Cory Monteith

About
Career
Actor
Age
31 year
Date of death
July 13, 2013
Height
6 Feet 5 Inches
Weight
85 kg (187 lb)
Net worth
$2 million
Social networks
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    Biography

    He was a musician as well as an actor from Canada. He is most popularly known by the people for his contribution on Glee, Fox television series, as Finn Hudson.

    Cory Monteith
    Cory Monteith

    About

    Cory took his first breath on 11th May 1982 in a place called Calgary situated in Alberta. His father Joe Monteith was a military man who contributed to Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and his mother Ann McGregor was an interior designer. He was the youngest in the family and has one elder brother named as Shaun. At an early age of seven, he has to face the consequences of divorce between his parents.

    Cory Monteith with his mom
    Cory Monteith with his mom

    Thus, was taken care of by his mother. He along with his mother and brother shifted to Victoria situated in British Columbia. He began to take marijuana and alcohol from an early age of 13 and started to bunk his classes. He left his college at the age of 16 and started to commit petty crimes to fulfill his weed addiction. Thus, he was sent to rehab at 19. Before gaining such popularity, he used to work as a mechanic, people greeter in Walmart, roofer, etc.

    Cory Monteith
    Cory Monteith

    Movie Career

    Monteith started his career by getting short roles in movies like Deck the Halls, Whisper and Final Destination 3. He also performed as a guest performer in serials like Stargate SG-1, Flash Gordon, Smallville, Supernatural and Stargate Atlantis. In 2005 he appeared as Paul in Bloody Mary.

    Cory Monteith
    Cory Monteith

    To get improvement in acting he started to take classes with Anthony Meindl. He worked in Kaya, MTV series, as Gunnar in 2007. He has worked in movies like Monte Carlo, a comedy movie filled with romance in 2010 and in Sisters and Brothers in 2011.

    Personal life

    Cory started to work with Lea Michele, an American actress in Glee in 2008. And by 2012, it came to the news that both of them are dating each other. They stayed together until his passing eighteen months after the fact. After the death of Monteith, she has discharged several songs for him. Some of them are “If You Say So” and “Hey You”.

    Lea Michele and Cory Monteith
    Lea Michele and Cory Monteith

    Substance abuse

    It was on the 31st of March 2013, Monteith's marketing expert reported that Monteith had conceded himself into a treatment office for substance compulsion. Earlier he got his substance misuse treatment, when he was 19 years old, following a background marked by the use of drugs that started at an early age of 13.

    Cory Monteith
    Cory Monteith

    As per Ryan Murphy the Glee co-maker, Monteith's admission in the rehab center in March came about because of an urgent intercession in the Paramount lot, where Murphy and different individuals from the Glee cast and group encouraged Monteith to go with specialists to the rehab center, which had been organized by the show.

    Cory Monteith
    Cory Monteit

    What did Cory Monteith die of?

    The reason of death was a combined drug intoxication. It was on the 13th of July 2013, the artist was found dead in his hotel room of Fairmont Pacific Rim located in Vancouver. He was 31 at that time.