Toren Atkinson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba but raised in Calgary, Alberta and graduated from Chilliwack Sr High in Chilliwack, British Columbia. His father played drums in the Canadian Forces. In 1992 he started the H.P. Lovecraft homage rock band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets as the lead singer. He moved to Vancouver to pursue his career in voiceover acting and illustration, and with Warren Banks wrote the role-playing game based on Spaceship Zero. As a Lovecraft afficionado he became involved in several independent Lovecraft film adaptations including an animated version of the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Show less «