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=== Early life and training === | === Early life and training === | ||
Breker began acting in high school in [[w:Saskatchewan|Saskatchewan]], crediting actor and director Gord McCall and the touring company [[w:Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan|Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan]] with introducing him to theatre as a craft rather than a pastime.<ref group="commentary" name="starphoenix_zary_bigbreak_earlyroots_1998">{{cite news|title=Actor sorry to see X-Files go|author=Zary, Darren|newspaper=Star-Phoenix|location=Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|date=29 June 1998|page=12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/510573433/|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> He worked with Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan in the summer of 1988, an experience he later said was the first time he met actors who supported themselves through the work.<ref group="commentary" name="starphoenix_zary_bigbreak_earlyroots_1998"/> The following year he joined the incoming class at the [[w:National Theatre School of Canada|National Theatre School of Canada | Breker began acting in high school in [[w:Saskatchewan|Saskatchewan]], crediting actor and director Gord McCall and the touring company [[w:Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan|Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan]] with introducing him to theatre as a craft rather than a pastime.<ref group="commentary" name="starphoenix_zary_bigbreak_earlyroots_1998">{{cite news|title=Actor sorry to see X-Files go|author=Zary, Darren|newspaper=Star-Phoenix|location=Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|date=29 June 1998|page=12|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/510573433/|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> He worked with Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan in the summer of 1988, an experience he later said was the first time he met actors who supported themselves through the work.<ref group="commentary" name="starphoenix_zary_bigbreak_earlyroots_1998"/> The following year he joined the incoming class at the [[w:National Theatre School of Canada|National Theatre School of Canada** in [[w:Montreal|Montreal]], enrolling in the fall of 1989 alongside fellow Saskatchewan actor Karen Turner.<ref group="external" name="starphoenix_bean_turner_nts_1989"/> He completed one year at the school before relocating to [[w:Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria, British Columbia]], to pursue stage work.<ref group="commentary" name="starphoenix_zary_bigbreak_earlyroots_1998"/> | ||
=== Stage work === | === Stage work === | ||
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A 1997 obituary for his aunt, Angeline Breker Fernholz, names an Eric Breker of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, among the children of Mathieu and Elvira Breker.<ref group="external" name="starphoenix_fernholz_obituary_1997">{{cite news|title=Fernholz [obituary]|newspaper=Star-Phoenix|location=Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|date=15 July 1997|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/510922452/|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="footnotes" name="footnote_name_identification">The obituary does not itself identify this Eric Breker as an actor; the identification rests on the matching name and the shared Humboldt, Saskatchewan background independently reported in the 1989 and 1998 newspaper profiles cited in the lead and Early life and training section.</ref> | A 1997 obituary for his aunt, Angeline Breker Fernholz, names an Eric Breker of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, among the children of Mathieu and Elvira Breker.<ref group="external" name="starphoenix_fernholz_obituary_1997">{{cite news|title=Fernholz [obituary]|newspaper=Star-Phoenix|location=Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|date=15 July 1997|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/510922452/|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="footnotes" name="footnote_name_identification">The obituary does not itself identify this Eric Breker as an actor; the identification rests on the matching name and the shared Humboldt, Saskatchewan background independently reported in the 1989 and 1998 newspaper profiles cited in the lead and Early life and training section.</ref> | ||
