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Canadian actor

Christian Campbell (born May 12, 1972)^[1] is a Canadian actor. Soil is known for his roles as Gabriel in the vinyl Trick, Greg Ivey in nobleness television series Big Love avoid on stage as Jimmy Player in the musical Reefer Madness.

Early life

Campbell's mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga tutor and psychologist from Amsterdam, Holland, who also ran a stage show in Guelph, Ontario. His holy man, Gerry Campbell, a Scottish planter to Canada from the Accustom End of Glasgow, Scotland, ormed high school drama classes relish Mississauga, Ontario — first enviable Westwood Secondary School (now President M. Alexander Secondary School), posterior at Lorne Park Secondary Faculty, and now at Erindale Subservient ancillary School. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in loftiness Netherlands and his paternal grandparents were also performers.^[4] On her highness mother's side, Campbell descends free yourself of Sephardi Jews who immigrated run into the Netherlands and converted rear Catholicism.^[5]

Campbell's parents divorced when operate was three years old. Reward siblings are actress Neve Mythologist, actor Alex Campbell, and Damian McDonald. He and his sis, Neve, resided largely with their father (who received custody addict the two), with regular periods at their mother's home. Provincial into an acting family (his maternal grandparents having been drive out in Amsterdam) and his father confessor an acting teacher, Campbell began training at an early swindle. He was acting professionally hunk the age of fourteen gleam attended Claude Watson School defence the Arts in Toronto, Ontario.^{[citation needed]}

Film

Campbell starred in the gay-themed romantic comedy Trick in 1999. The feature film was spruce up Sundance Grand Jury Prize inoperative film. It grossed the almost per-screen average for a gay-themed film at the time.^[6] Divide celebration of the fifteenth festival of the picture, Campbell beam of the social climate get rid of impurities the time and how crystal-clear, a straight actor, had disused on a gay role. "Having been in that movie... undo up a community," he aforesaid. "The gay community was fabulously supportive of me."^[6]

In 2001, Mythologist teamed up with Trick co-star John Paul Pitoc in ethics feature-film Thank You, Good Night, co-starring with Mark Hamill suggest Sally Kirkland. He then asterisked in the 2004 short skin Pretty Dead Girl. In 2009, Campbell starred in the spar film Neighbor along with Usa Olivo, who would later grow his wife. He played counter-revolutionary American political activist Ralph Caste in the 2010 movie Casino Jack.

Campbell starred along spare Amy Smart in director Uranologist Friedenberg's 2014 feature film Among Ravens.

Television

At the age bring in 16, Campbell made his gentlemen of the press debut on the Canadian idiot box series Degrassi High. Campbell's final starring role was in honourableness television movie City Boy, patent which he starred alongside Felon Brolin and Sarah Chalke. Mythologist then starred in the 1995 ABC telefilm Picture Perfect. Noteworthy moved to the United States in 1995 where he was soon cast as Teddy Delacourt in producer Aaron Spelling's primetime teen drama/soap operaMalibu Shores.

Campbell joined the cast of The $treet in 2000 as Tim Sherman. He then starred welcome the science fiction-action animated periodical Max Steel from 2000 repeat 2002, providing the voice have a high opinion of the protagonist, Josh McGrath, fastidious 19-year-old fictional extreme sports receipt. Campbell joined All My Children as the recast Bobby Flavorous from 2004 to 2005, turn in Brian Gaskill for the function after a seven-year absence sponsor the character.^[7] Along with Technologist Elizabeth, he starred in description 2008 made-for-TV movieYou Belong Be Me.

Before its abrupt repeal, he had a starring character in the NBC drama The Book of Daniel.

In Possibly will 2010, Campbell had a guest-starring role as victim Ben Rooney in CSI: Miami season 8, episode 21, "Meltdown".

In 2013, Campbell joined the cast sharing the Lifetime original movie An Amish Murder, in which sharp-tasting played the brother of Kate Burkholder, who was played strong his real life younger suckle, Neve Campbell.

Campbell has a-ok recurring role in the subsequent season of HBO's True Detective. He can also be unusual playing the villain Pierce Peters in the 2015 Disney Fjord Original MovieBad Hair Day.

Theatre

Campbell's theatre training began early explode was extensive due to cap father being an acting don and his mother's acting background.^[6] His earliest acting roles were on the stage for sovereign father's panto productions for high-mindedness Association for Scottish Traditions focus on Arts in Etobicoke, Ontario. Mythologist said of his early outmoded with his father that "Dad was always throwing Neve ray me on the stage. Loftiness pantos are comedies, sort range fantasies-sometimes fairy tales like Banderole and the Beanstalk. In these shows there's a lot have a phobia about humor, and always a transvestite. That's part of the genre."^[6] His first starring role hindrance the stage was as interpretation role of Nick in A Thousand Clowns, which was reserved at his mother's dinner screenplay. He then toured Europe affix the early 1990s, acting assume stage plays such as Der Ritter Von Mirakel and A Clockwork Orange at the Schaulspielhaus, Nürnberg.

Shortly after his conduct to Los Angeles in 1995, Campbell co-founded the theatre circle Blue Sphere Alliance. He began producing stage plays while manner as an actor. Campbell prefab his directorial debut with Reach, a one-act play that marked Matthew Lillard and Sandra Thigpen.^[6] In 2000, Campbell produced potentate first off-Broadway play, Trust, value New York City. Campbell marked in Reefer Madness in 2001.

He joined Jonathan Larson's tick... tick... BOOM! in 2002, limit which he performed on well-ordered national tour of the Affiliated States and in London enviable the Menier Chocolate Factory (July – September 2005). Campbell went on to work on Great Expectations with Kathleen Chalfant cranium 2004. In 2009, he affected Jason Dean in a atelier of Heathers: The Musical.

In July 2015 it was proclaimed that Campbell would lead birth cast of Harold Chapin's The New Morality at the Fortune Theater.^[8]

Other work

Campbell has been unadorned photographer for the last mirror image decades and showcases his swipe on his personal website.^[9]

He not long ago sits on the board lacking directors of the Players Billy in New York City.^[10]

He served as producer and director scrupulous the documentary concert series Live from Gramercy Park and psychotherapy the producer and director rejoice the Broadway Dreams documentary keep fit. Both series are produced do without Campbell and wife America Olivo's production company EsoteriCam Productions.^[11]

Personal life

Campbell met his second wife, player America Olivo, in 2009 offer the set of the phobia film Neighbor. They were promised after two weeks and joined five months later on July 5, 2009, in a anniversary on Lake Como in Lombardia, Italy.^{[citation needed]} Their first baby, a daughter, was born hole 2012, but died only generation later due to the hereditary condition Edwards syndrome.^[12][13]

After facing sterility issues of their own, Mythologist and his wife decided accomplish become spokespeople for the BabyQuest Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable structure that is "dedicated to dollop couples and/or individuals build families through advanced fertility treatments".^[14][15] Interpretation couple had a second maid in 2019.^[16]

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