- Russell Peters
Russell Dominic Peters (born 1970) is an Indian-Canadian stand-up comic from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. His parents are originally from Bombay and Kolkata in India. Russell Peters focuses primarily on various cultural backgrounds, including his own Indian background, as well as Caribbean, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Arab, African, Hispanic, Italian, British, and other South and Southeast Asian communities. - Kelly Rowan
Kelly Rowan (born October 26, 1967 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress well known for her modelling career and her popular character Kirsten Cohen on the FOX TV series "The O.C." She began modeling in her college years to earn extra cash, becoming involved in acting while working in commercials. A graduate of Toronto's Northern Secondary School, as well as a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, … - Donald Brittain
Donald Brittain, O.C. (June 10, 1928 - July 21, 1989) was an acclaimed filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada. Brittain's most notable directorial credits include the 1965 documentaries "Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen" and "Memorandum". He also directed the first-ever IMAX film, "Tiger Child", for Expo '70. - Nicholas Campbell
Nicholas Campbell (b. 24 March 1952, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, who has won several Gemini Awards for acting. Movies "Naked Lunch", "Prozac Nation" and the TV series "Da Vinci's Inquest" are some examples of his acting work. - Marilyn Denis
Marilyn Denis (born July 1, 1958) is a Canadian television and radio personality. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and received a bachelors degree in Radio, TV and Advertising from the University of Idaho. She began her broadcasting career at a local radio station in Moscow, Idaho, and later moved to Calgary, Alberta where she worked as at CJAY-FM and CHFM. - Martha Burns
Martha Burns is an award-winning Canadian actress best known for her stage work and youth outreach in Ontario and her leading role in the TV drama "Slings and Arrows". In 2006 she won the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her role as Shakespearean diva Ellen Fanshaw in the second season of "Slings and Arrows". She was nominated for the same award in 2004, … - Ian Tracey
Ian Tracey (born 26 June 1964 in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada), is a Canadian Leo and Gemini Award -winning actor. Over the years, Tracey has participated in over seventy films and television series. Tracey is starring in "Intelligence", a CBC television series produced by long-time colleague Chris Haddock, and begins filming season two in July 2007. - Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett (born November 19, 1949 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, UK) is an English actor/director/writer who has been based in Canada since 1986. He is best known for playing the vampire patriarch Lucien LaCroix in the TV series "Forever Knight", for which he won the Canadian Gemini Award for best supporting actor in a dramatic series. - Alexz Johnson
Alexzandra Spencer Johnson (born November 4, 1986) is a Canadian actress and singer/songwriter best known for screen roles in Final Destination 3, So Weird and Instant Star - Sarah Strange
Sarah Strange is a Canadian actress, known for work in a variety of American and Canadian television and film projects, most notably as Helen in the Canadian drama "Da Vinci's Inquest". The daughter of screenwriters L.S. and Marc Strange (creators of "The Beachcombers"), she grew up in Canada's entertainment industry, and has appeared in comedic, dramatic, and science fiction projects on both big and small screens since graduating high school. - Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope (born May 6, 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in Canadian and American movies and television series. She graduated from St. Michael's University School at Victoria, British Columbia, in 1982. Her first movie role was in the Canadian movie "Ups and Downs", in 1981, which was filmed in Victoria. She played the role of Teri Bauer during the first season of the television show "24", from 2001 to 2002. - Jeremy Hotz
Jeremy Hotz (born May 31, 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a Canadian actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared on "Comedy Central Presents", the Just For Laughs comedy festival, "The Late Show with David Letterman", and "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. He has also worked as a staff writer for Paramount's "The Jon Stewart Show" and has appeared in various American and Canadian motion pictures including: "My Favorite Martian", … - Sheila McCarthy
Sheila McCarthy (born January 1, 1956) is a Canadian film, stage and television actress. She is one of the most honored actors in Canada, having won two Genie Awards (film), two Gemini Awards (television), and two Dora Awards (theatre) among multiple nominations. As of 2007, she can be seen on the Canadian television series "Little Mosque on the Prairie". McCarthy was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is married to actor Peter Donaldson, with whom she has two children. - David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet. Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick one course shy of completing a B.A. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and colleges across Canada, including the University of New Brunswick. Richards has received numerous awards including a Gemini Award for scriptwriting for "Small Gifts", … - Kenny Hotz
