomorrow. Photo by Flickr.com Wikimedia

At the age of 10, Victor Garber started acting in children’s production at the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario.

He is an actor and he has been a part of the University of Toronto’s Hart house acting group.

Before joining the Sugar Shoppe to form a folk band with Laurie Hood, Lee Harris, and Peter Mann he had performed various Toronto workshop productions.

He has been in movies such as Titanic (1997), Legally Blonde (2001), Young Again 2010), Dark Water (2019), and Godspell (1973 among others.

2. Received Many Awards and Nominations

Jones and Victor Garber at the Drama League Benefit Gala Honoring Angela Lansbury, February 8, 2010. Photo by Rob Rich. Wikimedia Commons

Garber has been nominated for 3 Gemini Award, 4 Tony Awards and 6 Primetime Emmy Awards.

In 1979-1980 he established roles in the Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of the fleet street and in 1983-1985 noises off, acquiring him a Drama Desk Award.

His role in Wenceslas square in 1988 won him an Obie Award and Helen Hayes Award.

From 2001 to 2006, Victor was well known for his roles as Jack Bristow in the drama series Alias on television which won him 3 continuous Primetime Emmy Award nominations as well as attaining a Saturn Award and a Satellite Award.

3. He was Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at Age of 12

Victor Garber was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1992 at age of 12 years. He never allowed the disease to stop him from pursuing and achieving his dream. At 16 he left home and dropped out of school and moved to Toronto to pursue his dream of action despite being sick.

He has been living with the disease for 5 decades. Garber’s second-class cousin suffered from Type 1 Diabetes too.

After he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes Victor was taken to a diabetes camp known as Camp Banting in Ottawa, Ontario.

He states that it was a struggle for him at a young age for he had to do urine testing and boiling the needles for insulin injections for the technology was poor back then.

4. Victor Garber’s Zodiac Sign Is Pisces

An astrology birth chart is also known as a natal chart. Astrology’s birth chart of him is like a map that gives an image of all the planetary coordinates at the exact time of Victor Garber’s birth.

Pisces’ dates are February 19 to March 20 and they are ideologues and mystics of the zodiac/ac. multiple of them are replenished with imagination, magic, and amazement.

Similarly, they can be unrealistic, passive, pendant, codependent, and self-pitying.

5. Born in the Year of the Ox

Victor Garber was born in the Year of the Ox. People born in the year of the ox are energetic, hold their beliefs firmly, are vigilant, are glad to offer assistance, and are reasonable, straightforward, and sincere.

According to Chinese astrologers believe people born in ox year can exhibit good leadership and have a tendency to be judgmental and rebellious.

They have lucky numbers which are 1,9 and lucky colours such as red, blue, and purple.

6. He Announced He was Gay in 2012

Although Victor Garber refers to his life as private, he publicly announced he was gay in 2012. In the year 2013, he said “I don’t talk about it but everybody knows”.

Since 2000 Victor Garber has been in a relationship with a Canadian artist and model Rainer Andreesen.

Andreesen confirmed on his Instagram page on October 10, 2015, that he and Victor Garber were married in Canada.

He married him after being together for sixteen years.

7. Victor Garber is a Singer

Victor Garber photo by Heroes and villains Wikimedia commons

Victor formed a folk group called the Sugar Shoppe with Peter Mann, Laurie Hood, and Lee Harris in 1967 after a duration of working as a solo folk singer.

In 1967 the band enjoyed a rated success and paused into the Canadian Top 40 with a version of Bobby Gimby’s song “Canada”

In 1967 and 1968, the three Sugar Shoppe songs made the lower extents of the Canadian Top 100.

The team performed on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson before breaking up.

8. His Life Path Number is 6

Victor Garber photo by Heroes and Villains Wikimedia

Victor Garber’s life path number is 6.

Life part number 6 represents ‘The Nurturer”. Life path number 6 implies that you live in service to others and have an affinity to your home and family life.

Those who walk a life path with Number 6 are associated with a lot of love, care, humility, and leave no stone unturned to help those in need.

These qualities are rare to many people. Victor Garber took this quality from her mother (Hope Garber).

9. He Comes From a Musical and Acting Family

Hope Garber, the mother of Victor Garber, was a Canadian-born actress and singer.

She hosted a television show on CFPL-Tv in London, Ontario – just like her son Victor.

10. Born in the Middle of the Baby Boomers Era

Baby Boomers is a phrase used to describe a person born between 1946 to 1964 and belongs to an age group that had a meaningful impact on the economy.

The Baby Boomer generation makes up a significant fraction of the world’s population, especially in developed nations.

Garber was born in the middle of the Baby Boomers era.