Craig Olejnik Fan Site

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: I'll be updating all afternoon. I've found a lot of neat stuff, so get your popcorn ready for the premiere tonight! 

UPDATE: No, I haven't forgotten this site or squeeing over Craig Olejnik. My life got swallowed by, well, life. I promise there will be lots of NEW goodies for the North American premiere of "The Listener" June 4, even if it kills me. You never know; it might.  

FEB. 4: There's a new Listener fanpage on Facebook and it's got a really cute video, so check it out.

This is a promo clip for "The Listener," so watch it. Oh, you should have Apple Quick Time. And be sitting down, because, like, wow. 

NEW: Craig Olejnik has signed with the William Morris Agency, which does entertainment and literary representation. I'm guessing this is a good thing, 'cos the agency is a good 120 years old, and I've actually heard of it. Hopefully, this means the agency sees him as marketable, meaning we'll all see a lot more of him.

LISTNER UPDATE: Yes, the CTV has screwed you, Canadians. And I think your taxes pay for that shit. I'm not 100 percent sure. So you have to wait until the rest of us North Americans (except for Mexico and those peeps -- lucky bastards). So, I'm sad I don't get spoilers, but I'm happy y'all can't taunt me.

In other news, apparently Fox is making a big brouhaha over premiering "The Listener," which is good. Cos I knew that Craig has international star quality.

Just remember ... I was here first. How this is important, I do not know, but I maintain that I was here first. 

ANNOUNCEMENT: Look, I'm not one-hundred percent sure of this information, but it looks like CTV will NOT be running "The Listener" this January. I have come to this conclusion based on 1) the total lack of any promotion for the show, less than a month before it is scheduled to run, and trust me, I have my peeps up in Canada with their eyeballs peeled and looking for it, and 2) buzz that NBC, impressed with the success of Canadian shows recently released in the States, has asked that CTV wait so the show can be shown in the States and Canada at the same time.

However, as far as I can tell, it WILL run internationally on FOX, beginning the first week in March, so if you live in England or Singapore or something, you're in luck. I hate you, by the way.

And back to your regularly scheduled squeeing ... 

Look, I can't tell you a lot about Craig Olejnik. There just isn't a lot out there. So I made this Web site to collect what little pieces of information that are available in one convenient place.

Why did I do it? 'Cuz Craig Olejnik is pretty damn talented, cute as hell and he's about to become very popular. However, I was here first. I just want to note that, okay? No other Craig Olejnik sites out there right now. Just this one.

So, maybe, one day, Craig Olejnik might Google himself. And he'll find this site. Maybe he'll take pity and drop an email, let us know what's going on with him professionally. Maybe. Look, don't try to crush my dreams. People Google themselves all the time. Just leave it be, okay? A girl can hope.

Anyway, what do we know about Craig Olejnik? He's 30 years old, having been born on June 1, 1979 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which also makes him Canadian. Let's pause for a minute here to be jealous of Canadians, because they have Craig Olejnik and I don't. I mean, we don't. Of course, that's what I meant.

Apparently, his nickname is Junior or that's what the Internet Movie Database would have us believe. I'd like to postulate that this means he may be Craig Olejnik Jr., but I'd only be postulating. I don't have a clue. I do know he's got amazing blue eyes, that I know.

Moving on, Craig Olejnik has appeared in five feature films, two made-for-television movies and four television shows.

He also was a writer/producer/cinematographer in "Interview with a Zombie," an independent short film shot in ... Canada. I know, I was surprised, too. It's a fifteen-minute long dark comedy, with the premise that a film star who happens to be dead sits down for an interview. I have no idea where you can get it. I looked, and I couldn't find it. Stupid Amazon.

His first movie was ... an independent. I am starting to see a pattern here. Why do I have to celebrity crush on people who make small/independent films? Must I be attracted to the quirky? Why can't I appreciate the Zac Efrons of the world?

Hold on, this is supposed to be about Craig Olejnik.

Anyway, his first movie was "Margaret's Museum." It was shot primarily in Nova Scotia. He's not a main character, but is Helena Bonham Carter's character's brother.

In case you were curious, it won a boatload of Genies -- but none for Craig Olejnik in particular, so moving on -- and the Most Popular Canadian Film at the 1995 Vancouver International Film Festival. He was only 16, but he was on to some good stuff already.