Kenneth Joel "Kenny" Hotz (born May 3 1973, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian film maker, actor, producer, director, journalist, photographer and writer. He is most famous for co-starring with Spencer "Spenny" Rice on the Canadian television show "Kenny vs. Spenny". Hotz made his first film at the age of seven while attending film camp. He has been a photographer since 1986 -- photographing numerous countries and historic world events. - Yanic Truesdale
Yanic Truesdale, born on March 17, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Michel Gerard in the TV series "Gilmore Girls", a role that prompted "Daily Variety" to name him one of "10 Actors to Watch". Truesdale holds dual United States and Canadian citizenship. He attended a mostly white school as a child and first became interested in theater when he took a job as a busboy and performed in an annual talent show. - Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver (born February 24 1951 or 1952) is a Canadian actress and film and television director. - Susan Coyne
Susan Coyne is a Canadian writer and actor, best known as one of the co-creators and co-stars of the award-winning TV series "Slings and Arrows". In 2006 she won two Gemini Awards for her work on the show, one for best performance in a supporting role and one for best writing for a dramatic series (shared with her fellow co-creators). A veteran of the Toronto theatre scene, she acted for several seasons at the Stratford Festival, … - Kenny Robinson
Kenny Robinson is a stand-up comic, actor, and some-time DJ. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved to Toronto in 1983 to pursue a career as a comedian. In 1998 he was chosen by "NOW Magazine" as their Comic of the Year. Since 1995 he has hosted "The Nubian Disciples All-Black Comedy Revue", a monthly showcase of Black comics at Yuk-Yuks in Toronto. The show has featured performers such as Ronnie Edwards, Mista Mo, … - Bill Cameron
William "Bill" Cameron was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A Gemini Award winner, he was a news anchor, television producer, columnist and author. After attending the University of Toronto and spending time in New York City pursuing a career in acting, he got his start on CBC Radio as a freelance entertainment critic in the 1960s before moving on to Maclean's magazine where he was an associate editor and then to Global TV in 1978 as host of "Newsweek". - Albert Schultz
Albert Schultz (born 1963 in Port Hope, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, director and the founding artistic director of Toronto's celebrated Soulpepper Theatre Company. Schultz studied drama at Toronto's York University and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His theatre career as an actor includes several roles at the Stratford Festival, including Romeo in Robin Phillips' production of "Romeo and Juliet", and at Soulpepper, … - Yan Moore
Yan Moore (b. February 6, 1953) is one of the creators and a writer for Degrassi:The Next Generation and the creator and producer of Riverdale. He was nominated for a Gemini award in 1995 for Best Writer in a Dramatic Series for Road to Avonlea. - Rod Black
Rod Black 's knowledge, versatility and enthusiasm have earned him a reputation as one of Canada's most recognized and distinguished sportscasters. In his 24 years as a sports journalist, Black has been involved with a variety of different events and competitions, fitting into each role with ease. - Tanya Allen
Tanya Allen (born 1975 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian film and television actress. She has won a Gemini Award for her television work in Canada. - Daryn Jones
Daryn Jones (born Charles Daryn Jones, January 3, 1978 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian comedian and television and radio personality. He and fellow comedian Mista Mo co-wrote and co-starred on the sketch comedy television show "Buzz" and was also an on-air correspondent for "Rick Mercer Report". Jones started comedy by doing stand-up in comedy clubs at the age of 19, later going to private theatre school. - Steve Armitage
Steve Armitage (born High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English-born Canadian sports reporter for CBC Sports. He has covered such events as Hockey Night in Canada, the Canadian Football League and Grey Cup, the Olympics, and the World Cup of Football. Armitage won the 1982 ACTRA Foster Hewitt Award for Excellence in Sports Broadcasting and he was nominated for a Gemini Award in 1998 for his coverage of speed skating at the Winter Olympics. - Catherine Disher
Catherine Wilder Disher is a Canadian actress who was born in England and graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1978. She won the Gemini Award for Best Actress for role in the Canadian mini-series "Snakes & Ladders", and was nominated for her role as Dr. Natalie Lambert in the "Forever Knight" TV series. She also had a supporting role on "T. and T.", the legal/action series starring Mr. - Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy (b. 1954) is a Canadian TV and film director. Michael has directed 14 feature-length films or TV movies and over 120 television episodes including the first season of "Little Mosque On The Prairie". He has received two Directors Guild of Canada Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award nomination, a Best Director Gemini nomination; three wins from seven nominations for Best Director at the Canadian Comedy Awards, … - Luc Picard
