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Michael Monteith was a Canadian actor and musician, known for his role
as Finn Hudson on the Foxtelevision series Glee. the
younger son of Ann McGregor, an interior decorator, and Joe Monteith, a
military man who served in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light
Infantry. He had an older brother named Shaun.
* After his
parents divorce at age 7, Monteith and older brother Shaun are raised by
his single mother, Ann McGregor, in Calgary, Canada. Dropping
out of school in the ninth grade, he works part-time jobs and plays
drums in a local band until meeting casting director Maureen Webb. "It didn't even occur to me what actors did," Monteith later tells the Times Colonist. "Three weeks later I moved to Vancouver with just a bag of T-shirts and two pairs of pants."
* Born in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and raised in Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada, Monteith had a troubled adolescence involving substance abuse
from age 12, From age 13, he used alcohol and marijuana and started
being truant from school and he left school at 16.
* By that time,
his drug and alcohol dependency had increased and Monteith turned to
petty crimes, such as stealing money from friends and family, to fund
his addictions. The turning point in Monteith's
life came when his mother and a group of friends staged an intervention
when he was 19, and he began attending a rehabilitation program. Monteith stated, "I'm lucky on so many counts. I'm lucky to be alive." He eventually received his high school diploma in 2011 from an alternative school he attended in his youth in victoriya.
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