Calum Worthy
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| Calum Worthy | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 28, 1991 Victoria, British Columbia |
| Years active | 2001 - present |
Calum Worthy (born January 28, 1991) is a Canadian actor. He began his film career in 2000 at the age of nine, and has appeared in such projects as Dr. Dolittle 3, I Was A Rat, Out of Order, and Psych.
Worthy was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and lives and goes to school there - commuting to auditions and for work in the film and tv industry. He decided that he wanted to become an actor at the age of four, after watching Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. A triple threat, he started training in voice and dance and began performing in theatrical plays and musicals, at the age of 5. When he was 9 he was accepted into the Tarlington Training professional children's program in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he studied for 3 years. He made his screen debut as a guest star in Fox's Night Visions (directed by Bill Pullman). At the age of 10 he booked his first leading role, starring in the BBC mini-series I Was A Rat with Brenda Fricker and Tom Conti.
In 2003, he worked on the six episode HBO mini-series Out of Order, playing a young Eric Stoltz. Later that year, he booked a lead in the comedy National Lampoons Thanksgiving Reunion for which he won a 2004 Young Artist Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Young Actor in a Television Production". He also was nominated for another Young Artist Award in 2006 for "Best Performance in a Short Film" for the short film When Jesse Was Born. In 2004, he landed a recurring role in the ABC tv series The Days and made a guest appearance on Stargate Atlantis. In 2005, Worthy worked on the third in instalment of the Dr. Dolittle series, Dr. Dolittle 3 and booked a recurring role on the Fox television show Reunion. In 2006, he guest starred on Kyle XY, Psych, the tv-movie Cross Roads: The Story of Forgiveness, The Last Mimzy and Deck The Halls. In 2007, he returned to the television show Psych as a different character, worked on the feature Mulligans, the tv-movie Second Sight, and the short film Smile (directed by Julia Kwan).
Currently, Calum Worthy is working on the tv movie Run For The Cure, a short film entitled Valentine and is in Australia, where he is the star of a new television series called Stormworld. He is also nominated for a 2008 Young Artist Award for "Best Recurring Role in a Television Series" in Psych.
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Calum Worthy is also an accomplished pianist and composer. At the age of 11, he won the Canadian National Young Composer Award. He is an emerging film maker. In 2007, he collaborated with Chelsea Kanstrup in producing, filming and directing the behind-the-scenes featurette and EPK for Mulligans.
[edit] References
Calum Worthy at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] Filmography
| 2001 | Night Visions | series
mini series |
| 2003 | Out of Order
National Lampoon Thanksgiving Family Reunion |
mini series
tv movie |
| 2004 | The Days | series
series |
| 2005 | Reunion | series |
| 2006 | Dr. Dolittle 3 | movie
series series |
| 2007 | Mulligans
Second Sight |
movie
series tv movie |
| 2008 | Left Coast
Stormworld |
pilot
short series |
