Early life & early career

Cal Rein was born Carlo Giardina and grew up in the country town of Traralgon in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

  and is of Italian descent. At age 9, he spent a year in United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and attended primary school in Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, 16 miles south of Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated as a town under its original Indian name, Mattabeseck. It received its present name in 1653. In 1784, the central...

. At age 12, he gathered some school buddies to make a short film about the Kelly Gang for a school project. Playing the role of Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly

Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded cop killer — others, however, consider him to be a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class.Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish...

, he knew from that day he wanted to be an actor. He left high school at the age of 16 and attended Pivot Point Hair College and eventually settled in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

.

Rein opened his first hair salon in 1989 called Wings Mens Hairdressing in South Yarra for a couple of years then worked in broadcasting at Fox FM

FOX FM (Melbourne)

Fox FM is a radio station that serves the Melbourne, Australia, broadcasting on the FM band at a frequency of 101.9 MHz. Licensed to Mount Dandenong, Victoria, the station is currently owned by the Austereo Radio Network. The station's transmitter is located on the ATV-10 transmission tower on top...

, Gold 104.3 and Mix 101.1. In 1996 he worked at Warner Bros. Movie World

Warner Bros. Movie World

Warner Bros. Movie World is a popular movie related theme park on the Gold Coast in Australia. It is owned and operated by Village Roadshow since the take over from Time Warner and is the only movie related park in Australia...

 and went on to host a variety of events around Australia and was the official host for the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Australia Pageant.

Rein was a contestant on the dating game show, "Blind Date" aka Perfect Match

Perfect Match (Australian game show)

Perfect Match is an Australian dating game show based on the format of The Dating Game. Perfect Match was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation.It originally aired on Network Ten for 30 minutes most weekdays from 5:30pm between 1984 and 1989...

 in 1991 and was chosen as a date. Hosted by Greg Evans

Greg Evans (television host)

Greg Evans is an Australian radio and television host.In the 1970s he was the highly popular host of the drive time slot of radio station 3XY, with his program being the number one rated show in 27 of the 28 ratings surveys taken.He was nominated three times for a Gold Logie award...

 and Nicky Buckley

Nicky Buckley

Nicole Maree Louise Buckley-Bingham is an Australian television presenter and model.-Sale of the Century:Buckley broke into television in her role as co-host of Sale of the Century in the mid-late 1990s...

.

He studied acting under well respected Australian actors including John Orcsik

John Orcsik

John Orcsik is an Australian actor of Hungarian descent.In the early 1970s he appeared in soap opera Bellbird, and played various guest roles in the Crawford Productions police dramas Homicide, Division 4 and Matlock Police...

, Ken James

Ken James

Ken James may refer to:* Ken James , played Tony Wild in The Box and later played Mike O'Brien in Sons and Daughters...

 and Kim Krejus.

In 2002 Rein opened another hair salon in South Yarra called Cal Rein Mens Hair and became a celebrity men's hairdresser appearing on Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

's Australian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 lifestyle show "Beyond The Boundary" hosted by Christi Malthouse

Christi Malthouse

Christi Malthouse is an Australian television personality.Malthouse was a journalist for Network Ten and is the daughter of Mick Malthouse, former Australian rules football player and former coach of the Collingwood Magpies...

. He sold the business a couple of years later to pursue acting.

Career

Rein was previously know by his name Carlo Giardina and made his first television appearance on Hey Hey It's Saturday

Hey Hey It's Saturday

Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years , debuting on the Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was Daryl Somers, who would later...

 in 1986 as a contestant on "Red Faces". His first acting role was playing a reporter on the television series Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...

 which was filmed Down Under

Down Under

The term Down Under is a colloquialism which is variously construed either to refer to Australia and New Zealand, or Australia alone. The term comes from the fact that these countries are located in the southern hemisphere, below many other countries on the globe.The persistence of the media use of...

 in 1989 and he has continued acting in both television and film in dramatic, comedic and action roles.

He guest starred on many popular Australian television series including, Neighbours

Neighbours

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...

, Stingers

Stingers

Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...

, Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...

 and was a regular cast member on "Shark Bay" created by Steve Vizard

Steve Vizard

Stephen William Vizard, born 6 March 1956 in Richmond, Victoria, is an Australian media personality, comedian, businessman and writer.-Early life:...

.

Rein moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 2007 where he studied acting with coach Steve Cardwell and also at the Ivana Chubbuck

Ivana Chubbuck

Ivana Chubbuck is an acting coach and author and is the founder and director of the Ivana Chubbuck Studio. Her students included Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Terrence Howard, Elizabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, Djimon Honsou, America Ferrera, Eva Mendes, Kate Bosworth, Ian Somerhalder, April Bowlby and...

 Studio. 2008 was a turning point in his career when he was cast in The Eagle Path

The Eagle Path

The Eagle Path is an action drama written, produced, edited, and directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film also features two of his children, Kristopher Van Varenberg and Bianca Bree. It has been screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Market...

 starring and directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg , professionally known as Jean-Claude Van Damme, is a Belgian martial artist and actor, best known for his martial arts action films, the most successful of which include Bloodsport , Kickboxer , Double Impact , Universal Soldier , Hard Target , Timecop ,...

.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...	Reporter (as Carlo Giardina)	TV series episode: War Games
1990	The Big Steal (1990 film) The Big Steal (1990 film) The Big Steal is a 1990 Australian caper film directed by Nadia Tass starring Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan and Steve Bisley. David Parker was the scriptwriter and cinematographer. The film won three Australian Film Institute awards.-Plot:...	Danny's school friend (uncredited)	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
1992	Neighbours Neighbours Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...	Fred Entwistle (as Carlo Giardina)	TV series episode: #1.1815
1994	Metal Skin Metal Skin Metal Skin is a 1994 Australian film written and directed by Geoffrey Wright, starring Aden Young Tara Morice, Nadine Garner and Ben Mendelsohn. The film follows the lives of four adolescents in and around the blue-collar suburb of Altona, Melbourne....	Drag Fan (as Carlo Giardina)	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
1995	Silver Strand (film)	DeLuise (uncredited)	TV movie
1996	Shark Bay	Multiple Characters (as Carlo Giardina)	TV series
1999	Stingers Stingers Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...	Steve (as Cal Giardina)	TV series episode: Proving Ground
2001	Blue Heelers Blue Heelers Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...	Frank Galvakis	TV series episode: Dragged
2005	Neighbours Neighbours Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...	Seaman Cook	TV series episode: Head or Heart
2006	Killer Bikini Vampire Girls Strike Back	Anthony	Short film
2007	Entourage (TV series) Entourage (TV series) Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...	Cannes Film Critic	TV series episode: The Cannes Kids
2008	Reptisaurus	Commando #1	TV movie
	Ingles Ya!: The Engagement	El Ciclopto	TV series
	EVE: Beauty and the Blade	Officer Kendoran	Sci-fi film
2009	In2ition	Agent #1	TV series episode: Time for Hope to Come Home
	Boychik	Goon	Short film
	Dead End Falls	Robert	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
	The Vanquisher	Stern Faced Man #1	Sci-fi film
	Charlie Valentine Charlie Valentine Charlie Valentine, also released as The Hitmen Diaries: Charlie Valentine, is a 2009 Crime drama starring Raymond J. Barry in the titular role. The film co-stars Michael Weatherly, James Russo, and Tom Berenger, and was shot in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Los Angeles, California...	Harassed Club Patron	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	G.I. Joe Soldier (uncredited)	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
2010	The Tear	Roman Soldier # 1	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
	The Perfect Host	Party Guest	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
	Shadows in Paradise	Agent McDonald	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
	Neighbours Neighbours Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...	Dave Tyler	TV series episode: #1.5910
	Police Under Fire: Mad Max	Mad Max	TV series
2012	The Eagle Path The Eagle Path The Eagle Path is an action drama written, produced, edited, and directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film also features two of his children, Kristopher Van Varenberg and Bianca Bree. It has been screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Market...	Cal	Feature Film Feature film In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

External links

• Official website of Cal Rein
• Cal Rein at the Internet Movie Database
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