Businesspeople, Politicians & Public Figures Aitken, William Maxwell : Publisher, Politician. Newspaper Magnate Black, Conrad: Publisher (owns newspapers worldwide, including London’s Daily Telegraph) Bombardier, Joseph-Armand : Engineer, Businessman (invented the Ski-doo) Bronfman Family : Business Dynasty (own Seagram Co. and Universal Studios) Cooke, Jack Kent : (owns the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Daily News) Cunard, Sir Samuel : Businessman (founder of Cunard shipping line) Eaton, Cyrus : Industrialist (co-founder of the Pugwash Conferences) Hill, James J .: Businessman (built the Great Northern Railroad) Mayer, Louis B .: Studio Executive, Producer (co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Pearson, Lester B .: Politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner Reichman Brothers : Real Estate Developers (Canary Wharf project in London) Trudeau, Pierre Elliott : Politician (former Prime Minister) Warner, Jack : Studio Executive, Producer (co-founder of Warner Bros.) Irving, K.C .: Industrialist (founder of Irving Holdings) Znaimer, Moses : TV Mogul Actors, Actresses, Comedians & Other Entertainers Anderson, Pamela : Actress (“Baywatch”, “Barb Wire”, “VIP”) Augustyn, Frank : Ballet Dancer Aykroyd, Dan : Comedian, Actor (“Saturday Night Live”, “The Blues Brothers”) Bain, Conrad : Actor (“Diff’rent Strokes”, “Maude”) Bairstow, Scott : Actor (“Lonesome Dove: The Series”) Beach, Adam : Actor (“Windtalkers”; Smoke Signals”; “Dance Me Outside”) Bellows, Gil – Actor (“Ally McBeal”, “The Assistant”) Bennett, Nigel : Actor (“Forever Knight”) Blanchard, Rachel : Actress (“Clueless”) Bluteau, Lothaire : Actor (“Jesus of Montreal”, “Black Robe”) Bochner, Lloyd : Actor (“Dynasty”, “Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear”) Brown, Blair : Actress (“The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd”, “The Choirboys”) Bujold, Genevieve : Actress (“Anne of a Thousand Days”, “Dead Ringers”, “Coma”) Burr, Raymond : Actor (“Perry Mason”, “Ironside”) Burroughs, Jackie : Actress (“The Grey Fox”, “John and the Missus”, “Anne of Green Gables”) Campbell, Neve : Actress (“Party of Five”, “Scream”) Candy, John : Comedian, Actor (“SCTV”, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Uncle Buck”) Cardinal, Tantoo : Actress (“Black Robe”, “Dances with Wolves”, “Legends of the Fall”) Cariou, Len : Actor (“A Little Night Music”) Carrey, Jim : Comedian, Actor (“The Mask”, “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”, “The Truman Show”, “Cable Guy”, “Man in the Moon”, “In Living Color”) Carson, Jack : Actor (“Mildred Pierce”, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”) Cattrall, Kim : Actress (“Star Trek VI, Sex and the City”, “Outer Limits”) Chaykin, Maury : Actor (“Dances with Wolves”, “Whale Music”, “Buried on Sunday”) Chong, Thomas : Comedian, Actor (Cheech and Chong, “McHale’s Navy”) Clark, Susan : Actress (“Webster”, “Amelia Earhart”, “Babe”) Colicos, John : Actor (“Anne of a Thousand Days”, “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, “Star Trek”, “Battlestar Galactica”) Coombs, Ernie : Children’s TV Show Host (“Mr. Dressup”) Crewson, Wendy : Actress (“Getting Married in Buffalo Jump”, “The Doctor”) Cronyn, Hume : Actor (“Shadow of a Doubt”, “Sunrise at Campobello”, “Cocoon”) Cruise, Tom : Actor (“Rainman”, “Far and Away”, “Interview With A Vampire”, “The Firm”, “M:I2”) Czerny, Henry : Actor (“The Ice Storm”, “When Night is Falling, “Clear and Present Danger”, “The Boys of St. Vencent”) Davies, Geraint Wyn : Actor (“Forever Knight”) Davis, William B. : Actor (“X-files”) De Carlo, Yvonne : Actress (“The