• Kavan Smith is a Canadian actor who started his career in science fiction genres.
• He changed his career focus after attending Mount Royal University and was spotted by Brian DePalma in 1999.
• He starred in several sci-fi series, including “Stargate SG-1” and “The 4400”.
• He also stars in the Hallmark Channel series “When Calls the Heart” and hosts “Home and Family”.
• His net worth is estimated at $800,000 as of early 2020.
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Introduction
Even though you might recognize this handsome face these days from the Hallmark Channel romantic TV series ‘When Calls the Heart’, Canadian actor Kavan Smith started his career mainly performing in the sci-fi genre.
How did this shift come about? Was this the first time Smith’s life changed paths? And who is his mysterious wife?
Early life
Kavan Joel Smith is a TV actor born on May 6, 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where he and his brother were raised by their father after their parents’ divorce. While their father’s name remains unknown, their mother’s name is June Hawk. He has always had an affinity for sports – mainly football and martial arts, and he has spent 15 years training and perfecting the latter.
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He discovered his love for performing at a young age, and as he said in a interviewhe and his friend would often skip school classes to rehearse comedy skits that they would later perform on local buses and malls.
Switching universities
After high school, he moved from Edmonton to attend the University of Calgary, Canada, as he wanted to major in economics. However, he himself stated several times that he did not consider himself too competent in the field, and after a year and a half, the university asked him to withdraw before he was assessed, so he dropped the college. He took a one-year break to think about whether or not to risk and pursue his childhood dreams of acting and comedy, and eventually he attended Mount Royal University, where he enrolled in the performing arts program.
This controversial shift turned out to be the decision that changed his life for the better. It was also there and then that he started writing and decided to take his love of acting on a more serious path.
Career in Sci-Fi series
Kavan Smith started his acting career in 1993, when he moved to Vancouver and landed a lead role in the television show called “Destiny Ridge”. Over the next few years, he appeared in a plethora of series and TV movies, most famously in “Alibi,” “Escape from Mars,” “Fearless,” “Smallville,” and “The Twilight Zone.” In a way, this was a sign that he would become the face of the Vancouver sci-fi scene. He played five different characters in five episodes of “The Outer Limits”, and after catching the attention of Brian DePalma in 1999, he was cast as the American pilot in “Mission to Mars”.
However, the role that made his real breakthrough was as Major Evan Lorne in two episodes of “Stargate SG-1”, one of the biggest fiction series in the early 2000s. When “Stargate: Atlantis” was announced, Smith got a role of a completely new character, but they ultimately decided to scrap that version and bring Major Evan Lorne back for another 29 episodes. This recurring role made him a new fan favorite and propelled him into the spotlight and international fame.
Soon after, Smith landed a recurring role on the series “The 4400” as Agent Garrity, another prominent character, and similar projects include guest roles in “Supernatural,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “The Guard,” “Reunion,” and “Jeremiah” He was also spotted as Deputy Andy in Syfy’s “Eureka” and “Red: Werewolf Hunter”, a modern day horror version of “Little Red Riding Hood”, in which he co-starred with Felicia Day.
He was also going to bring Major Evan Lorne’s character to the big screens in “Stargate: Extinction,” but the script for that film was ultimately scrapped.
Other acting roles
After years of sticking to sci-fi roles, Smith got the call to join the cast of Hallmark Channel’s “When Calls the Heart” in the series’ second season. He initially declined as it was out of his niche, but when he learned that the director of his first episode would be Neill Fearnley who he had worked with on numerous occasions, and that his character would be Pascale Hutton’s love interest, his real friend and “The 4400” colleague, he changed his mind. So the role of Leland “Lee” Coulter was born. Proving himself to be more versatile in his acting than previously thought, this series helped Smith land roles in several more non-sci-fi titles, most notably in the Hallmark Channel Original Movie “The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells” and “Love on the menu”.
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Aside from “coming out of the box” when it comes to the type of characters he plays, Smith also now hosts his own TV show, “Home and Family” for Hallmark Channel, and is also one of the faces of “June Weddings”. Preview Special” on the same channel.
Secret marriage
For years, Kavan Smith had been determined to keep the identity of the woman of his life private. It was even unclear whether or not he had a husband until he announced his Twitter in February 2017 that he would be late for an interview because he has to pick up his wife from an airport, and that his two children – later revealed to be boys – were upset. He posted several more tweets about his wife, including from June of the same year in which he stated that his wife disagreed with his desire to make his wedding photos public.
It was revealed some time later that his wife’s name is Corrine Clark, the casting director for “Stargate Atlantis” and “Stargate Universe”, and that they first met when Smith was volunteering at a treatment center years before. Still, the couple keeps a low profile and not much more information has been made public, but the two are apparently enjoying their married life while living in Vancouver with their family.
Private life
Smith also prefers to keep the details of his private life a secret. One of the few known facts is that he loves to cook. As he told International business times, when asked what he wanted to film next after the movie “Wedding Bells”, he replied, “I really like to cook in my spare time, so they asked me what kind of ideas I would pursue. So I had this idea from a chef, and I pitched it to them, and they bought it. (…) So I wrote a script based on my faking [cooking] very well, and we’ll see what happens.’
Thus was born the movie “Love on the Menu”.
Smith was also a bartender for a short time, while waiting between acting projects. He had a home in Los Angeles, California, USA, but sold it in 2007 because he realized he couldn’t move between countries as often once he had a family. He claims to be an avid sci-fi enthusiast, and his favorite sci-fi movie and source of inspiration is “Star Wars”.
Relationship with Pascale Hutton
Despite being married, rumors started circulating about his possible affair with his ‘When Calls the Heart’ on-screen partner, Pascale Hutton.
The gossip only escalated when the two announced their chemistry would be taken to another feature on the Hallmark Channel, “The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells,” which premiered in mid-2018. The two fueled the rumor even more widely as one of the best couples on TV, but since Hutton has been happily married to fellow actor Danny Dorosh since 2002, it’s very likely that this so-called romance is just a rumor, especially since both of them have stated numerous times that they are (just) good friends in real life and that their partners are very comfortable in their relationship.
Net value
As someone who works in the entertainment industry, Kavan Smith has made a small fortune by working in dozens of movies and series which is his main source of income. Despite not winning many awards for his acting skills, his success stems from his huge fan base as he is loved by many devoted sci-fi fans. All this leads to his net worth being estimated at around $800,000 as of early 2020.
Physical Characteristics
Kavan Smith is a Canadian national, a white man with dark eyes and black hair, who is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds. Smith has an athletic build and maintains a healthy body, which is no surprise considering his roles and love of martial arts.
