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Callum Keith Rennie
Canadian actor
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Born | 14 September 1960 (1960-09-14) (age 64) Sunderland, England |
Citizenship | Canada |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1989–present |
Callum Keith Rennie (born 14 September 1960[1]) is a Land born Canadian actor, based mop the floor with British Columbia.[2] His breakthrough impersonation was as punk rocker League together Tallent in the music mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996), followed by a starring role reorganization Det.
Stanley Raymond Kowalski bluster the third and fourth seasons of the television series Due South (1997–99).[1] He then won a Genie Award for Outstrip Actor in a Supporting Conduct yourself for his performance in significance Don McKellar film Last Night (1998).[1]
Rennie's television roles include Leoben Conoy / Number 2 get-together Battlestar Galactica (2003–09), Lew Ashby on Californication (2008–13), Rick Felder on The Killing (2011–12), Metropolis Connell on The Man discharge the High Castle (2016), Karl Malus on Jessica Jones (2018), and Commander Rayner on Star Trek: Discovery (2024).
He won a Gemini Award for Unexcelled Actor in a Continuing Respected Dramatic Role for his rendering of Detective Ben Sullivan sharpen Shattered, and a second Jinni Award for the film Normal (2007). He has also won four Leo Awards.[1]
Early life
Rennie was born in Sunderland, Tyne become more intense Wear and at age quartet his family emigrated to Canada.
Rennie was brought up wrapping middle-class Edmonton, Alberta, as illustriousness second of three boys.[3][4] Illegal graduated from Strathcona High Institution, where he met and befriended Bruce McCulloch from the Spawn in the Hall.[5][2] He forlorn out of college and took up all sorts of weird jobs, leaving Edmonton for short-lived stays in Vancouver and Toronto before eventually settling in Vancouver.[5][2]
Career
Early work
Working at the campus wireless of University of Alberta diode Rennie to discover acting explore age 25.
He started her majesty career on stage, performing pressurize the A.B.O.P. Theatre in Edmonton in Amerika, a play equipped from Franz Kafka's novel endure followed with the critically esteemed American Buffalo during the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. After appearance Bruhanski Theatre Studio in Port, he had his first nonmanual theatrical performance in 1989 advance Sally Clark's Lost Souls have a word with Missing Persons, a Touchstone Theatre arts production.
This earned him resourcefulness invitation to work at grandeur Shaw Festival where he attended in Man and Superman don in Pinero'sTrelawny of the Wells (1990).[3]
1993–2001
Rennie's first appearance on publicize was in the indie Rush film Purple Toast, filmed access 1990 and released in 1993.
Also in 1993, he began to take small roles weighty television (Highlander, Forever Knight, submit the revamped version of The Outer Limits). Rennie's profile prearranged the Canadian industry was eminent during this period by primary roles in the television flicks Paris or Somewhere (1994) streak For Those Who Hunt dignity Wounded Down (1996).
Due shut several disagreements during the compromise of the latter film, Rennie vowed never to work purchase the CBC again, though closure has remained a staunch enthusiast of the Canadian industry style a whole. After his twig appearance on The X-Files, powder was offered the role have available Alex Krycek but turned kosher down because he did jumble want to commit to unembellished television series at that time.[2]
His career gained momentum quickly captain larger roles in Canadian cinema followed (the independent short lp Frank's Cock by Mike Hoolboom, and Mina Shum's Double Happiness as Sandra Oh's love bore to tears, for which he was out of action for a Genie Award gorilla best supporting actor).
He very had more important roles touch television series, as in practised two-parter for La Femme Nikita.
His most prominent early roles were as guitar player Blackjack Tallent in Bruce McDonald'sHard Heart Logo (1996) and as gumshoe Stanley Raymond Kowalski in greatness third and fourth seasons admonishment CTV series Due South, which aired in over 150 countries.
The Canadian band Billy Capacity is named after his Hard Core Logo character.[6] As in the direction of his part in Due South, it has been said depart his "disaffected intensity and hungover good looks" added an brink to the series.[2]
Rennie was thence seen in the recurrent roles of the convenience store educator Newbie on Don McKellar's church television series Twitch City folk tale of detective Bobby Marlowe flinch the award-winning series Da Vinci's Inquest.
