Callum Keith Rennie (born 14 September 1960) is a British and Canadian actor. He graduated from Strathcona High School, where he met and befriended Bruce McCulloch from the Kids in the Hall. He dropped out of college and took up all sorts of odd jobs, leaving Edmonton for brief stays in Vancouver and Toronto before eventually settling in Vancouver. As for his part in Due South, it has been said that his "disaffected intensity and hungover good looks" added an edge to the series. He also appeared as Russian mobster Vladimir Laitanan in the eighth season of 24.
In Fall 2010, he played the lead role of Detective Brian Sullivan on Shattered, a series about a detective who suffers from multiple personality disorder. It aired in Canada on Global TV, followed by airings in other countries, though not the United States. Rennie received critical acclaim for his performance, and in 2011 won the Gemini and Leo awards for the role. Shattered was not renewed for a second season.
His 2010 appearances on the big screen included the Canadian film Gunless, a Western comedy starring Paul Gross, as a bounty hunter on the trail of Gross' Montana Kid. He also reprised his role as Billy Tallent for a short appearance in Trigger. Trigger is part of several films set in the same universe as Hard Core Logo, directed again by Bruce McDonald; this one, starring Molly Parker and Tracy Wright, written by Daniel MacIvor, is about the reunion of two women who used to be in an alternative rock band together. Rennie also served as one of Trigger's executive producers. Another film, Faith, Fraud & Minimum Wage, based on Canadian playwright Josh MacDonald's play Halo, has been completed and is waiting for release.
Rennie made a number of television appearances in 2011, including a supporting role on The Killing as Rick Felder, Detective Sarah Linden's fiancé. He also guest starred on Alphas, CSI: Miami and Rookie Blue.
Rennie was also cast as a series regular on the NBC series The Firm. He plays Ray McDeere, the brother of the principal character, Mitch McDeere, played by Josh Lucas. It began airing as a midseason replacement for the 2011–12 season.
In 2015, Rennie was cast as a main character for the second season of Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. He joined the cast in the role of Gary Connell, leader of the West Coast Resistance movement.
Personal life
Rennie likes painting and admires abstract expressionist artists such as Basquiat, Motherwell and Pollock (the Champion spark-plug logo tattoo on his right arm is an homage to Stuart Davis). and is an avid golfer.
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Television
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|+List of television appearances and roles
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! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Role
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| 1993
| Highlander: The Series
| Neal
| Episode: "An Eye for an Eye"
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| rowspan="3" | 1994
| Paris or Somewhere
| Christy Mahon
| Television film
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| Lonesome Dove: The Series
| Harry Price
| Episode: "Long Shot"
|-
| data-sort-value="Commish, The" | The Commish
| Konichek
| Episode: "Security"
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| 1994–95
| data-sort-value="X-Files, The" | The X-Files
| Tommy / Cemetery Groundskeeper
| Episode: "Lazarus"<br/>Episode: "Fresh Bones"
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| rowspan="10" | 1995
| Little Criminals
| Kostash
| rowspan="2" | Television film
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| Falling from the Sky: Flight 174
| Pumper
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| data-sort-value="Marshal, The" | The Marshal
| Cal
| Episode: "Protection"
|-
| data-sort-value="Outer Limits, The" | The Outer Limits
| Carlito
| Episode: "Corner of the Eye"
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| When the Dark Man Calls
| Bob Levesh
| rowspan="3" | Television film
|-
| data-sort-value="Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky, The" | The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky
| Big Hat
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| '
| Driver
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| Forever Knight
| Bruce Spencer
| Episode: "Outside the Lines"
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| Side Effects
| Armando
| Episode: "Snap, Crackle, Pop!"
