Callum Keith Rennie: Difference between revisions

Rennie was born in [[Sunderland, Tyne and Wear|Sunderland]], [[Tyne and Wear]], to Scottish parents. When he was four years old, the family emigrated to Canada. Rennie was brought up in middle-class [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]], as the second of three boys.<ref name="12steps">{{cite web|url=http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/gilliams/559/saturdaynight.html |title=12 Steps to Stardom |date=March 1998 |work=[[Saturday Night (magazine)|Saturday Night Magazine]] |accessdate=2009-12-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930152446/http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/gilliams/559/saturdaynight.html |archivedate=30 September 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name="soap">{{cite web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/the_ckr_files/18231.html |archive-url=https://archive.is/20121225211826/http://community.livejournal.com/the_ckr_files/18231.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=25 December 2012 |title=Face of the fortnight: Due South's Callum Keith Rennie |date=25 June 1998 |publisher=[[Inside Soap]] issue 103 |accessdate=2009-12-30 }}</ref><ref name="tao">{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_35_10/ai_81414107/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041122221426/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_35_10/ai_81414107|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2004-11-22|title=The Tao of Callum Keith Rennie|date=December 2001|work=[[Take One (Canadian magazine)|Take One]]|accessdate=2009-12-30 | first=Cynthia | last=Amsden}}</ref> He graduated from [[Strathcona Composite High School|Strathcona High School]], where he met and befriended [[Bruce McCulloch]] from ''[[The Kids in the Hall]]''.<ref name="skin">{{cite web|url=http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/gilliams/559/vines.html |title=Getting Under Callum Keith Rennie's Skin |date=April–May 1999 |publisher=Vines |accessdate=2009-12-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007142652/http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/gilliams/559/vines.html |archivedate=7 October 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref name="Northern Stars">{{cite web|url=http://www.northernstars.ca/actorspqr/rennie_callum_keith_bio.html |title=Callum Keith Rennie |publisher=The Canadian Movie Database |accessdate=2009-12-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127132109/http://northernstars.ca/actorspqr/rennie_callum_keith_bio.html |archivedate=27 November 2010 |df=dmy }}</ref> He dropped out from college and took up all sorts of odd jobs instead, leaving Edmonton for brief stays in [[Vancouver]] and [[Toronto]] before eventually settling in Vancouver.<ref name="skin"/><ref name="Northern Stars"/> After a serious bout with alcoholism in his youth, Rennie managed to get his addiction under control at age 33 and was finally able to commit to acting.<ref name="12steps"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/the_ckr_files/24513.html |archive-url=https://archive.is/20120707230028/http://community.livejournal.com/the_ckr_files/24513.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=7 July 2012 |title=Hunky Hard Core Logo star gives himself away |date=17 October 1996 |work=[[Now (newspaper)|Now Toronto]] |accessdate=2009-12-30 }}</ref>

 

 

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