Top 200 Canadian Actors

1. Frank Powell

Frank Powell was born on May 8, 1877 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Mrs. Balfame (1917), Princess Romanoff (1915) and The Greater Woman (1917). He was previously married to Jane Miller.

2. Charles Hill Mailes

Actor | The Mark of Zorro

Charles Hill Mailes was born on May 25, 1870 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Hungarian Nabob (1915) and Money Madness (1917). He was married to Claire McDowell. He died on February 17, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

3. Sam De Grasse

Actor | The Man Who Laughs

Born in Canada, Sam De Grasse entered films in 1912 and specialized in playing thoroughly disreputable, nasty, slimy bad guys. Douglas Fairbanks was so impressed with De Grasse's villainy that he used the actor in several of his more memorable productions. He wasn't the only member of the De Grasse ...

4. Allakariallak

Self | Nanook of the North

Indigenous Canadian Inuk, best known for starring in Nanook of the North (1922), considered by many to be the first modern documentary film, despite rumors that most of it was staged and that his wife was an actress. Allakariallak died in 1924 from tuberculosis, but around the time of his death it ...

5. Frederick Vroom

Actor | The General

Frederick Vroom was born on November 11, 1857 in Clement, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor and director, known for The General (1926), The Navigator (1924) and The Great Lover (1920). He was married to Florence. He died on June 24, 1942 in Hollywood, California, USA.

6. Ned Sparks

Actor | 42nd Street

Ned Sparks proved himself a top character support whose style would be imitated for decades to come. Although less remembered now, he was an inimitable cinematic player back in 1930s Hollywood. The nasal-toned, deadpan comedian Sparks was born Edward A. Sparkman in Guelph, Canada, and was raised ...

7. Walter Huston

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer and his vocation for the stage. In 1909 he dedicated himself to the theatre, and made his debut on Broadway in 1924. In 1929 he journeyed to Hollywood, where his talent and ability made him one of the most respected actors in ...

8. Raymond Massey

Actor | Arsenic and Old Lace

Educated at the University of Toronto & Balliol College, Oxford, he joined the Canadian Field Artillery in World War I, served in France & was wounded. His first appearance was in a stage production in Siberia, during the multi-nation intervention of 1918 - 1919. Raymond returned to Canada & his ...

9. Walter Pidgeon

Actor | Forbidden Planet

Walter Pidgeon, a handsome, tall and dark-haired man, began his career studying voice at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He then did theater, mainly stage musicals. He went to Hollywood in the early 1920s, where he made silent films, including Mannequin (1926) and Sumuru (1927). ...

10. Glenn Ford

Actor | Gilda

Legendary actor Glenn Ford was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford in Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne, Quebec, Canada, to Hannah Wood (Mitchell) and Newton Ford, a railroad executive. His family moved to Santa Monica, California when he was eight years old. His acting career began with plays at high school...

11. John Ireland

Actor | All the King's Men

Born in Canada, John Ireland was raised in New York. Performing as a swimmer in a water carnival, he moved into the legitimate theater, often appearing in minor roles in Broadway plays. His first big break in pictures came in 1945 when he appeared as Windy the introspective letter-writing G.I. in ...

12. Ovila Légaré

Actor | Aux frontières du possible

Ovila Légaré was born on July 21, 1901 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Aux frontières du possible (1971), Embrasse-moi comme tu m'aimes (2016) and Footsteps in the Snow (1966). He was married to Émilia Deguire. He died on February 19, 1978 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

13. Paul Dupuis

Actor | Sleeping Car to Trieste

Paul Dupuis was born on August 11, 1913 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948), Passport to Pimlico (1949) and Madness of the Heart (1949). He died on January 23, 1976 in St-Sauveur, Québec, Canada.

14. Alexander Knox

Actor | Wilson

A Presbyterian minister's son, softly-spoken, intellectual-looking Alexander Knox received his education from the University of Western Ontario where he studied English literature. An excellent elocutionist (a member of the university's Hesperian Club) he had his first fling with dramatic acting ...

15. Leslie Nielsen

Actor | Airplane!