Munsters”, “Salome, Where She Danced”) Dewhurst, Colleen : Actress (“Anne of Green Gables”, “Murphy Brown”, “Annie Hall”) Dionne Quintuplets : (first quintuplets known to have survived infancy, appeared in three films, featured for public viewing in a theme park called Quintland) Doohan, James : Actor (“Star Trek”) Douglas, Shirley : Actress (“Lolita”, “The Wars”, “Wind at my Back”) Dressler, Marie : Actress, Comedienne (“Tillie’s Punctured Romance”, “Anna Christie”, “Min and Bill”, “Dinner at Eight”) Dupuis, Roy : Actor (“Jesus of Montreal”) Durbin, Deanna : Actress (“Three Smart Girls”, “That Certain Age”) Elliott, David James : Actor (“Melrose Place”, “JAG”) Evangelista, Linda : Super Model Flatman, Barry : Actor (“Open Season,” “The Cutting Edge”) Foley, David : Comedian, Actor (“Kids in the Hall”, “News Radio”) Follows, Megan : Actress (“Anne of Green Gables”) Ford, Glenn : Actor (“Gilda”, “The Big Heat”, “The Blackboard Jungle”) Fox, Michael J. : Actor (“Back to the Future”, “Family Ties”, “Spin City”) Francks, Don : Actor (“Dinner at Fred’s”, “Harriet the Spy”) Fraser, Brendan : Actor (“Gods and Monsters”, “The Mummy”, “With Honours”, “George of the Jungle”) Frewer, Matt : Actor (played “Max Headroom”, “Doctor, Doctor”, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”)Frid, Jonathan : Actor (“Dark Shadows”) Garber, Victor : Broadway, Film and TV Actor (“Titanic”) George, Chief Dan : Actor (“Little Big Man”, “The Outlaw Josey Wales”) Gerussi, Bruno : Actor (“Beachcombers”, “The Hitman”) Greene, Graham : Actor (“Dances with Wolves”) Greene, Lorne : Actor (“Bonanza”, “Battlestar Galactica”) Greenwood, Bruce : Actor (“Exotica”, “St. Elsewhere”, “Nowhere Man”) Griffiths, Linda : Actress, Writer (“Maggie and Pierre”, “Reno and the Doc”) Gross, Paul : Actor (“Due South”, “Buried on Sunday”) Haim, Corey : Actor (“The Lost Boys”, “Snowboard Academy”) Hall, Monty : Game Show Host (“Let’s Make A Deal”) Harron, Don : Actor, Comedian (“Hee Haw”), Author (a.k.a.: Charlie Farquharson) Hartman, Phil : Actor, Comedian (“Saturday Night Live”, “News Radio”, “The Simpsons” [voice]) Hennessy, Jill : Actress (“Law and Order”, Crossing Jordan”) Henning, Doug : Magician Henstridge, Natasha : Actress (“Species”) Hill, Arthur : Actor (“The Andromeda Strain”, “A Bridge Too Far”) Huston, Walter : Actor (“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, “Dodsworth”, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”) Hyslop, Jeff : Actor (“The Wars”) Ireland, John : Actor (“All the King’s Men”, “Spartacus”) Ironside, Michael : Actor (“Scanners”, “Top Gun”, “Total Recall”) Ito, Robert : Actor (“Quincy”) Jackson, Joshua : Actor (“Dawson’s Creek”, “Cruel Intentions”) Jackson, Tom : Actor, Musician (“North of 60”, “The Diviners”) Jacobi, Lou : Actor (“Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex …”, “I.Q.”) Johansson, Paul : Actor (“Lonesome Dove”, “Beverley Hills 90210”) Kain, Karen : Ballet Dancer Keeler, Ruby : Actress, Singer, Tap Dancer (“42nd Street”, “Dames”) Kidder, Margot : Actress. (“Superman”) Kirshner, Mia: Actress (“Exotica”, “Love and Human Remains”, “Mad City”, “Anna Karenina”) Kuzyk, Mimi : Actress (“Hill Street Blues”, “L.A. Law”) Laure, Carole : Actress (“Get Out Your Hankerchiefs”, “La Tête de Normande St-Onge”) Le Cirque du Soleil : Avant Garde Circus Levy, Eugene : Comedian, Actor (“SCTV”) Lillie, Beatrice : Actress (“Exit Smiling”, “On Approval”, “Thoroughly Modern Millie”) Linkletter, Art: Television Show Host, Author, Radio Broadcaster (“Kids Say the Darndest Things”) Little, Rich : Impressionist. Lockhart, Gene: Actor (“Abe Lincoln in Illinois”, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, “His