Career

Early life and education

Czerny was born on 8 February 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the youngest of three children to Polish-Canadian parents. "Czerny" means "Black" in Polish. His father worked as a welder, and his mother, who still resides in Toronto, worked in a bakery.

Czerny attended college at York University

Acting career

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. Czerny is friends with Dana Delany and played the role of her husband on the film, Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story and her brother in the made-for-television movie, For Hope.

He had prominent roles in The Boys of St. Vincent, Mission: Impossible, Clear and Present Danger, The Ice Storm and The Michelle Apartments. In the 2006 comedy The Pink Panther, he plays the main antagonist "Yuri the Trainer who Trains". He plays Lieutenant Brooks in "Jackpot", a 2005 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In Conversations with God, about the true story of Neale Donald Walsch, Czerny plays Walsch. In 2007, Czerny appeared in the Showtime series The Tudors, playing the Duke of Norfolk. Czerny also appeared in the Canadian television show Flashpoint in 2008 and the American science fiction drama Falling Skies in 2011. Czerny co-starred with Sigourney Weaver in the 2009 Lifetime movie Prayers for Bobby.

In 2011, Czerny was cast opposite Madeleine Stowe, as the powerful patriarch Conrad Grayson, a series regular role, in ABC soap-type series Revenge. His character was stabbed at the end of season 3 and in the first episode of the fourth season it was revealed he had died. He later returned to the series in unseen flashback sequences in one season 4 episode.

Personal life

Czerny is married to Claudine Cassidy and they have a son, Cameron. Before his marriage, he once dated Dana Delany, with whom he had worked on films.

Besides acting, his interests include photography, travel, crafting, and carpentry.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Night Heat	David Marks	1 episode
1988	The Taming of the Shrew	Lucentio	TV Movie
1989	Friday the 13th	Joe	1 episode, Season 3: "Hate On Your Dial"
1991	Katts and Dog	Gregory O'Toole	1 episode
1990-1992	Street Legal	Christopher Szabo	2 episodes
1992	The Boys of St. Vincent	Brother Peter Lavin	Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
1992	The Sound and the Silence	Casey Baldwin	TV Movie
1992	Buried on Sunday	Nelson
1992	Deadly Matrimony	Rick Peterson	TV Movie
1992	A Town Torn Apart	Fred Burham	TV Movie
1993	Lifeline to Victory	Petty Officer Lang	TV Movie
1993	The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later	Peter Lavin	TV Movie
1993	I Love a Man in Uniform	Joseph Riggs
1994	Trial at Fortitude Bay	Daniel Metz	TV Movie
1994	Cold Sweat	Sean Mathieson
1994	Ultimate Betrayal	Ed Rodgers	TV Movie
1994	Clear and Present Danger	Robert Ritter
1994	Anchor Zone	Lawson Hughes
1995	Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story	Bill Sanger	TV Movie
1995	When Night Is Falling	Martin
1995	The Michelle Apartments	Alex
1995	Jenipapo	Michael Coleman
1995	Notes from Underground	The Underground Man
1995	Johnston... Johnston	Johnston
1996	Mission: Impossible	Eugene Kittridge
1996	For Hope	Ken Altman	TV Movie
1997	Promise the Moon	Royal Leckner	TV Movie Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
1997	The Ice Storm	George Clair
1998	The Girl Next Door	Arthur Bradley	TV Movie
1998	Glory & Honor	Robert Peary	TV Movie
1998	My Father's Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story	Sam Reese Sheppard	TV Movie
1999	External Affairs	Danny Jackman	TV Movie Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
1999	Kayla	Asa Robinson
1999	Visions of Death (After Alice)	Harvey
1999	P.T. Barnum	Greenwood	TV Movie
2000	Cement	Truman
2000	Possessed	Fr. Raymond McBride	TV Movie
2000	Range of Motion	Ted Merrick	TV Movie
2001	Haven	Ernst	TV Movie
2001	Come l'America	Steven	TV Movie
2001	Further Tales of the City	Luke	TV miniseries
2002	The Pact	Michael	TV Movie
2002	Salem Witch Trials	Rev. Samuel Parris	TV Movie
2003	Klepto	Ivan
2003	The Failures	Frank Kyle
2003	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Lieutenant Alan Brooks	1 episode
2004	The Limit	Denny
2005	Chaos	Capt. Martin Jenkins
2005	The Eleventh Hour	Max Mallett	1 episode Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role Dramatic Series
2005	Kojak	Robert Mercher	1 episode
2005	The Circle	Rick
2005	The Exorcism of Emily Rose	Dr. Briggs
2006	The Oakley Seven	Mr. Whitney
2006	The Pink Panther	Yuri
2006	Ghost Whisperer	Matt Mallinson	1 episode
2006	Conversations with God	Neale Donald Walsch / God - voice
2006	Fido	Mr. Bottoms
2006	Three Moons Over Milford	Carl Davis	2 episodes
2007	The Fifth Patient	Gerard Pinker
2007	The Tudors	Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk	10 episodes
2008	The Russell Girl	Howard Morrisey	TV Movie
2008	Mayerthorpe	Corporal Alex Stanton	TV Movie Nominated - Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series
2008	Flashpoint	Jack Swanson	1 episode
2008	Monk	Aaron Larkin	1 episode
2009	Prayers for Bobby	Robert Griffith	TV Movie
2009	Christmas Dreams	Norman	TV Movie
2010	The Cult	Nathan	TV Movie
2010	Ice Castles	Marcus	Video
2010	Less Than Kind	David Rosen	4 episodes
2010	The A-Team	Director McCready
2011	Falling Skies	Lt. Terry Clayton	2 episodes
2011-14	Revenge	Conrad Grayson	Season 1-3 (Series regular, 66 episodes) Season 4 (Guest star; 1 episode)
2015	Supergirl	Winslow Schott, Sr./ Toyman	Guest Role
2016	Quantico	Matthew Keyes	Recurring Role

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