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| Highlander: The Series
| Tyler King
| Episode: "The Innocent"
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| 1995–96
| My Life as a Dog
| Johnny Johansson
| 22 episodes
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| 1996
| For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
| Jerry Bines
| Television film
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1997
| Viper
| William T. Lennox
| Episode: "Wheelman"
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| La Femme Nikita
| Gray Wellman
| Episode: "Gray"<br/>Episode: "Choice"
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| Tricks
| Adam
| Television film
|-
| 1997–99
| Due South
| Detective Stanley Raymond Kowalski
| 26 episodes
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| 1998–2000
| Twitch City
| Newbie
| 8 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1999
| Strange World
| Vince
| Episode: "Lullaby"
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| Foolish Heart
| Ross
| Episode: "Breathless"
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| 1999–2001
| Da Vinci's Inquest
| Detective Bob Marlowe
| 7 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2000
| Murder Seen
| Detective Keegan
| Television film
|-
| Nature Boy
| Eden Abez
| Television short
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2001
| Trapped
| Anthony Bellio
| Television film
|-
| Dice
| Egon Schwimmer
| Miniseries
|-
| rowspan="6" | 2002
| Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
| Inspector Wood
| Television film
|-
| Bliss
| Mike
| Episode: "Six Days"
|-
| Dark Angel
| Sheriff Lamar
| Episode: "Exposure"
|-
| Mutant X
| Zack Lockhart
| Episode: "Ex Marks the Spot"
|-
| data-sort-value="Dead Zone, The" | The Dead Zone
| Max Cassidy
| Episode: "Dinner with Dana"
|-
| data-sort-value="Eleventh Hour, The" | The Eleventh Hour
| Mark Mitchum
| Episode: "The Source"
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2003
| Tru Calling
| Elliot Winters
| Episode: "Pilot"
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| Battlestar Galactica
| Leoben Conoy
| Miniseries
|-
| rowspan="4" | 2004
| Touching Evil
| Mike Espy
| Episode: "Memorial"
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| Kingdom Hospital
| Earl Candleton
| Episodes: "Finale" & "Butterfingers"
|-
| H<sub>2</sub>O
| Don Pritchard / Lieutenant Daniel Holt
| rowspan="2" |Television film
|-
| data-sort-value="Five People You Meet in Heaven, The" | The Five People You Meet in Heaven
| Eddie's Father
|-
| 2004–2009
| Battlestar Galactica
| Leoben Conoy
| 20 episodes
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2005
| Whiskey Echo
| Dr. Rollie Saunders
| Television film
|-
| Supernatural
| Roy
| Episode: "Wendigo"
|-
| Painkiller Jane
| Secretary of Defense Donnie Mitchell
| rowspan="2" | Television film
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2006
| data-sort-value="Hunters, The" | The Hunters
| Quin Hunter
|-
| data-sort-value="L Word, The" | The L Word
| Danny Wilson
| 3 episodes
|-
| Smallville
| Tyler McKnight
| Episode: "Fragile"
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2007
| Men in Trees
| Jeff
| Episode: "Chemical Reactions"
|-
| Bionic Woman
| Victor Booth
| Episode: "The List"
|-
| Tin Man
| Zero
| Miniseries
|-
| 2008
| Of Murder and Memory
| Leonard
| Television film
|-
| 2008–2013
| Californication
| Lew Ashby
| 14 episodes
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2009
| Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
| Leoben Conoy
| Television film
|-
| Harper's Island
| John Wakefield
| 4 episodes
|-
| Harper's Globe
| John Wakefield
| Episode: "There Is Only One Way Out on Harper's Island" & "Surviving Harper's Island"
|-
| 2009–10
| FlashForward
| Jeff Slingerland / Dr. Maurice Raynaud
| Episode: "The Gift" & "Course Correction"
|-
| 2010
| 24
| Vladimir Laitanan
| 3 episodes
|-
| 2010–11
| Shattered
| Detective Ben Sullivan
| 13 episodes
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2011
| Alphas
| Don Wilson
| Episode: "Pilot"<br/>Episode: "Anger Management"
|-
| Rookie Blue
| Jamie Brennan
| 3 episodes
|-
| CSI: Miami
| Jack Toller
| Episode: "Mayday"<br/>Episode: "Countermeasures"
|-
| 2011–12
| data-sort-value="Killing, The" | The Killing
| Rick Felder
| 7 episodes
|-
| 2012
| data-sort-value="Firm, The" | The Firm
| Ray McDeere
| 22 episodes
|-
| 2015–16
| Longmire
| Walker Browning
| 6 episodes
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2016
| Man Seeking Woman
| McQuaid
| Episode: "Fuse"
|-
| Legends of Tomorrow
| Jon Valor
| Episode: "Marooned"
|-
| data-sort-value="Man in the High Castle, The" | The Man in the High Castle
| Gary Connell
| 8 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1997
| rowspan="2" |Gemini Award
|Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Dramatic Series
|Side Effects
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|Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series
|My Life as a Dog
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|1998
|Gemini Award
|Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Miniseries
|For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
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| rowspan="2" |1999
|Gemini Award
|Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
|Due South
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|Genie Award
|Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
|Last Night
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|2000
|Canadian Comedy Award
|Film – Performance – Male
|Last Night
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|2001
|Leo Award
|Best Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama
|Suspicious River
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| rowspan="2" |2003
|Vancouver Film Critics Circle
|Best Actor – Canadian Film
|Flower & Garnet
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|Leo Award
|Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama
|Flower & Garnet
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| rowspan="2" |2004
|Leo Award
|Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama
|Falling Angels
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|Vancouver Film Critics Circle
|Best Actor – Canadian Film
|Falling Angels
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|2007
|Leo Award
|Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama
|Unnatural & Accidental
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|2008
|Leo Award
|Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama
|Normal
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|2009
|Genie Award
|Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
|Normal
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| rowspan="3" |2011
|Gemini Award
|Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
|Shattered
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|Leo Award
|Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series
|Shattered, episode: "Out of Sorrow"
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|Genie Award
|Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
|Gunless
|
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|2015
|Leo Award
|Best Guest Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series
|Motive, episode: "Pitfall"
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