Famous Canadian Actors and Actresses

Actors
Alan Thicke	Father in "Growing Pains", was a musician at one time.
Barry Morse	The lieutenant who chased the Fugitive across America (original series)
Chief Dan George	Native actor
Christopher Plummer	stage, screen and TV  "Dreamscape", "Star Trek VI" "Sound of Music"
Conrad Bain	Played the father in TVs "Different Strokes"  Has a twin brother.
Dan Ackroyd	1/2 of the Blues Brothers
Dave Thomas	Comedian, actor.  SCTV, "Grace Under Fire".  Brother to Ian Thomas, musician
David Foley	Comedian, "Kids in the Hall", "Newsradio", "Will and Grace"
David James Elliott	"JAG", Close to Home
David Steinberg	Comedian, director.  "Designing Women"
Donald Sutherland	Father to Keifer, "MASH", "JFK", "Backdraft", Dirty Dozen, Klute
Donnelly Rhodes	"Soap", "Danger Bay", "Young and the Restless", "da Vinci's Inquest"
Elisha Cuthbert	Cute blond that played Keifer Sutherland's daughter in "24"
Eugene Levy	Comedian, SNL, SCTV, lots of movies
Glenn Ford	Clark Kent's adoptive father in "Superman", over 100 movies, many of them cowboy.
Graham Greene	Native,  the chief in "Dances With Wolves"
Henry Czerny	"The Ice Storm"
Hume Cronyn	"Cocoon"
James Doohan	Scotty on Star Trek, Scots are convinced he was born in THEIR country.
Jason Priestley	"90210"
Jim Carrey	comedian, "The Mask", "Ace Ventura" "The Grinch"
John Candy	Second City comedian, "Uncle Buck", "Silent Running"
John Colicos	"Anne of a Thousand Days", "Postman Always Rings Twice", first Klingon on Star Trek
John Vernon	"Animal House", "Dirty Harry"
Keanu Reeves	Not born in Canada but lived here and considers himself a citizen
Keifer Sutherland	Son of Donald, He is Jack Bauer of 24.  Was in Young Guns.
Kenneth Welsh	"Twin Peaks", "Legends of the Fall"
Leslie Neilson	"Airplane", "Naked Gun"
Lloyd Bochner	"Dynasty", "Naked Gun 2-1/2"
Lorne Green	Pa Cartwright, worked as announcer for the CBC before that, "Battlestar Galactica"
Martin Short	Comedian, SCTV and SNL
Mathew Perry	"Friends"
Matt Frewer	"Max Headroom", Star Trek TNG", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
Michael Ironside	"Scanners", "Total Recall", lots of made for TV movies.  Always the "heavy"
Michael J. Fox	"Family Ties", "Spin City", "Teen Wolf" and all those "Back to the Future" movies
Mike Myers	"Wayne's World", Shrek, Austin Powers, has 3 dogs named after hockey players.
Orson Welles	Director.  "Citizen Kane", "War of the Worlds"
Paul Gross	"Due South"  He's a great singer too.
Phil Hartman	comedian, "Newsradio", "SNL", "The Simpsons (Hi, I'm Troy McLure)"
R.H. Thomson	"Road to Avonlea", "Moonlighting"
Rae Dawn Chong	Daughter of Tommy Chong.
Raymond Burr	"Ironside", "Perry Mason"
Raymond Massey	"Abe Lincoln in Illinois", "East of Eden", "Naked and the Dead".  Brother was a diplomat.
Rick Moranis	SCTV, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"
Robert Ito	"Quincy", his sidekick assistant
Rod Cameron	actor
Saul Rubinek	"Unforgiven", "Star Trek TNG", Daphne's husband on "Frasier"
Tommy Chong	1/2 of Cheech and Chong
Victor Garber	"Titanic", and a whole slew of television movies
Walter Pidgeon	"How Green Was My Valley", "Forbidden Planet"
William Shatner	Captain Kirk of Star Trek, "911", "T.J.Hooker", author, comedian, director, producer, advertiser
Actresses
Catherine O'Hara	SCTV and mother in "Home Alone"
Colleen Dewhurst	actress, "Anne of Green Gables", "Murphy Brown"
Elisha Cuthbert	Jack Bauer's daughter on 24, born in Calgary.
Fay Wray	actress, "King Kong", died Aug 8, 2004
Genevieve Bujold	actress, "Dead Ringers", "Coma", "Anne of One Thousand Days"
Jill Hennessy	actress, "Law and Order", got killed in the car accident-in the show.  Cute, cute, cute.
Kate Nelligen	actress, "Prince of Tides", "US Marshals"
Kim Cattral	"Sex in the City", "Star Trek VI", "Outer Limits"
Margot Kidder	Lois Lane in Superman movies
Mary Pickford	actress, called "America's Sweetheart" of the silent screen, married Douglas Fairbanks, founded United Artists, died 1979
Megan Follows	actress, "Anne of Green Gables"
Neve Campbell	actress, "Party of Five"
Pamela Anderson Lee	Baywatch woman and all the rest.  Definitely a woman.
Wendy Crewson
Jennifer Finnigan	Good looking blonde, but mean prosecutor star of Close to Home.
Other
Atom Egoyan	movie director, 1998 Academy Award nominee
David Cronenberg	director, writer, "The Fly", "Dead Ringers"
James Cameron	Director, "Titanic", "Terminator"
Norman Jewison	director, producer, "Fiddler on the Roof", "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Heat of the Night" - winner of 5 Academy Awards
Steve Smith	the genius Red Green, director, comedian, writer, producer.  Canada's Milton Berle.
Writers
David Shore	Writes, produces, does screenplay for House, the television program. From London, ON.
Homer Simpson	The creator (Matt Groening) of the series was born in Canada.  He said Homer must be Canadian then.
Rene Balcer	Producer Law and Order