Luc Picard is a French Canadian actor and comedian. He was born on September 24, 1961 in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. He has played numerous characters in diverse roles. He is most commonly known for his portrayal of the infamous Michel Chartrand in the biographical TV series "Simmone et Chartrand", where he was nominated for Gemini Awards. He stars in the critically acclaimed French film "Un dimanche a Kigali". - Venus Terzo
Venus Terzo (born October 17, 1967, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is an actress best noted for her role as Detective Angela Kosmo in "Da Vinci's Inquest" and its spinoff, "Da Vinci's City Hall". She was nominated in 2002 for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in that same role. Terzo speaks English, French, Italian, and some Greek. She also has voiced several roles in animated shows, … - Peter Jordan
Peter Jordan (sometimes known as "Rocki Rolletti") is best known for the work series It's a Living, which aired on CBC Television from 1989 to 2003. Peter was also a regular contributor to CBWT's "24Hours LateNight" program in the 1980s. Peter has won two Gemini awards for Best Host Lifestyle or Performing Arts Program or Series for the "It's a Living" series (1998 eps. 1 & 5, and 2000 season), and was a four-time Nominee in the same category. - Alan Scarfe
Alan Scarfe (born June 8, 1946 in London, England, United Kingdom) is a British-born Genie Award winning Canadian actor. He is a former Associate Director of the Stratford Festival and the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. He won the 1986 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his role in "Overnight" and earned two other Genie nominatons as well as a Gemini Award nomination. He has a son named Jonathan Scarfe whose mother is Sara Botsford. - Avery Haines
Avery Haines (born ca. 1966 in New Mexico, United States) is a Canadian television journalist and host of "Health On the Line", which airs on Life Network and Discovery Health Channel Canada. On January 15, 2000, Haines, at the time a fill-in anchor for CTV Newsnet, flubbed a line while taping a report introduction. After regaining her composure, she joked: <blockquote>"I kind of like the little stuttering thing. - Peter Stebbings
Peter Stebbings is a veteran actor who started practicing his trade at the Vancouver Youth Theater when he was just 12 years old. He worked at various odd jobs growing up, including bus boy and bike courier, before making the serious move to acting. At 22 in went to New York City to study at the Circle in the Square Theater School. Following his time in New York, he returned to Canada and made his mark playing Kevin Sharp on the hit series Madison, … - Michael Therriault
Michael Therriault (born in Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian actor. He attended Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto, Sheridan College in Oakville, and was a member of the inaugural season of the Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training in Stratford, Ontario. After spending seven seasons at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Mr Therriault left the classical repertoire theatre for musical theatre, … - Rick Roberts
Rick Roberts (born November 13 1965, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor. His most substantial role to date is as Donald D'Arby in the series "Traders", for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award. Roberts has also appeared in "L.A. Doctors" and "An American in Canada". Most recently he played Dennis MacDonald on Family's "Life with Derek". - Joanne Kelly
Joanne Kelly (born in 1980 in Bay d'Espoir, Newfoundland) is a Canadian actress. She attended Acadia University in Nova Scotia. Currently, she plays the role of Sara Collins in Fox's Vanished and has been cast as the vampire Bianca in Sci-Fi Network's "The Dresden Files". - Waneta Storms
Waneta Storms (born November 25, 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian dramatic actor. She is best known for her portrayal of Isobel Lambert in the CTV series "The Eleventh Hour" (2003-2005). Storms has also appeared in the Showcase series "Naked Josh", Peter Benchley's "Amazon", and "Nikita" amongst other series. She was nominated for a Gemini Award in each of her three seasons on the Eleventh Hour, … - Tim Steeves
Tim Steeves is an award-winning Canadian stand-up comedian and writer. He has written for "This Hour Has 22 Minutes," "The Rick Mercer Report" and helped create the Canadian TV comedy show "Talking To Americans". Steeves has shared in wins for three Gemini Awards for "Best Writing in a Comedy Series" and has a Gemini nomination for "Best Performance in a Comedy Series". - The Cottars
The Cottars are a Canadian musical group originating from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia From 2000 to March 2006 The Cottars were comprised of two pairs of siblings: Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray of Albert Bridge, and Jimmy and Roseanne MacKenzie of Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Their style of music would most usually be called Celtic. In 2002, they released their first album entitled "Made In Cape Breton", …
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