Henry Czerny
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Henry Czerny (ʧeɾniː; born February 1959) is a Canadian actor.
Czerny was born to Polish parents in Toronto, Ontario.[1] His mother was a bakery worker and his father a welder.[2] Czerny received formal training at the National Theatre School in Montreal. After graduating in 1982, he went on to perform onstage across Canada, from Ottawa's National Arts Centre to Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and the Stratford Festival. By the late 1980s, he had established himself as a seasoned veteran of Canadian theatre--a long way from Lucky Larry, his first role. Czerny got his start acting in musicals at Humberside Collegiate Institute in Toronto, under the direction of Janet Keele.
He had prominent roles in the controversial The Boys of St. Vincent, Mission: Impossible, Clear and Present Danger, The Ice Storm and The Pink Panther, a comedy in which he plays "Yuri the Trainer who Trains". In 2005, he played Lieutenant Brooks in an episode of CSI, ("Jackpot"). His latest performance was in Conversations with God, about the true story of Neale Donald Walsch, played by Czerny who, at the lowest point in his life, asks God some very hard questions. In 2007, he appeared in the Showtime series The Tudors, playing the Duke of Norfolk.
