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David Hewlett
# born: April 18, 1968 in Redhill, Surrey, England, UK # oldest of five, with four younger sisters (two of which are named Kate and Moyra, I do believe Moyra is the one who is a graphic artist and occasionally works with at Daryl Media) # was married to actress Soo Garay (2000-2004) # attended high school with Vincenzo Natali and has appeared in three of his films (Cube, Cypher, Nothing) # dropped out of Toronto's St. George's College Choir School for Boys in Grade 12 to pursue acting and computer careers simultaneously # self-taught actor and computer geek # self-proclaimed computer nerd # darkyl media (www.darkyl.com) - webdesign company for tv and film industry, named for the horse he learned to ride on as a child # spent two years as the resident computer expert at Voice-Tel Canada # two Gemini nominations Best Performance in a Featured Supporting Role (Canadian equivalent to Emmies) for his role as Grant Jansky on Traders # originally appeared on Stargate SG-1 as a guest star in the episode "48 Hours" and was asked to return for the two part episode "Redemption" the next season # when Stargate: Atlantis was being developed, McKay's character was originally going to be Dr. Ingram, but was eventually replaced by McKay and David was asked to return and reprise his role as Dr. Rodney McKay as a leading character in the new show.
FromSCI-FI.COM Most people can't claim to be both a successful actor and a successful Internet entrepreneur. Clearly, David Hewlett isn't most people. Born in Redhill, Surrey, UK, and raised in Canada, Hewlett a regular on the TV series Traders and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and the reluctant hero, Worth, of the art-house hit Cube runs Darkyl Media, a small designer of Web sites for the film and TV industry. (One client, coincidentally, was a company called Atlantis Films.) He is also a founder of fusefilm.com, a Web networking forum for filmmakers. The eldest of six children, Hewlett had gotten his first computer, a Commodore 64, while in his mid-teens, and became a self-described "computer nerd." But his acting side had already taken hold as well, and while in high school at Toronto's St. George's College Choir School for Boys appeared in 8mm and 16mm student films by classmate Vincenzo Natali, the future writer-director of Cube. Hewlett dropped out of school his senior year in order to pursue both computer and acting careers. He appeared in the low-budget horror films The Darkside (1987) and Pin (1988) and guested on the syndicated series My Secret Identity and Friday the 13th. Shortly afterward he found himself co-starring in the ensemble cast of director John Boorman's Where the Heart Is alongside the formidable likes of Uma Thurman, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis, Dabney Coleman and Joanna Cassidy. In 1996, Hewlett began what is perhaps his best-known role until now, playing quirky computer whiz Grant Jansky on the hit Canadian series Traders, earning two Gemini Award nominations the Canadian Emmy-equivalent for his work. In a case of art imitating life, Hewlett before this had spent two years as resident computer expert at the messaging network Voice-Tel Canada. In 2001, after a spate of Canadian movies and telefilms including Scanners II: The New Order and Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel with Sherilyn Fenn, Hewlett and his wife, actress Soo Garay, moved to Los Angeles. Hewlett had a high-profile role in an episode of ER, playing a father who wants the doctors to euthanize his severely handicapped five-year-old son, but ironically he's made more of a mark back in Canada appearing in three episodes of the Vancouver-shot Stargate SG-1 as astrophysicist Dr. Ronald McKay, now of the Stargate Atlantis team. Hewlett, who won a Golden Sheaf Award for best actor for his performance as a neurotic security guard in Natali's 1997 short "Elevated," recently reunited with the director on the film Cypher, playing opposite Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu.
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