Biography
Callum Keith Rennie is a Canadian actor known for a multitude of roles.
His breakthrough role was as punk rocker Billy Talent in Bruce McDonald’s music mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1996), alongside Hugh Dillon and John Pyper-Ferguson. He would go on to win a Genie Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the Don McKellar film Last Night (1998). He has also appeared in David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999), Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000), The Butterfly Effect (2004), Blade Trinity (2004), The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), Warcraft (2016), and Jigsaw (2017).
On television, he had guest roles in Highlander: The Series, The Commish, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Forever Knight, and La Femme Nikita. In 1997, he landed the starring role as Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the third and fourth seasons of the Canadian crime comedy drama, Due South. In 1998, he appeared in the CBC cult series Twitch City, which was created by Bruce McDonald and Don McKellar. He is perhaps best known to sci-fi fans as Leoben Conoy, the human Cylon Number 2, on the Syfy channel’s Battlestar Galactica. His other roles include Lew Ashby on Californication, Rick Felder on The Killing, Gary Connell on The Man in the High Castle, Karl Malus on Jessica Jones (2018), and, most recently, Commander Rayner on Star Trek: Discovery.
He won a Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for his portrayal of Detective Ben Sullivan on Shattered, and a second Genie Award for the film Normal (2007). He has also won four Leo Awards.