- Christina Jennings
Christina Jennings is a chairman and Co-CEO of Shaftesbury Films. She has won both a Genie and a Gemini Award, amongst other nominations. - Rick Mercer
Richard Vincent "Rick" Mercer (born October 17, 1969 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador), is a Canadian comedian, television personality, political satirist and occasionally, a blogger. Mercer first came to national attention in 1990, when he premiered his one-man show "Show Me the Button, I'll Push It, or Charles Lynch Must Die" at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. A pointed, satirical political commentary on Canadian life after Meech Lake, … - Paul Gross
Paul Michael Gross (born April 30, 1959), is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He has two children, Jack and Hannah, with fellow actor Martha Burns whom he married in 1987. He also has a Golden Retriever called Chester. He is internationally best known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series "Due South". - Ellen Page
Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian female actor, perhaps best known for her starring role in "Hard Candy" and as Kitty Pryde in "X-Men: The Last Stand". She had previously received attention, particularly in her native Canada, for award-winning roles in "Pit Pony" and "Marion Bridge" and TV shows "Trailer Park Boys" and "ReGenesis". - Wendy Crewson
Wendy Crewson (born May 9, 1956) is a Canadian actress. Crewson was born in Hamilton, Ontario and attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she won the prestigious Lorne Greene Award for outstanding work in the theater. She then studied at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She has been married to actor Michael Murphy since 1988 and they have two children together. - Ron MacLean
Ronald Joseph MacLean is a Canadian sportscaster for the CBC who is best known as the host of "Hockey Night in Canada". MacLean's father was stationed in Germany as an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force when MacLean was born, but 14 months later the family moved back to Canada, and he grew up in Chester, Nova Scotia, and Red Deer, Alberta. In addition to his work at the CBC, MacLean is a Level 5 referee with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. - Michael Riley
Michael Riley (born February 4, 1962 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian actor and graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada in 1984. Riley's first appearance was in the film "No Man's Land" (1987). He has acted in over 40 films and television series, including "This Is Wonderland", for which he received a Gemini Award, and the emmy-nominated BBC / Discovery Channel co-production Supervolcano. - Seán Cullen
Seán Cullen is a Canadian comedian who has been active in the comedy world since the late 1980s. He is known for his unique talents of combining improvisation with uncanny mimicry and his broad musical talents. Cullen entered into the public eye in 1988 as a member of musical comedy group Corky and the Juice Pigs, a seminal group on the Canadian comedy scene that has influenced comedy performers as far away as Australia and the UK. Over the next 13 years, … - Chris Cuthbert
A sports broadcasting veteran for more than 20 years, Chris Cuthbert joined TSN in June 2005 as the voice of the CFL on TSN and play-by-play announcer for TSN's NHL broadcasts. ... Cuthbert's vast knowledge and passion for sports is renowned - and respected - throughout the sports industry. In 2006, Cuthbert won a Gemini Award with Glen Suitor as Best Sports Play-By-Play or Analyst for their work on TSN's CFL broadcasts. - Jim Hughson
Jim Hughson (born 1956 in Fort St. John, British Columbia) is a Canadian sportscaster, ice hockey play-by-play broadcaster, and host of "Snapshots" on Rogers Sportsnet. Hughson has won five Gemini Awards, the most recent coming in 2004, where he was named the best sports play-by-play or analyst. He is also the official play-by-play announcer for the EA Sports NHL series of video games, and has been since 1997. - Mary Walsh
Mary Cynthia Walsh, CM, LL.D (h.c.) (born May 13, 1952, St. John's, Newfoundland) is an actress and comedian. - Peter Mansbridge
Peter Mansbridge (born July 6, 1948) is a British born Canadian journalist, CBC's "Chief Correspondent" and anchor of "The National," CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast. Mansbridge was born in London, England and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where he attended Glebe Collegiate Institute, but dropped out before graduating. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1966 and 1967. While working as an airport announcer in Churchill, Manitoba in 1968, … - Gavin Crawford
Gavin Crawford is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for "The Gavin Crawford Show" and "This Hour Has 22 Minutes". Crawford is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of British Columbia. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Crawford is the creator, co-writer and co-star of the self-titled series, which ran for two seasons on Canada's Comedy Network. - Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams (born October 7, 1976) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the Hollywood films "Mean Girls", "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers", which all proved to be successful at movie theaters. - Sarah Polley
Born in Toronto , Ontario , Sarah Polley is the youngest of five children born to Michael Polley , a British -born actor (he attended acting classes with Albert Finney in England before moving to Canada), and actress and casting director Diane Polley , who died of cancer just before Polley's 11th birthday. She attended Earl Haig Secondary School , but dropped out before graduating. - Cathy Jones
Cathy Jones (born April 6, 1955, in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian comedian and writer. She was born Catherine Theresa Jones in 1955 in Newfoundland, Canada and attended Holy Heart of Mary High School. Jones' mother, although loving, was agoraphobic and seldom left the family house. Her father, a photography store owner to whom Jones was very close growing up, suffered from depression and alcoholism, … - Sonja Smits
Sonja Smits (born September 8, 1958 in Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada) is a television actress who has played roles in many television series, including "Falcon Crest", "Airwolf", "Odyssey 5", "The Outer Limits", "Street Legal", "Traders" and "The Eleventh Hour". - Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. He is the eldest of the Baldwin brothers, and has starred in many movies and TV shows such as "30 Rock" and is also noted for hosting "Saturday Night Live" 13 times. - Shirley Douglas
Shirley Douglas, OC, LL.D (born 2 April 1934 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian television, film and stage actress and activist. Shirley's acting career combined with her family name has made her recognisable in Canadian Film, Television and Politics: she is the daughter of Tommy Douglas (1904-1986), former Canadian statesman and Premier of Saskatchewan. Shirley is mother of three children: Thomas, from her first marriage, and of twins Rachel and Kiefer Sutherland, … - Graham Greene
