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- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Henry Czerny was born on February 8, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Mission: Impossible (1996), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and The Pink Panther (2006). He has been married to Claudine Cassidy since August 11, 2001. They have one child.
- SpouseClaudine Cassidy(August 11, 2001 - present) (divorced, 1 child)
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- Czerny voiced the crucial line, "Your mission, should you choose to accept it..." in the original film version of Mission: Impossible (1996), which starred Tom Cruise.
- Of Polish-Canadian descent, his father worked as a welder and mother worked in a bakery.
- Czerny and friend, fellow actor Michael Riley, drove across country with a three-foot-tall Barbie doll that they posed in different settings to create an 80-page "book".
- Czerny's first role: second shillelagh to Lucky Larry Leprechaun in a kindergarten play.
- Czerny got his start acting in musicals at Humberside Collegiate in Toronto, under the direction of Janet Keele. He later attended York University and the Canadian National Theatre School in Montreal (graduating in 1982). He then went on to perform onstage across the country, from Ottawa's National Arts Centre to Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and the Stratford Festival.
- The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
- My dad thought I'd end up in the poorhouse or in doughnut shops with a bag full of reviews.
- I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.
- I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
- [When asked if Czerny is drawn to playing very damaged characters]: Yes, I am. I always have been. I'm drawn to the layers underneath the facade. And this [Hollywood] is a great town to be in if you're after that, because we have people mutilating themselves beautifully to appear as though they've never had a difficult moment in their lives. And yet it's only when you explore those difficult moments that you actually get over the hurt. And so that's what fascinates me, is people who haven't dealt with their hurt.
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