Leslie William Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and raised in Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), Northwest Territories. His mother, Mabel Elizabeth (Davies), was Welsh. His father, Ingvard Eversen Nielsen, was a Danish-born Mountie and a strict disciplinarian. Leslie studied at the Academy of ...

16. Jack Kruschen

Actor | The Apartment

Canadian-born Jack Kruschen entered films after years on the stage, and became a dependable character actor both in movies and on television. Often cast as ethnic comedy relief, Kruschen occasionally landed a role as a villain, but was more often the volatile, emotional Italian or Jewish neighbor ...

17. Alan Young

Actor | Mister Ed

Alan Young was born in Northern England in 1919, but his Scots father moved the family to Edinburgh, Scotland, when Young was a toddler and then to Canada when Young was about 6 years old. As a boy, he suffered from severe asthma, which kept him bedridden for long periods of time but encouraged his...

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18. Michael Kane

Actor | Three Days of the Condor

Michael Kane was born on March 21, 1922 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Three Days of the Condor (1975), Lonely Are the Brave (1962) and The Bedford Incident (1965). He died on December 14, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

19. Joseph Wiseman

Actor | Dr. No

Joseph Wiseman was born on May 15, 1918 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He came to Broadway in the 1930s, where he was critically hailed for performances in Shakespeare's "King Lear", Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy" and Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". Motion pictures in which Wiseman has been seen include ...

20. James B. Douglas

Actor | The Changeling

James B. Douglas was born on October 12, 1929 in Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa. He was an actor, known for The Changeling (1980), Dead Bang (1989) and The Gong Show Movie (1980). He died on December 29, 2009 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

21. Lou Jacobi

Actor | I.Q.

Lou Jacobi was born on December 28, 1913 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for I.Q. (1994), Irma la Douce (1963) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972). He was married to Ruth Ludwin. He died on October 23, 2009 in Manhattan, New York ...

22. Claude Jutra

Director | Mon oncle Antoine

He finished his medical studies at the age of 22 to please his parents, but he was already developing an attraction to the visual arts and to cinema. As a teenager, he had made two shorts with Michel Brault. In 1953, he wrote a television script. He joined the Office national du film du Canada (...

23. Peter Kastner

Actor | You're a Big Boy Now

Peter Kastner graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in Modern European History. He studied also at UCLA for a Masters degree in that field but put those studies aside to pursue acting work. He was a lifelong learner, most recently teaching himself Yiddish ...

24. Claude Godbout

Producer | Les bons débarras

Claude Godbout was born on January 29, 1941 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is a producer and actor, known for Good Riddance (1980), Platinum (1997) and Comme les six doigts de la main (1978).

25. Christopher Plummer

Actor | Beginners

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...

26. Don Francks

Actor | Heavy Metal

A man who has many irons in the entertainment fire, hirsutely handsome Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician Don Francks (also known as "Iron Buffalo") was born Donald Harvey Francks on February 28, 1932, in Vancouver, British Columbia. One can, with confidence, add drummer, poet, motorcyclist...

27. Michael Sarrazin

Actor | They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Owning a pair of the most incredibly soulful and searching eyes you'll ever find, Michael Sarrazin's poetic drifters crept into Hollywood unobtrusively on little cat's feet, but it didn't take long for him to make his mark. Quiet yet uninhibited, the lean, laconic, fleshy-lipped actor with the ...

28. Paul Bradley

Actor | Goin' Down the Road

Paul Bradley was born on September 2, 1940 in Canada. He was an actor, known for Goin' Down the Road (1970), Cross Country (1983) and The Hard Part Begins (1973). He died in September 2003 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

29. Arthur Hill

Actor | The Andromeda Strain

Canadian-born actor Arthur Hill was raised in the Saskatchewan town of Melfort. The son of a lawyer, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII before receiving his college education at the University of British Columbia. Intending on following in his father's footsteps in the field of...

30. Jacques Gagnon

Actor | Mon oncle Antoine

Jacques Gagnon is known for My Uncle Antoine (1971) and The Death of a Lumberjack (1973).

