Famous Canadian Actors and ActressesFamous 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. |