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[Jul. 26th, 2010|12:30 am] |
Born and raised in the heart of Manhattan, Cameron Pockrandt was always a city boy. He rode the subway to school in the morning and took the bus home in the afternoon. No, not the yellow bus with the handy-dandy little stop-sign that poked out of the side whenever kids needed to get out, the regular bus. The one with the smelly homeless people, and the old ladies who took forever to get on and off. That didn't last long though. Cameron began his acting career at a very young age, appearing in nationally broadcast commercials and in bit parts on a few television shows.
We should back up slightly. Cameron Julian Pockrandt was born September 13th, 1984 at Beth Israel hospital in downtown Manhattan. His mother died in childbirth, robbing him of any maternal figure save for his grandmother who smoked like a chimney and wouldn't know an apple from an orange if they came up and hit her in the head. He was raised by his extremely Catholic father with influence now and again from the aforementioned grandmother and her new husband.
Feeling the pain of his mother's death, despite the fact that he never knew her, Cameron threw all of his emotion into acting. He made his own decision to try out for the plays at school and when his grandmother took him to see Les Miserables on Broadway he knew instantly that he wanted to act as a career. On Broadway, on screen, on television--whatever! He didn't care as long as he had that cathartic outlet for emotion. Granted, he didn't know to call it that, but oh well. He tried to tell his father of his decision, but Jeremy Pockrandt would hear none of this silliness from his son. As far as Jeremy was concerned, acting might as well be of the devil. He knew what went on with the "Hollywood agenda" and "those gay people" on Broadway and he didn't want his son to have anything to do with it.
It took a lot of work, but a teacher finally helped Cameron convince his grandmother to help convince his father to at least let him TRY OUT for something. Well, commercials weren't exactly what he had in mind, but since he got the part, they would have to do.
From there his career took off in a fury of excellence. It wasn't overnight, but he was able to build for himself a career that he could be proud of. He didn't care if people were still making fun of him for spreading his arms open wide and screaming that he was the king of the world at the bow of the Titanic--hell, that film got freakin' 11 Oscar nominations. That's not chump change. Sure, he's never won an academy award, but he's working on it. He knows that it's mostly the politics of the business keeping him from getting it, despite all the acclaim his more recent movies have received.
Cameron is an all out gentleman. You could say that he learned a lot from his early roles as the most famous lover of all time--Romeo, as well as his character Jack Dawson from Titanic. If you have to learn how to treat a girl, those aren't bad guys to get your ideas from. He continues to practice gentlemanly behavior learned from them, and pushes aside most, if not all, of the prejudices that his father tried to impose on him from his youth. |
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