Want to know all about baby Callum and high school Callum?

Well this is the place for it! You can read the official and unofficial history of Callum Keith Rennie in the making. The info comes from the official Due South release and some more from friends and I jumbled it all up to confuse you!

If you are really bored you can read my personal bio with links to my favourite bands and actors with a little history of my so-called life!

Enjoy!

Thanks to IMDb, DS Con, Elyse and other friends for some of this info

Callum is a versatile actor who can take on the role of a young nerdish boyfriend on one hand, or become lead guitarist of a small Canadian punk band on the other. He has a small wry frame, but his nick name "The Body Hammer" (given to him by his friend Hugh Dillion) in many way's is quite appropriate. With blue eyes (there is debate as to his true eye colour), a smile that can be either "charming or dangerous" (quote from William and Elyse's DS Page, CKR Bio) and, usually sporting an unkept style of spiky hair. People have said he is Canada's version of James Dean or Brad Pitt, but neither of those actors were as versitile as our boy. Yet his real personality is determind as shy and even quiet (get outta town!)

Baby Callum was born September 14th, 1960 in Sunderland, England to Scottish parents (YEAH ! I'm a scottie too!) who are now separated. His mother was born in Inverness, and his father in Aberdeen, Scotland you can't get more further north if you tried. He also has two brothers and he is the middle child.

As for his Vitals, well I am not sure but I am going on word of mouth at his height being 5'10 - 6 foot and his weight being 159lbs, kinda light eh! Ickle guy!. His family then moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, when he was only four years old, imagine that ! What a sight! A baby Callum! Cute!

Callum's Yearbook pic! (Thanks Elyse!)

He went to Strathcona High School where he made friends with the like's of Bruce McCullough of Kids In The Hall fame who introduced him to punk music in the late 70's (CKR has later admitted to listening to the Viletones, D.O.A. and the Diodes, and later sporting a mohawk while he was in University, also which he say's he was beaten up for on many occasions.) On a $5000 student loan he began going to the University Of Alberta, his favourite hangout's on campus were Dewey's and the RATT. But after the first two weeks of school Callum decided not to continue on with his academics, and instead decided rather to use the rest of his student loan money to buy a truck and go fishing for a couple of months. Good man! I can understand as I have been in higher Ed for 6..count 'em 6 years!

His past work experience includes laying railroad tracks, cooking, and digging ditches so as to fund his hobby of rock climbing. Other jobs Callum has done are: tree planter, paper baler, bartender, and worked night clubs, including the Anza Club and Graceland in Vancouver. God imagine that, you go to the bar for a 'beverage' and come face to face with him! YUM!

Callum later because of a friend, had a chance to do voice work at the U of A's radio station CJSR, and ended up for a year working there doing producing and writing. This lead him to first being stuck with the acting bug while he was 25, when he got into performing at the A.B.O.P. Theatre in Edmonton, and later in to a critically acclaimed play American Buffalo. From there he went to Toronto where he got into a wrong crowd, then to Vancouver on a drug deal that went sour. In Vancouver he began to take acting lessons at the Bruhanski Theatre Studio, and then moved to Niagara on the Lake where he starred in an "Up lifting" season at the Shaw Theatre Festival.

Before his acting career actually started six years ago, Callum had to struggle with an alcoholic depression, and it wasn't until a bar fight in the summer of 1993 where he picked a fight with a construction worker (yello are you nuts?!), who then punched his fist through a plate glass window, causing a shard of glass to drive into callum's left retina and with the fear of losing his eye sight, he decided that he had to change his life style. This incident occured during what Callum called the "Christ Year."

Callum had moved back to Vancouver and began to catch the attention of casting scouts, and went on to audition for many film and television projects. He received critical praise for his leading role in the CBC TV movie For Those Who Hunt The Wounded Down; in which his performance inspired critics to compare him to American icon James Dean, and garnered him a Gemini Award Nomination. Starring in Double Happiness with Sandra Oh got him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor Genie Award. Bruce McDonald's Hard Core Logo as Billy Talent is where he co-starred and became friends with Headstones lead singer, Hugh Dillion. He also starred in Don McKellar's critically acclaimed Canadian movie about the end of the world, Last Night , which has won a few Genie awards in early 1999, with Callum as Best Supporting Actor.

As for television, Callum has taking that by storm too and has appeared in episodes of Side Effects for which he was awarded a Gemini Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He has also starred in the series My Life As A Dog, a role for which he won the Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series. You can also spot him in the X Files, Outer Limits etc

For a full Filmography and TV-ography check out the Credits link from the main menu.

Callums hobbies include painting by himself, and he is partial to paintings by Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollack. In fact Callum has a tattoo on his right bicep which is to pay homage to Davis's paintings, it's of a logo of Champion Spark Plugs!!!

As for the love of his life well he is SINGLE (hourds of women running for Canada!) but his previous long time girlfriends was Canadian actress Babz Chula, who is 14 years older than him, was rumoured to be the one who got Callum seriously into acting. They met at a Starbucks in Vancouver during his drinking period, and they ended up living together for two years. He smokes like a trouper, and is a semi-vegetarian and likes to drink carrot juice (good for the eyes!). He owns a Bull Terrier pup named Alberta.

Callum at the moment is unbelievably busy with many, many projects since he finished Due South. There's David Cronenberg's new film eXistenZ, The Highwayman which is described as a "black comedic road movie" in which Jason Priestley is the executive producer of the $4.5-million production. Callum also appears in Foolish Heart, a new six-part series for CBC by Ken Finkleman, and in The Life Before This, a Canadian film directed by Jerry Ciccorittiri, which follows seven separate people's lives before a shooting they witness in a coffee shop. Bruce McDonald has also convinced CKR to come work with him again on a film called Dead Cat Bounce, in what CKR calls "a film about woe, self-deprecation and egos run amok." And of course there's the six new episodes of Twitch City. Also Callum has also shot an episode of a new series which will be premiering on ABC called Strange World, and if everything works out for the show; in the third episode called "Lullaby" he will make a guest appearance as a character called Vince. He also has Suspicious River out in 2000 and Memento with the delightful Guy Pearce and projects in Toronto so it is non-stop for the guy

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