Graham Greene (born June 22, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian actor. - Wendy Mesley
Wendy Mesley (born 1957) is a host and reporter for CBC Television's consumer investigation series "Marketplace". She is also a frequent back-up anchor for CBC's flagship evening news program "The National". In 2001 and 2002 she co-hosted the investigative newsmagazine "CBC News: Disclosure" with Diana Swain, and previously hosted the media and technology series "Undercurrents" from 1994 until 2001. - Colm Feore
Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian film and television actor. - Neil MacDonald
Neil Macdonald (born 1957) is an award winning Canadian journalist who currently works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Macdonald worked as a print journalist for many years. He joined the CBC in 1988 and covered Parliament for approximately a decade. He then served for five years as the network's chief Middle East correspondent. He is currently "The National"'s Washington correspondent. - Alisen Down
Alisen Down (born January 3, 1976) is a Canadian film and TV actress. She was born in Langley, British Columbia. - Diana Swain
Diana Swain is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She has been the host of "CBC News At Six", CBC Toronto's local nightly newscast, since September, 2004. In addition, she is a correspondent for "The National's" current affairs unit. Previously, Swain was the co-host of "CBC News: Disclosure", a primetime investigative magazine program, and co-host of "Sunday Report", the national Sunday evening news program, … - Beverly Thomson
Beverly Thomson is a Canadian journalist and co-host of "Canada AM", CTV's national morning show. In 2006, she received the Gemini Humanitarian Award. Thomson worked for six years at CFTO Toronto as an anchor on the weekend news program. She then moved to Global affiliate CIII as the anchor of both the 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. weeknight news broadcasts. She has been in broadcasting for more than 15 years. Thomson joined the "Canada AM" team in November 2003. - Megan Follows
Megan Follows (born Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows on March 14, 1968) is a Canadian actress. Follows (whose first name is pronounced "Mee-gan") is best known to international audiences for her role as Anne Shirley in the acclaimed 1985 Canadian television miniseries "Anne of Green Gables" and its two sequels. - Janet Wright
Janet Wright is a Canadian actress and theatre director. She is best known for her role as Emma Leroy on the hit Canadian sitcom "Corner Gas". She won a 2003 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for her role in "Betrayed" (2003). She also won the 1992 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for "Bordertown Café" (1993). - Shaun Majumder
Shaun Majumder (born on January 29, 1972) is a Canadian comedian and actor. Majumder was born in Burlington, Newfoundland to a white Canadian mother and an Indian father. He started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show "CLIPS", and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show on called "Brain Wash", where he was known as Ed Brainbin. He also hosted the "Slime Tour" segments on the popular game show "Uh Oh!". - Michael Murphy
Michael George Murphy (born May 5, 1938) is an American film and television actor. - Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin (born July 27, 1949) is a Canadian/American actor. He is known for his work as a character actor in many films and television series. - Scott Oake
Scott Oake, born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian sportscaster for CBC Sports. Oake was a pre-med student at Memorial University who volunteered at the campus radio station. After part-time work at CBC St. John's, he was hired full-time in 1974. Scott was the sports anchor on CBWT's "24Hours" from 1979 till about 1989. He is probably best known as a contributor to "Hockey Night in Canada", the CBC's flagship television show for NHL games. - Ken Finkleman
Ken Finkleman (born 1946 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian television and film writer, producer and actor. In Canada, Finkleman is best known as the writer, creator and producer of the CBC Television series "The Newsroom", in which he starred as television news producer George Findlay. He produced a number of other series for Canadian television as well, including "Married Life", "Foolish Heart", "Foreign Objects" and "More Tears". - Sara Botsford
Sara Botsford (born April 8, 1951 in Dobie, Ontario, Canada) is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian actress. She is probably best known for her role in the television series "E.N.G." for which she won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Sara portrayed Kathleen Sinclair in the TV movie "Trudeau" about the life of the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. - Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Grammy-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her most popular songs include "Angel", "Building a Mystery", "Adia", "Possession", "Fallen", "I Will Remember You", and "World on Fire". Her best-selling album to date is "Surfacing", for which she won four Juno Awards and two Grammy Awards. - Tony Burman
Tony Burman (born 13 June 1948) is editor in chief of CBC News. On June 19, 2007, he announced his retirement from the CBC, effective July 13. An announcement regarding his future plans is expected in Fall 2007. - Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist. "Artists are the people who are able to resist the school system fragmenting us because it's convenient to do so, when the art teacher is in competition with the music teacher, and all creativity is in competition with the 'real' curriculum." - Patrick McKenna
Patrick McKenna (born May 8, 1960 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comedic and dramatic actor. He is best known for playing Harold Green on the television series "The Red Green Show" and "Traders", and the "Trudeau" miniseries. McKenna is one of many notable alumni of Toronto's "The Second City" comedy troupe. - Kevin Brauch
Kevin Jeffery Brauch (born 1969 in Toronto), "celebrity bartender," is host of the show "The Thirsty Traveler" on the Fine Living Network (originally on the Food Network) and currently is the floor reporter for "Iron Chef America" on the Food Network. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Brauch worked as a bartender for seven years early in his career while working his way through the radio and television program at Ryerson University. - Mark Lee
Mark Lee is a Canadian sportscaster for CBC Sports who has covered women's ice hockey, Olympic games and the Pan Am Games. He graduated from Carleton University with a journalism degree where he also began his broadcasting career at CKOY-FM/CKBY-FM. He then worked as a news anchor at CFCF radio in Montreal. Lee then moved to Toronto where he worked at CBC Radio as a national sports reporter where he also hosted the sports magazine show "The Inside Track".
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