- 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". - Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody is the pseudonym of Brook Busey-Hunt, a Minnesota-based writer and blogger best known for her yearlong foray in the stripping and peep show circuits of Minneapolis, candidly chronicled on her "Pussy Ranch" blog and in her 2006 memoir "Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper". Cody has also written the forthcoming movie "Juno" and is in pre-production for development of a sitcom. - Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian-born actor, writer, producer and director. His father is director Ivan Reitman. He attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, CA and majored in English-Creative Writing at University of Southern California. His biggest commercial success to date is "Thank You for Smoking", based on the novel by Christopher Buckley. He is currently set to direct "Juno", a screenplay by Diablo Cody, … - Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera (pronounced) (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian television and film actor, known for playing George Michael Bluth in the Fox comedy "Arrested Development". He guest-starred in an episode of teen noir drama "Veronica Mars", and also in the Adult Swim series "Tom Goes to the Mayor" and "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" Cera was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. - Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award- and SAG Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actress, and producer. She first became known for her role as Sydney Bristow on "Alias", a CIA agent. - Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. After starring in several 1980s films, Bateman became known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom "Arrested Development". Since the show's end, he has also appeared in several Hollywood films. - Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March 30 1968) is a Canadian pop vocalist and occasional songwriter. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion became a young star in francophone Canada after her manager and would-be husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her first record. - Olivia Thirlby
Olivia Thirlby (born 1987) is an American actress. Thirlby has trained at the American Globe Theatre, spent a summer at the RADA, and holds a stage combat certificate from the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. She began acting professionally in 2003, and plans to pursue a career on stage and screen. She has appeared in the movies "United 93" and "The Secret". She has also played Aubrey on the television series "Kidnapped". - Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Carolyn Dawn Johnson (born April 30, 1971) is a Canadian Juno award winning country music singer and songwriter. - Bramwell Tovey
Bramwell Tovey joined the VSO as Music Director in September 2000. Since September 2002 he has also been Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. From 1989 to 2001 he was Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Symphony where he established the WSO's New Music Festival as one of the premiere new music events in North America. - Marc Blitzstein
Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 - January 22, 1964) was an American composer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents, among his works were "The Cradle Will Rock", whose premiere was directed by Orson Welles, the opera "Regina", an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes", the Broadway musical "Juno" based on Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," "No For An Answer", … - Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai (born 1969) is an entrepreneur, writer, and editor. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Juno, an Internet company, and more recently as the founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line of pulp-style paperback crime novels. Ardai's writing has appeared in mystery magazines such as "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine", … - Jason McCoy
Jason McCoy (born August 27, 1970 in Minesing, Ontario) is a Canadian singer/songwriter who performs country music. He has won many awards including the 2001 Male Vocalist of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards, 3 SOCAN Song of the Year awards, 19 CCMA nominations and 5 Juno nominations (all for Best Country Male Vocalist). He also won 6 awards at the 2004 Ontario Country Performer and Fan Association awards. - Ron Hynes
Ron Hynes is a popular folk singer-songwriter from Newfoundland. He was born in St. John's in December 1950, and raised in Ferryland. He is especially known for his composition of Sonny's Dream which has been recorded worldwide by many artists. He was a founding member of The Wonderful Grand Band, one of Newfoundland's most popular performing groups, and has released seven solo albums. Hynes is a seven-time East Coast Music Awards winner, … - Leroy Sibbles