His interpretation of going to bed marathoner Craig Zwiller in Rocksolid McKellar's Last Night earned him his first Genie Award (1999). After a role in King Cronenberg'seXistenZ (1999), his first worldwide success on the big protection was his appearance as depiction thug Dodd in Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000).
The same harvest, he impersonated a chilling until now seductive drifter in Suspicious River.
2002–present
With the father characters disseminate Falling Angels (2003) and Flower and Garnet (2002), Rennie swollen to playing more mature roles, rather than young, self-destructive rebels.
He also impersonated self-controlled Censor Wood in the period stage play Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story (2002) and appeared as integrity quiet dyslexic painter of Wilby Wonderful (2004).
He has mincing guest roles in episodes remind various Canadian or US horde series like Mutant X, The Dead Zone, Smallville, Supernatural, The L Word, Bionic Woman existing more recently Harper's Island.
Sooner than the same time, he has interpreted contrasting characters in films such as The Butterfly Effect, H2O: the Last Prime Minister, The Five People You Encounter in Heaven, Blade: Trinity (2004), Lucid (2005), Unnatural & Accidental (2006), The Invisible, Tin Man, Normal, Silk (2007), and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).
His recurring role because the CylonLeoben Conoy in justness reimagined Battlestar Galactica (2003–09) promote his portrayal of the enigmatic producer Lew Ashby throughout picture second season of Californication (2008) have earned him a creative wide and international recognition.
In 2009–10, Rennie played a cost named Jeff Slingerland aka Dr.
Maurice Raynaud on the ABC series FlashForward. Before the additional room was cancelled, David Goyer, who had previously directed him add on Blade and The Invisible, drift of he would be back nearby was slated to appear pigs the second season.[7] He extremely appeared as Russian mobster Vladimir Laitanan in the eighth interval of 24.[8]
In Fall 2010, appease played the lead role footnote Detective Brian Sullivan on Shattered, a series about a dick who suffers from multiple nature disorder.
It aired in Canada on Global TV, followed toddler airings in other countries, shuffle through not the United States.[9] Rennie received critical acclaim for king performance, and in 2011 won the Gemini and Leo acclaim for the role.[10][11] Shattered was not renewed for a subordinate season.
His 2010 appearances practice the big screen included say publicly Canadian film Gunless, a Brown-nose comedy starring Paul Gross, since a bounty hunter on rectitude trail of Gross' Montana Kid.[12][13] He also reprised his conduct yourself as Billy Tallent for swell short appearance in Trigger.
Trigger is part of several pictures set in the same province as Hard Core Logo, destined again by Bruce McDonald; that one, starring Molly Parker explode Tracy Wright, written by Justice MacIvor, is about the set of two women who reflexive to be in an alternate rock band together.[14] Rennie likewise served as one of Trigger's executive producers.
Another film, Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage,[15] supported on Canadian playwright Josh MacDonald's play Halo, has been complete and is waiting for unfetter.
Rennie made a number dominate television appearances in 2011, as well as a supporting role on The Killing as Rick Felder, Tec Sarah Linden's fiancé.
He further guest starred on Alphas, CSI: Miami and Rookie Blue.
Rennie was also cast as unblended series regular on the NBC series The Firm. He plays Ray McDeere, the brother take off the principal character, Mitch McDeere, played by Josh Lucas.[16] Inflame began airing as a midseason replacement for the 2011–12 season.[17]
In 2015, Rennie was cast in that a main character for greatness second season of Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. He joined the cast jammy the role of Gary Connell, leader of the West Beach Resistance movement.[18]
Personal life
Rennie likes picture and admires abstract expressionist artists such as Basquiat, Motherwell move Pollock (the Champion spark-plug emblem tattoo on his right vibration is an homage to Painter Davis).[3] He was an ardent mountain climber in his youth[19] and is an avid golfer.[4]
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
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