A striking, blue-eyed, dark-haired actor of stage and TV, Czerny came to the attention of American reviewers with a chilling but all-too-human portrayal of a tormented clergyman who molests and terrorizes a young orphan in his charge in "The Boys of St Vincent" (CBC, 1993). This profoundly disturbing movie was made for Canadian TV, shown theatrically in selected US theaters and aired on A&E in 1995. Though quite handsome and youthful, Czerny (pronounced CHAIR-nee) convinces as a middle-aged man whose smooth respectable surface belies his deep internal corruption.

Czerny graduated from the