31. Jean Duceppe

Actor | Mon oncle Antoine

Jean Duceppe was born on October 25, 1923 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for My Uncle Antoine (1971), La mort d'un commis-voyageur (1962) and Terre humaine (1978). He was married to Hélène Rowley. He died on December 7, 1990 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

32. Roy Jenson

Actor | Chinatown

Roy Jenson was born on February 9, 1927 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Chinatown (1974), Soylent Green (1973) and Every Which Way But Loose (1978). He was married to Marina Petrova and Barbara Ann Dionysius. He died on April 24, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

33. Victor Garber

Actor | Argo

Victor Garber has been in some of the most memorable projects of the past four decades. Victor has recently appeared in The Slap (2015), The Flash (2014), Motive (2013) and Web Therapy (2011). He is currently staring in Greg Berlanti's new DC Comics Superhero series "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" for ...

34. Lorne Greene

Actor | Bonanza

Lorne Greene was born Lyon Himan "Chaim" Green on February 12, 1915, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He began acting while attending Canada's Queen's University, and after graduation got a job in radio broadcasting. His rich, deep, authoritarian voice quickly propelled him to prominence as Canada's top...

35. Jean Lapointe

Actor | Le dernier tunnel

Jean Lapointe was born on December 6, 1935 in Price, comté de Matane, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Le dernier tunnel (2004), À l'origine d'un cri (2010) and Duplessis (1978). He was married to Mercédès Vincent, Cécile Morin, Marie Poulin and Madeleine Lockwell. He died on ...

36. Guy Provost

Actor | Sous un ciel variable

As his father had an amateur theatre troup in Hull, he began acting as a child. In the 1940s he became a member of "Les Compagnons de St-Laurent", a theatre troup directed by Father Émile Legault, in which he worked with Gilles Pelletier, Jean Coutu and others. Later going to France, he worked ...

37. Claude Gauthier

Actor | Les ordres

Claude Gauthier was born on January 31, 1939 in Lac-Saguay, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and composer, known for Orders (1974), Entre la mer et l'eau douce (1967) and La guêpe (1986).

38. Allan Kolman

Actor | Pump Up the Volume

Allan Kolman is known for Pump Up the Volume (1990), Shivers (1975) and Air Force One (1997).

39. Donald Sutherland

Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The towering presence of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is often noticed, as are his legendary contributions to cinema. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.

Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint ...

40. Chief Dan George

Actor | Little Big Man

Actor, author, and musician Chief Dan George was born in present-day North Vancouver as Geswanouth Slahoot (later anglicized as 'Dan Slaholt'), the son of a tribal chief on Burrard Indian Reserve Nº. 3. He is the only Aboriginal actor in Canadian history to date with the right to use the title "...

41. John Vernon

Actor | National Lampoon's Animal House

John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally-bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and television since the 1960s. Vernon was directed by some stellar filmmakers, including ...

42. Marcel Sabourin

Soundtrack | C.R.A.Z.Y.

Marcel Sabourin was born on March 25, 1935 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005), The Sum of All Fears (2002) and J.A. Martin photographe (1977).

43. Frank Moore

Actor | Murder at 1600

Frank Moore was born in 1946 in Bay-de-Verde, Newfoundland, Canada. He is an actor, known for Murder at 1600 (1997), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) and Killjoys (2015).

44. Art Hindle

Actor | Porky's

Born in Halifax to a Royal Canadian Navy father, Art's mother soon had him back in their home town of Toronto, Ontario. He grew up in the "Beaches" of Toronto a big fan of Elvis Presley and rock n' roll. Although shy as a child, he grew to be a rebellious and independent teenager. This lead him to ...

45. Henry Beckman

Actor | Marnie

Henry Beckman was born on November 26, 1921 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Marnie (1964), Blood & Guts (1978) and The Brood (1979). He was married to Hillary Beckman and Cheryl Maxwell. He died on June 17, 2008 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

46. Robert A. Silverman

Actor | Jason X

Robert A. Silverman was born on February 24, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor, known for Jason X (2001), Scanners (1981) and The Brood (1979).

47. Dan Aykroyd

Writer | Ghostbusters

Daniel Edward Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Lorraine Hélène (Gougeon), a secretary from a French-Canadian family, and Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer who advised prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Aykroyd attended Carleton University in 1969, where...

48. John Candy

Actor | Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Candy was one of Canada's greatest and funniest character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells but Candy always rebounded.

Born in Newmarket, Ontario, in ...

