Trivia

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.

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Filming Notes from Underground (1995). (October 1994)