"Margaret's Museum" also is featured in the 2004 documentry "Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche," where you can see some archive footage of Craig Olejnik.

Only they misspell his last name as Olojnik because Olejnik is so hard to spell. It took me a whole two minutes to learn it, even. And, no, I am not making up the name of the documentry. Apparently, Canada is all about snow and weird sex. Well, I guess if I were snowed in all the time, I'd have time to think up some pretty kinky stuff.  

After his first film, Craig Olejnik (or is it Olojnik?) waits for four years before making something else. Do we know why? Nope. Maybe he was busy going to high school or somesuch. Anyway, next movie ... "Teen Sorcery." This is pretty much his "Zac Efron Moment," only Disney didn't shovel it down our throats until we begged for mercy and agreed to buy their shitty merchandise ... oh, I'm getting off topic again, aren't I?

Anyway, he was 20, and he got to go hang out with A.J. Cook in Romania, so we'll give him a pass, shall we? Like Craig Olejnik cares ...

So then he waits another two years, and I'll tell you what, thank goodness I waited until now to crush on him, because if I had done it early in his career, these gaps would have been painful. So then he goes Disney Channel with a guest shot on their paranormal tween series, "So Weird," then regained his mind and ran back to Canada, where he did another two-shot guest appearance on the werewolf-centric series "Wolf Lake," which appeared on CBS, got axed, moved to UPN and died quietly in its sleep.

Craig Olejnik must like the paranormal stuff, because his next project was the feature film "Thir13en Ghosts," in which he played a kid who died in what must have been a pretty awful car wreck, since half of his body is hamburger. It sucks that this is one of the most high-profile project he's done, and he's a walking maggot museum. However, watching him leer at the living and try to whack the bejeezus out of them with a baseball bat made me smile. I'm not sure I was supposed to, but he looked like he was having a great time.

Also, if you watch the documentry short "Thir13en Ghosts Revealed," you'll see him in archive footage and get to drool over Matthew Lillard at the same time. That's really excellent, right there.

Following "Thir13en Ghosts," he went to Vancouver and played the boyfriend in "Flower & Garnet," which also didn't do too badly with awards, including the 2002 Vancouver International Film Festival, where Director Keith Behrman won the Best New Western Canadian Director award.

Craig Olejnik must want to spite me, because he took another three year hiatus before making "Interview with a Zombie" in 2005. However, he obviously doesn't want me to die, because he made the Lifetime Channel movie "Obituary" the next year. Yet another paranormal film and the fact that the writers thought someone writing obituraries could move up to a senior reporting position tickled the hell out of me, but who cares? Craig Olejnik is a hot mailroom boy -- swear to God, I can not make this stuff up -- and has a very creepy end.

Things look up when Craig Olejnik gets a reoccuring role on the drama "Runaway" about a family who goes on the lamb after the dad is wrongfully accused of a crime. Yay! Only one problem: It's on the CW. Yeah ... it got canceled after maybe two episodes. Hey, at least he got to hang with Donnie Wahlberg for a while.

Then, in 2007, he appears in a minor role in "In God's Country," a made-for-television movie which capitalized on all of the polygamist sect news and was apparently based on a true story. Craig Olejnik refuses to cross the border to come and see me, because this was made in Ontario for Lifetime. I'm going to have to start watching that channel.

I can't tell you too much about "The Timekeeper," which is supposed to be released in Canada this year. That's because there's virtually zero information on it. It's been completed. I think. Craig Olejnik stars in it, however, and that is enough for me.

However, I've picked the perfect time to celebrity crush on Craig Olejnik, because he's gone back to his paranormal roots as a telepathic paramedic on NBC's "The Listener." It premieres in Spring 2009, and he's starring as "tortured hero" Toby Logan. So, when I start getting mad hits in the spring: Ladies, I was here first. Get in line.

Apparently, Craig Olejnik enjoys the outdoors, as he likes to hike, camp and kayak. Fabulous. I've always wanted to be bitten by something poisionous or drown.

In case I've gotten something horribly wrong or you are actually Craig Olejnik and want to email me, here it is: artemisrexmoon@yahoo.com.