49. Robert Joy

Actor | Land of the Dead

Robert Joy was born on August 17, 1951 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Land of the Dead (2005), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007).

50. Germain Houde

Actor | Les bons débarras

Germain Houde was born on December 14, 1952. He is an actor, known for Good Riddance (1980), Night Zoo (1987) and The Broken Line (2008).

51. John Colicos

Actor | The Changeling

John Colicos was born on December 10, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Changeling (1980), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and Battlestar Galactica (1978). He was married to Mona McHenry. He died on March 6, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

52. Michael Ironside

Actor | Starship Troopers

Michael Ironside has made a strong and indelible impression with his often incredibly intense and explosive portrayals of fearsome villains throughout the years. He was born as Frederick Reginald Ironside on February 12, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ironside was a successful arm wrestler in ...

53. Stephen Lack

Actor | Scanners

Lack was born 1946 in Montreal, Québec, Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. In 1969, he earned his master of fine arts in sculpture at Universidad Guanajuato in San Miguel, Mexico. Mr. Lack, a world-renowned painter, also acted in nine movies....

54. Lawrence Dane

Actor | Scanners

Lawrence Dane was an exceptionally fine, versatile, and shamefully underrated Canadian character actor who was equally adept at both comedy and drama alike. Tall and lean, with silver gray hair, a gaunt face, and a distinguished air about him, Dane was often cast as smooth business executives, ...

55. William Shatner

Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.

Shatner was born ...

56. James Doohan

Actor | Star Trek

Best known as Scotty in Star Trek he was educated at High School in Sarnia, Ontario, where he acted in school productions.

When WWII began he joined the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery eventually obtaining the rank of Captain. He was wounded on D-Day, suffering severe damage to his right middle...

57. Raymond Burr

Actor | Rear Window

Born Raymond William Stacy Burr on May 21, 1917 in New Westminster, British Columbia, he spent most of his early life traveling. As a youngster, his father moved his family to China, where the elder Burr worked as a trade agent. When the family returned to Canada, Raymond's parents separated. He ...

58. Dave Thomas

Writer | The Blacklist

Born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, Dave was the eldest son of John and Moreen Thomas. John Thomas (deceased) was a PHD in Philosophy (Duke), noted medical ethicist, head of Philosophy Department at McMaster University, and author of several books including: "Matters of Life and Death," "Well ...

59. Alan Thicke

Soundtrack | Growing Pains

Alan Thicke was born on March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Growing Pains (1985), Raising Helen (2004) and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009). He was married to Tanya Callau, Gina Marie Tolleson and Gloria Loring. He died on December 13, 2016 ...

60. Peter Dvorsky

Actor | Videodrome

Peter Dvorsky was born on August 27, 1948. He was an actor, known for Videodrome (1983), The Dead Zone (1983) and Casual Sex? (1988). He died on March 2, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

61. Doug McGrath

Actor | Porky's

Doug McGrath was born on April 13, 1935 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor, known for Porky's (1981), Black Christmas (1974) and Pale Rider (1985).

62. Guy L'Ecuyer

Actor | Au clair de la lune

Guy L'Ecuyer was born on July 26, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Au clair de la lune (1983), La fleur aux dents (1976) and Aux frontières du possible (1971). He was married to Madeleine.. He died on September 20, 1985 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

63. Michel Côté

Actor | C.R.A.Z.Y.

Michel Côté is a French-Canadian actor. He is best known for his performance in the comedy Broue and his role in Omertà. He was born on June 25, 1950 in Alma, Québec, Canada. For his Education, he studied and graduated out of the National Theatre School of Canada in 1973. Michel is best known for ...

64. Michael J. Fox

Actor | Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. His parents moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

65. Tom Burlinson

Actor | The Man from Snowy River

Actor and singer born on 14th February 1956 in Toronto, Canada, from English parents who had migrated to Canada after Word War II. The family transferred to New Jersey in 1958 and Tom was the typical all-American youngster with the Little League baseball cap, striped T-shirt and turned-up jeans. In...

66. Tommy Chong

Actor | Up in Smoke

Tommy Chong was born on May 24, 1938 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Up in Smoke (1978), Zootopia (2016) and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980). He has been married to Shelby Chong since 1975. They have four children. He was previously married to Maxine Sneed.

