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Apr 16, 2024 · While chasing two criminals in the fifth season opener, " Red Directive ," Burnham comes across Captain Rayner and the U.S.S. Antares who is also hot on their trail and unwilling to let Moll and L'ak go as easily as the Discovery captain. StarTrek.com had the opportunity to speak with actor Callum Keith Rennie on making first contact with Star ...
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Callum Keith Rennie’s casting in Star Trek: Discovery follows his success as the ambiguous, obsessive Leoben Conoy in Syfy's Battlestar Galactica created by Ronald D. Moore.Introduced in the ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Callum Keith Rennie intriguingly shakes up Star Trek: Discovery season 5 as Rayner, the former Captain of the USS Antares who joins the USS Discovery as the new First Officer. Although at odds with Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Rayner accepts her offer to become Discovery's new Number One, so he can continue to hunt the ...
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Callum Keith Rennie (born 14 September 1960; age 63) is an actor who played Rayner in the fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery.
Rennie is probably best known to science fiction fans for his recurring role as Leoben Conroy in Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica from 2003 to 2009, where he appeared alongside James Callis, Kate Vernon, Rekha Sharma, Dean Stockwell, Rick Worthy, Amanda Plummer, Nana Visitor, and Mark A. Sheppard.
Rennie was born in Sunderland, England and moved to Edmonton, Canada with his family when he was four. He dropped out of college and worked odd jobs in Toronto and Vancouver before venturing into acting at twenty-five. He began his acting career in stage productions, but also ventured into indie films and smaller television guest roles. He gained recognition in the 1993 LGBT-themed experimental short film Frank's Cock and the 1994 independent drama film Double Happiness, for which he was nominated for a Genie Award.
During this period, Rennie appeared in episodes of series such as The X-Files (with Daniel Benzali and Roger Cross, directed by Rob Bowman), The Outer Limits (with Len Cariou and Chris Sarandon, narrated by Kevin Conway), Highlander (with Hagan Beggs), Forever Knight, and Nikita.
Rennie gained international fame by co-starring in the third and fourth seasons of the popular Canadian crime comedy drama series Due South as Detective Stanley "Ray" Kowalski from 1997 to 1999. Kenneth Welsh, Ron Canada, Barbara Eve Harris, Shawn Doyle, Katherine Trowell, and Milton Barnes appeared in guest roles during Rennie's tenure on the show.
Rennie is also known for his recurring role as record producer Lew Ashby on the Showtime series Californication from 2008 to 2013, starring Pamela Adlon, with Brian Posehn and Mädchen Amick, and his role as Gary Connell in the second season of the Amazon Prime alternate history series The Man in the High Castle (2016), starring Chelah Horsdal and Cary-Hiroyuki, with Rick Worthy, Kenneth Tigar, and Hiro Kanagawa.
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•"Red Directive"
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Rennie in 2011. Born. September 14, 1960. Sunderland, England. Occupation. Actor. Years active. 1989–present. Callum Keith Rennie is a Canadian actor who started his career in Canadian film and television projects, where his portrayal of Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the television series Due South was his first international success.
Apr 17, 2024 · Star Trek: Discovery's Callum Keith Rennie Shows a New Side of Starfleet. New in Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 is Rayner, a Kellerun Starfleet veteran who started the season captaining the USS Antares -- then nearly got early retirement after brashly endangering thousands. Given a second chance by the once-rebellious Captain Michael Burnham as ...
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Apr 11, 2024 · Callum Keith Rennie is okay with being an outsider. The veteran sci-fi actor — probably best known for his role as the Cylon Leoben in Battlestar Galactica — has crashed the Star Trek ...