Leroy Sibbles (born January 29, 1949) is a reggae musician from Jamaica. He was the lead singer for The Heptones in the 1960-70s. In addition to his work with The Heptones, Sibbles was a session bassist and arranger at Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd's Jamaica Recording and Publishing Studio and associated Studio One label during the prolific late 1960s era. - Sabina
Sabina, matron and martyr from Rome. The widow of Valentinus and daughter of Herod Metallarius, suffered martyrdom about 126, just after her female slave Serapia (who had converted her) suffered the same fate, according to the Acts of the martyrdom. In 430 her relics were brought to the Aventine Hill, to a specially-built basilica on the site of her house, originally sited near a temple of Juno. This house may also have formed an early Christian titular house church. - Dl Incognito
DL Incognito (O.Nestor) is an underground Canadian hip hop producer and rapper from Ottawa, Ontario that started his career in 1998. The letters D & L in DL Incognito are said to be an acronym for "Delivering Lyrics". His 2004 album, "Life's a Collection of Experiences", received a 2005 Juno nomination for Best Rap Recording. Organic Music for a Digital World (2006) is also now nominated for a 2007 Juno Award in the same category, … - Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray on January 19, 1923 in New York City) is an American actress of stage, television and film. She is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the long-suffering, yet devoted wife of Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor) and mother of Gloria Bunker Stivic (played by Sally Struthers), … - Paul Hyde
Paul Hyde is a British-born Canadian musician and record producer. Born in Yorkshire, Hyde came to Canada as a teenager. He was a founding member, with Bob Rock, of Payola$ in the 1970s. After changing their name to "The Payolas", "Paul Hyde and the Payolas" and finally "Rock and Hyde", the band dissolved in 1988. Hyde subsequently became a solo artist. He has also produced albums for other artists, including Spirit of the West. - Luba Goy
Luba Goy (born November 8 1945 in Germany) is one of the stars of "Royal Canadian Air Farce". In the early 1980s, she also starred (as herself, alongside Billy Van) in an educational series on computers called "Bits and Bytes". Produced by TV Ontario, the show was aired by PBS stations in the United States. Later that decade, she played Lotsa Heart Elephant in Nelvana's animated Care Bears franchise. - Eddie Schwartz
Eddie Schwartz (born December 22, 1949) is a Canadian musician and Juno Award winner who had moderate success as a recording artist in the early 1980s, before becoming a successful songwriter, and record producer in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Schwartz was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and attended Toronto's York University, where he graduated from in 1977, as a Music and English major. - Stephan Moccio
Stephan Moccio (b. 1972) is a pianist, composer, producer, arranger and artist. He co-wrote Celine Dion's 2002 hit "A New Day Has Come" with Aldo Nova, which reached and held the number one spot on the Billboard charts for 21 weeks.<br /><br /> An accomplished piano player, Stephan studied at The University of Western Ontario. After completing an honours degree in composition and piano performance, he was accepted into the famed Berklee College of Music. - Deborah Conway
Deborah Conway (Deborah Ann Conway born 8 August 1959 Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian rock singer, songwriter, model and actor who became well known in the 1980s rock band Do-Ré-Mi (1981-1988) with their surprise hit "Man Overboard" (on YouTube).<br /> Conway attended Lauriston Girls' School and then University of Melbourne, modelling and singing her way through. Official Sit - Dave Broadfoot
Dave Broadfoot is a Canadian comedian who was born on December 5, 1925 in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In 1943, he joined the merchant navy serving until 1947. He gained experience for a professional career in theater by working community theatre, eventually gravitating towards comedy. For ten years he was a writer and performer in the influential stage revue, Spring Thaw. - Jack Macgowran
John Joseph "Jack" MacGowran was an Irish-born character actor. He achieved some measure of fame as a leading member of the Abbey Players, he achieved stage renown for his knowing interpretations of the works of Samuel Beckett. MacGowran's film career started in Ireland with the film "No Resting Place". By 1954 he had moved to London, and was actually in The Royal Shakespeare Company. There he struck up a lasting friendship with Peter O'Toole. - Art Bergmann
Art Bergmann is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, who was one of the key figures in Canadian punk rock in the late 1970s. Bergmann began his musical career with an Abbotsford band called the Mount Lehman Grease Band. After Mount Lehman folded, Art founded his own band, called the Notorious Smorg Brothers, which he stocked with a myriad of different support artists. Bergmann was later the lead singer and songwriter for Vancouver, … - Saint Junien
