Karack Osborn
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Karack Osborn is a Canadian stage and screen actor who trained at The Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. He first encountered theater in earnest at twelve years old through a re-release screening of Grease, and his commitment to acting solidified when he encountered Shakespeare at fifteen. That classical foundation carried him to the Stratford Festival of Canada, where he built an extensive body of work in major roles across Shakespeare and other period repertoire.
At Stratford, Osborn played Scarrus in Antony and Cleopatra, Autolycus in The Winter's Tale, Gloucester in Henry VI: Days of Rebellion, and Angelo in Measure for Measure. His performance as Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination in the regional theater circuit. He also played Sam Phillips in Million Dollar Quartet.
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), Osborn appeared as a Firefighter from 1904. His character is part of a sequence set at the Manhattan Adventurers Society in mid-July 1904, when Hook and Ladder Company 8 was called to the building following a paranormal event. The firefighters entered a frozen room inside the Society's headquarters, where a lone Fire Master had just completed a ritual to reseal the ancient spirit Garraka inside a brass orb, preventing him from escaping during a gathering at the Society. When the firefighters entered, they discovered the Fire Master standing in the frozen room and slowly approached her; she suddenly opened her eyes, startling them, as the orb sealed shut. The sequence establishes the historical background of the Garraka threat that drives the film's central conflict.