In July 1994, Victoria's ''Times Colonist'' reported that Breker became engaged to fellow actor and advertising model Jenny Matechuk; the proposal took place during a newspaper photo shoot in which the couple had been posed as a "dream couple" to promote the paper's new voice-personals feature, and Breker produced a ring partway through the session.<ref group="external" name="timescolonist_gibson_engagement_1994">{{cite news|title=Ah, true love ... girl of his dreams says 'yes' to her dream man|author=Gibson, Jim|newspaper=Times Colonist|location=Victoria, British Columbia|date=7 July 1994|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/508329856/|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> The couple were preparing at the time to tour a play, ''Once There'', to [[w:Fringe festival|Fringe festivals]] across western Canada.<ref group="external" name="timescolonist_gibson_engagement_1994"/> He married in early 1998, travelling to [[w:Australia|Australia | In July 1994, Victoria's ''Times Colonist'' reported that Breker became engaged to fellow actor and advertising model Jenny Matechuk; the proposal took place during a newspaper photo shoot in which the couple had been posed as a "dream couple" to promote the paper's new voice-personals feature, and Breker produced a ring partway through the session.<ref group="external" name="timescolonist_gibson_engagement_1994">{{cite news|title=Ah, true love ... girl of his dreams says 'yes' to her dream man|author=Gibson, Jim|newspaper=Times Colonist|location=Victoria, British Columbia|date=7 July 1994|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/508329856/|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> The couple were preparing at the time to tour a play, ''Once There'', to [[w:Fringe festival|Fringe festivals]] across western Canada.<ref group="external" name="timescolonist_gibson_engagement_1994"/> He married in early 1998, travelling to [[w:Australia|Australia** for the wedding before returning to resume his Vancouver acting career.<ref group="commentary" name="starphoenix_zary_bigbreak_marriage_1998"/> | ||
Breker has worked for years as a contractor carpenter alongside his acting career, a parallel he discussed in a 2024 interview by comparing notes with fellow actor and tradesman [[w:Don S. Davis|Don S. Davis]], his ''Stargate SG-1'' co-star.<ref group="commentary" name="gateworld_breker_interview_contractorbusiness">{{cite web|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/10/utility-man-one-on-one-stargate-colonel-reynolds/#:~:text=I%27m%20a%20contractor%20carpenter%20as%20well|title=Utility Man: One-on-One With Stargate's Colonel Reynolds (Interview with Eric Breker)|publisher=GateWorld|date=4 October 2024|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> In the same interview, he referred to balancing his construction business with his "family and kids" during the lean stretches between acting jobs, and attributed to his early stage training a piece of theater-school advice he still keeps in mind: that an actor's career is a matter of outlasting, rather than outworking, one's peers.<ref group="commentary" name="gateworld_breker_interview_familycontext">{{cite web|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/10/utility-man-one-on-one-stargate-colonel-reynolds/#:~:text=I%2ve%20got%20family%20and%20kids|title=Utility Man: One-on-One With Stargate's Colonel Reynolds (Interview with Eric Breker)|publisher=GateWorld|date=4 October 2024|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="commentary" name="gateworld_breker_interview_theaterschool">{{cite web|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/10/utility-man-one-on-one-stargate-colonel-reynolds/#:~:text=outwork%20your%20fellow%20actor|title=Utility Man: One-on-One With Stargate's Colonel Reynolds (Interview with Eric Breker)|publisher=GateWorld|date=4 October 2024|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> | Breker has worked for years as a contractor carpenter alongside his acting career, a parallel he discussed in a 2024 interview by comparing notes with fellow actor and tradesman [[w:Don S. Davis|Don S. Davis]], his ''Stargate SG-1'' co-star.<ref group="commentary" name="gateworld_breker_interview_contractorbusiness">{{cite web|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/10/utility-man-one-on-one-stargate-colonel-reynolds/#:~:text=I%27m%20a%20contractor%20carpenter%20as%20well|title=Utility Man: One-on-One With Stargate's Colonel Reynolds (Interview with Eric Breker)|publisher=GateWorld|date=4 October 2024|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> In the same interview, he referred to balancing his construction business with his "family and kids" during the lean stretches between acting jobs, and attributed to his early stage training a piece of theater-school advice he still keeps in mind: that an actor's career is a matter of outlasting, rather than outworking, one's peers.<ref group="commentary" name="gateworld_breker_interview_familycontext">{{cite web|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/10/utility-man-one-on-one-stargate-colonel-reynolds/#:~:text=I%2ve%20got%20family%20and%20kids|title=Utility Man: One-on-One With Stargate's Colonel Reynolds (Interview with Eric Breker)|publisher=GateWorld|date=4 October 2024|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="commentary" name="gateworld_breker_interview_theaterschool">{{cite web|url=https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/10/utility-man-one-on-one-stargate-colonel-reynolds/#:~:text=outwork%20your%20fellow%20actor|title=Utility Man: One-on-One With Stargate's Colonel Reynolds (Interview with Eric Breker)|publisher=GateWorld|date=4 October 2024|accessdate=22 June 2026}}</ref> | ||