Christian Campbell Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Christian Campbell Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Christian Bethune Campbell (born May 12, 1972) is a Canadian-American

stage and screen actor, writer, and photographer. He is best known for

his roles as Gabriel in the movie Trick, Greg Ivey in Big Love and on

stage as Jimmy Harper in the musical Reefer Madness. He is married to

actress America Olivo.Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario.

Campbell's mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga instructor and

psychologist from Amsterdam, Netherlands, who also ran a theatre in

Guelph, Ontario. His father, Gerry Campbell, a British immigrant to

Canada from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, taught high school

drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario â€" first at Westwood Secondary

School (now Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School), later at Lorne

Park Secondary School, and now at Erindale Secondary School.

Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in the

Netherlands and his paternal grandparents were also performers. On his

mother's side, Campbell descends from Sephardi Jews who immigrated to

the Netherlands and converted to Catholicism.Campbell's parents

divorced when he was three years old. His siblings are actress Neve

Campbell, actor Alex Campbell, and Damian McDonald. He and his sister,

Neve, resided largely with their father (who received custody of the

two), with regular periods at their mother's home. Born into an acting

family (his maternal grandparents having been actors in Amsterdam) and

his father an acting teacher, Campbell began training at an early age.

He was acting professionally by the age of fourteen and attended

Claude Watson School for the Arts in Toronto, Ontario.Campbell starred

in the gay-themed romantic comedy Trick in 1999. The feature film was

a Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated film. It grossed the most

per-screen average for a gay-themed film at the time. In celebration

of the fifteenth anniversary of the picture, Campbell spoke of the

social climate at the time and how he, a straight actor, had taken on

a gay role. "Having been in that movie... opened up a community," he

said. "The gay community was incredibly supportive of me."
Christian Campbell Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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