LOCHLYN MUNRO - STAR-TV

Lochlyn Munro's childhood was a simple one: in winter, play hockey, in summertime, water-ski.  This abolescence of constantly being involved in athletics was partly s a result of his competitive personality and partly a result of living in the small town of Lac La Hache in British Columbia.

Lac La Hache is really small.  Like 500-people small.

"You don't have a whole bunch to do," he remembers.  "And everyone plays a sport.  I don't think it's always about being a natural athlete, I think it's just the fact that that's what you do.  It's just what we did."

When an injury playing junior hockey forced him to abandon his dream of making the NHL, Munro started looking around for a new direction.  The acting bug bit him when he went to see his older brother in a play at the University of British Columbia.

"I watched it and I thought, wow, that's a really cool form of entertainment and it looks like it could be kind of a cool job."

Now, Munroe has become one of Canada's hardest-working actors, garnering an encyclopedia-sized résumé of TV movies, guest appearances, and a smattering of feature film roles.  You may remember him from the early '90s Vancouver series Northwood or from his performance as a deranged frat boy in Dead Man on Campus, or maybe from his stint on the witch-infested hit show Charmed.  Either way, Munro has become a recognisable face, even though most people may not be sure where they recognise him from.

These days, audiences can recognise him even more easily: he appears in the Wayans brothers' horror spoof, Scary Movie and he co-stars in the yet-to-be-released Kill Me Later with co-Canuck Brendan Fehr.

"I had a lot of friends who would work in the business here (Canada) for two or three years, and then just GO," he says of his gradual career path.  "I hung out here, I did three TV series and I was happy with that.  I knew when the time was right for me to go.  I was patient." BACK TO THE TOP