Saint Junien is the patron saint of Poitou plowmen. He was born in the year AD 500 or 501 in the area of "Briosso" (now called Briançais) on an estate named "Champagné" which still exists close to the village of Mairé in the commune of Perigné, Deux-Sèvres, and was educated by his parents who were Gallo-Roman nobility. Although his name is undoubtedly of pagan origin, coming from the Roman gods Juno/Jupiter, … - Juno Mak
Juno Mak, born 18 March, 1984, with birth name 麥允然 (Bobby Mak Wan-Yin), is a singer from Hong Kong. - Juno Doran
Juno Doran, (born 1966), is a contemporary visual artist based in London,United Kingdom. - Juno Roxas
Juno Roxas is an Australian musician and actor. After co-starring in the 1988 Australian, AFI acclaimed feature, Mull, Roxas pursued a successful career in music achieving numerous Gold records for sales of the Album "Nightstreet" in Australia, Europe and the USA as well as a string of singles from 1988-1995 His former band Roxus played several large support slots from 1989-1992 opening for acts such as Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe and Warrant. - Bec Abbot
Bec Abbot is a Canadian pop singer. She first starting singing publicly as a little girl in front of her father's church. After that local churches began calling her for Sunday mornings, banquets and special events. During High School Bec sang in choirs and for friends' weddings. In 1997 vocal coach Elaine Overholt recognized Bec's talent and introduced her to Juno-nominated singer-songwriter Blaise Pascal. - D'Arcy Broderick
D'Arcy Broderick an Newfoundland-Irish musician who plays fiddle, guitar, mandola, banjo, accordion and mandolin is best known as a member of the popular Irish-Newfoundland bands The Irish Descendants and The Fables. He is currently performing around Newfoundland with Ron Kelly, Robert Kelly, and Mike Hanrahan in a group called Middle Tickle. Broderick, born in Bay de Verde, Newfoundland, Canada, the youngest son of Mary (Noonan) and Kevin Broderick, … - Johan Niclas Byström
Johan Niclas Byström was a Swedish sculptor. Byström was born at Filipstad and went to Stockholm the age of twenty, studying there for three years under Johan Tobias Sergel. In 1809 he gained the prize of the Royal Academy of Arts, and in the following year visited Rome. He sent home a beautiful work, "The Reclining Bacchante," in half life size, which raised him at once to the first rank among Swedish sculptors. - Monte Amundsen
Monte Amundsen was an American opera and musical singer who appeared on Broadway in Marc Blitzstein's musical "Juno" in 1959. She was briefly married to her co-star from that show, dancer Tommy Rall and later married opera star Giorgio Tozzi. A gifted soprano, composer Marc Blitzstein was delighted with her voice and expanded her role in "Juno" to include three major songs: "I Wish It So", "For Love", and "My True Heart", … - James Montagu
James Montagu, captain in the navy, third son of Admiral John Montagu, and brother of Admiral George Montagu and of Edward Montagu (1755–1799), was born on 12 Aug. 1752. On 18 Aug. 1771 he was promoted by his father to the rank of lieutenant, and on 11 Sept. 1773 to be commander of the "Tamar" sloop. In her, and afterwards in the "Kingfisher", he continued on the North American station, and on 14 Nov. 1775 he was posted to the "Mercury". - Charles George James Arbuthnot
General Charles George James Arbuthnot, DL (1801 – 21 October, 1870) was a British general. Arbuthnot was born at sea aboard the frigate "Juno" and raised at Woodford, Northamptonshire. His father, Charles Arbuthnot, was a prominent Tory politician and confidant of the Duke of Wellington. He was made a Page of Honour to George III in 1812 (at the age of eleven or twelve). Arbuthnot was made an Ensign in the Grenadier Guards in 1816, … - Juno Temple
Juno Temple (born in June of 1989) is an English actress. She began her career as a child actress in "Vigo: Passion for Life", a film about Jean Vigo, and in the film "Pandaemonium". Most notably, Temple recently played the a supporting role opposite Cate Blanchett in "Notes on a Scandal", … - Juno Ruddell
Juno Ruddell is a Vancouver-based actress who has starred in several movies and local Vancouver plays. - Christopher Nesham
Christopher (John Williams) Nesham, admiral, born in 1771, was son of Christopher Nesham, a captain in the 63rd regiment, by his wife Mary Williams, sister of William Peere Williams-Freeman, admiral of the fleet. Nesham entered the navy in January 1782 on board the »Juno«, with Captain James Montagu, and in her was present at the action off Cuddalore on 20 June 1783. On his return to England in 1785, he was for some time in the »Edgar«, guardship at Portsmouth, … - Alexandre Falguière
Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (September 7, 1831, Toulouse - April 20, 1900, Paris) was a French sculptor and painter. He was born in Toulouse. A pupil of the École des Beaux-Arts, he won the Prix de Rome in 1859; he was awarded the medal of honor at the Paris Salon in 1868 and was appointed officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1878. His first bronze statue of importance was "Le Vainqueur au Combat de Coqs (Victor of the Cockfight)" (1864), …
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