67. Hume Cronyn

Actor | Cocoon

Hume Cronyn was a Canadian actor with a lengthy career. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Seventh Cross" (1944).

Cronyn was born to a prominent family. His father was politician Hume Blake Cronyn (1864-1933), Member of Parliament for London, ...

68. John Paizs

Director | The Obsession of Billy Botski

John Paizs was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for The Obsession of Billy Botski (1980), Top of the Food Chain (1999) and Crime Wave (1985).

69. John Wildman

Actor | My American Cousin

John Wildman had his first lead role in 1970 in the title role of the NFB award winning short film (Cork Film Festival) The Huntsman, followed by The Christmas Messenger with Richard Chamberlain and The Newcomers with Kenneth Welsh.

After graduating from the Dawson College Theatre Program in ...

70. Darrell Baran

Actor | Crime Wave

Darrell Baran is known for Crime Wave (1985), The Diviners (1993) and The International Style (2021).

71. Rick Moranis

Actor | Parenthood

Rick began his career as a radio DJ while he was still at high school which led to him writing, producing and being on air in his own show. He joined the Canadian TV series, SCTV (1976), winning an Emmy for writing and portraying the character, Bob McKenzie, which became the basis for the film, ...

72. Corey Haim

Actor | The Lost Boys

Corey Haim was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Judy Haim, an Israeli-born data processor, and Bernie Haim, a clothing sales representative. He has a sister, Carol, and a half-brother, Daniel. His family is Jewish. He was raised mostly in Willowdale.

Corey appeared in 26 episodes of the early 1980s ...

73. Gabriel Arcand

Actor | Le démantèlement

Gabriel Arcand was born on June 4, 1949 in Deschambault, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for The Auction (2013), The Decline of the American Empire (1986) and Post Mortem (1999).

74. Yves Jacques

Actor | Les invasions barbares

Yves Jacques was born on May 10, 1956 in Québec, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for The Barbarian Invasions (2003), The Decline of the American Empire (1986) and Napoléon (2002).

75. Aidan Tierney

Actor | Family Viewing

Aidan Tierney is known for Family Viewing (1987).

76. Hrant Alianak

Actor | A Trip to the Island

Khartoum-born Armenian-Canadian actor Hrant Alianak wrote, directed and produced two feature films , Burning, Burning (2015) and A Trip to the Island (2014). He debuted as a writer in 1972 in Toronto with his play "Tantrums". Other plays he has written and directed include his Gangster trilogy, "...

77. Nicholas Campbell

Actor | Da Vinci's Inquest

Nicholas Campbell was born on March 24, 1952 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Da Vinci's Inquest (1998), Cinderella Man (2005) and The Dead Zone (1983).

78. Richard Monette

Actor | Mania

Richard Monette played in small theatre roles, including the British staging of "Oh, Calcutta" in 1967. Achieved great success as a theatre director, becoming first Canadian-born artistic director of the Stratford Festival (Ontario) in 1993. He retired from that role in 2007. He suffered from ...

79. Hart Bochner

Actor | Die Hard

Hart Matthew Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Ruth (Roher), a concert pianist, and Lloyd Bochner, an actor. He is of Russian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish descent. Hart made his feature film debut portraying George C. Scott's son in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream (1977) and ...

80. Roddy Piper

Actor | They Live

Roddy Piper was born Roderick George Toombs on April 17, 1954 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a pro wrestler from 1973-1987 in the NWA, Pacific Northwest, California. He was a longtime mainstay in the WWF, and was one of the biggest "bad guys" in the WWF during the early '80s, before ...

81. R. Bruce Elder

Director | The Art of Worldly Wisdom

R. Bruce Elder was born on June 11, 1947 in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada. He is a director and cinematographer, known for The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979), Lamentations a Monument for the Dead World (1985) and The Book of All the Dead (1997).

82. Lothaire Bluteau

Actor | Vikings

Lothaire Bluteau was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Vikings (2013), Black Robe (1991) and Jesus of Montreal (1989).

83. Gilles Pelletier

Actor | Les invasions barbares

Gilles Pelletier was born on March 22, 1925 in Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Barbarian Invasions (2003), Jesus of Montreal (1989) and R.C.M.P. (1959). He was married to Françoise Graton. He died on September 5, 2018 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

84. Michael McManus

Actor | Lexx

Born in London, Ontario, Canada April 15, 1962, Michael studied acting at the University of Alberta in Canada and the Banff Center for the Fine Arts.

He is an accomplished actor and has been in stage productions in both Canada and the United Kingdom. He has also worked in several movie and ...

85. Kiefer Sutherland

Actor | 24

Kiefer Sutherland was born in London, England, UK, to Canadian actors Shirley Douglas and Donald Sutherland, who moved to California shortly after his birth. His maternal grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who was a Premier of Saskatchewan for over 17 years and led ...

86. Graham Greene

Actor | The Green Mile

Graham Greene was born on June 22, 1952 in Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for The Green Mile (1999), Wind River (2017) and Dances with Wolves (1990). He has been married to Hilary Blackmore since December 20, 1990. They have two children.

87. Matt Craven

Actor | Crimson Tide

Canadian-born actor Matt Craven is among the most sought after character actors of film and television today, starring in such blockbuster critically acclaimed films as the Academy-Award-nominated "Crimson Tide" and "A Few Good Men" and SAG Award nominated "X-Men: First Class." Craven has starred ...

88. Jeremy Cooper

Actor | The Reflecting Skin

Jeremy Cooper was born in March 1980. He is an actor, known for The Reflecting Skin (1990), The Gingerbread Man (1998) and The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003).

89. Michael Ontkean

Actor | Slap Shot

Michael Ontkean, best known for playing the minor league hockey player Ned Braden in the cult classic Slap Shot (1977), was born on January 24, 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents, Leonard and Muriel (née Cooper) Ontkean, were actors. Michael was raised Catholic and attended Catholic ...

90. Elias Koteas

Actor | The Thin Red Line

Elias Koteas was born on March 11, 1961, in Montreal, Canada. Both his parents are of Greek descent. Elias attended Vanier College in Montreal before leaving to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1981, of which he is a graduate. He also attended the Actors Studio in ...

91. Maury Chaykin

Actor | My Cousin Vinny

The award-winning Canadian-American character actor Maury Chaykin was born on July 27, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Professor Irving J. Chaykin and his wife Clarice. Irving Chaykin, an American citizen, taught accountancy at the City College of New York. The former Clarice Bloomfield, his...

92. Michael Kirby

Actor | The Silent Partner

Michael Kirby was born on February 20, 1925 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for The Silent Partner (1978), Summer Holiday (1948) and The Golden Boat (1990). He died on May 25, 2002 in Orange County, California, USA.

93. Mike Myers

Actor | Austin Powers in Goldmember

Michael John Myers was born in 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario, to Alice E. (Hind), an officer supervisor, and Eric Myers, an insurance agent. His parents were both English, and had served in the Royal Air Force and British Army, respectively.

Myers' television career really started in 1988, when he ...

94. Maxime Collin

Actor | Léolo

Maxime Collin was born on December 6, 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor, known for Leolo (1992), Les filles de Caleb (1990) and The Clean Machine (1992).

95. Gilbert Sicotte

Actor | Le vendeur

Gilbert Sicotte was born on February 18, 1948 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor, known for The Salesman (2011), Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008) and And the Birds Rained Down (2019).

96. Eric Schweig

Actor | The Last of the Mohicans

Eric Schweig was born on June 19, 1967 in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada. He is an actor, known for The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Big Eden (2000) and Skins (2002). He was previously married to Leah ?.

97. Robert Joamie

Actor | Map of the Human Heart

Robert Joamie is known for Map of the Human Heart (1992) and Heritage Minutes (1991).

98. Kyle McCulloch

Writer | South Park

Kyle McCulloch was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for South Park (1997), Fired Up! (2009) and Sweetwater Tides (2004).

99. Johnny Morina

Actor | The Boys of St. Vincent

Johnny Morina is known for The Boys of St. Vincent (1992), Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990) and Salt Water Moose (1996).

100. Brent Neale

Actor | Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

Brent Neale was born on April 17, 1963 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is an actor, known for Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002), Careful (1992) and Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988).