Girl Friday”, “Algiers”) MacDonald, Norm : Comedian, Actor (“Saturday Night Live”, “Norm”) MacInnes, Angus : Actor (“Judge Dredd”, “Witness”) Mandel, Howie : Comedian, Actor (“St. Elsewhere”) Martin, Andrea : Comedienne, Actress (“SCTV”, “Star Trek: DS9”) Manners, David : Actor, Author (“Dracula” (1930), “The Mummy”) Massey, Raymond : Actor (“Abe Lincoln in Illinois”, “East of Eden”, “The Naked and the Dead”) Maxwell, Lois : Actress (played Moneypenny in the James Bond movies) McCarthy, Sheila : Actress (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”, “Die Hard 2”, “Beautiful Dreamers”) McCormack, Eric : Actor (“Will & Grace”, “Street Justice”) McCulloch, Bruce : Comedian (“Kids in the Hall”) McDonald, Kevin : Actor, Comedian (“Kids in the Hall”, “That 70’s Show”) McKellar, Don : Actor, Writer (“Roadkill”, “The Red Violin”, “Last Night”, “Twitch City”) McKinney, Mark : Comedian (“Kids in the Hall”, “Saturday Night Live”) McLerie, Allyn : Actress, Singer, Dancer (“The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd”) Montgomery, Belinda J. : Actress (“The Man From Atlantis”, “Doogie Howser MD”) Moranis, Rick : Comedian, Actor (“SCTV”, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”) Morgenstern , Stephanie: Actress, Filmmaker “”The Sweet Hereafter”, “P.T. Barnum”) Morse, Barry : Actor (“The Fugitive”, “Space 1999”) Moss, Carrie-Anne : Actress (“The Matrix”, “Memento”) Myers, Mike : Comedian, Actor (“Saturday Night Live”, “Wayne’s World”, “Austin Powers”) Nelligan, Kate : Actress (“The Prince of Tides”, “Fatal Instinct”) Neville, John : Actor (“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”) Nielsen, Leslie : Actor (“The Naked Gun”, “Forbidden Planet”) Oh, Sandra : Actress (“Double Happiness”, “The Red Violin”, “Last Night”) O’Hara, Catherine : Actress (“SCTV” “Beetlejuice”, “Home Alone”) Ontkean, Michael : Actor (“The Rookies”, “Twin Peaks”) Paquin, Anna : Actress (“The Piano”, “Jane Eyre”, “Amistad”, “X-Men”) Parker, Molly : Actress (“Kissed”, “Twitch City”, “Sunshine”) Perry, Matthew : Actor (“Friends”) Pickford, Mary : Actress (“Little Lord Fauntleroy”, “Coquette”, known as “America’s Sweetheart”) Pidgeon, Walter : Actor (“How Green Was My Valley”, “Forbidden Planet”) Pinsent, Gordon : Actor, Writer (“The Rowdy Man”, “Who has Seen the Wind?”, “John and the Missus”, “Due South”) Plummer, Christopher: Actor (“The Sound of Music”, “Star Trek VI”) Podemski, Tamara : Actress (“Rent” on Broadway; “The Rez”) Polley, Sarah : Actress (“Anne of Green Gables, “Exotica”, “The Sweet Hereafter”, “Go”) Potter, Chris : Actor (“Kung Fu: The Legend Continues”) Priestley, Jason : Actor (“Beverly Hills 90210”) Progosh, Tim : Actor (“Back in Action”, “Adventures of Sinbad”) Qualen, John: Actor (“Casablanca”, “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, “The Searchers”, “Anatomy of a Murder”) Reeves, Keanu : Actor (“Johnny Mnemonic”, “Speed”, “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure”) Reid, Kate : Actress (“Dallas”, “Bye Bye Blues”, “The Andromeda Strain”, “A Delicate Balance”) Regehr, Duncan : Actor (“Zorro”, “The Legend of Errol Flynn”) Rennie, Callum Keith : Actor (“Double Happiness”, “Last Night”) Reuben, Gloria : Actress (“ER”) Rhodes, Donnelly : Actor (“Soap”, “Danger Bay”, “The Young and the Restless”) Robertson, Kathleen : Actress (“Beverly Hills 90210”) Rubinek, Saul : Actor (“Unforgiven”, “The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”) Russell, Harold : Actor (“The Best Years of Our Lives”) Ryan, Thomas Jay : Actor (“Henry Fool”) Sarrazin, Michael : Actor (“They Shoot Horses Don’t They?”, “Joshua Then and Now”) Sawa, Devon : Actor (“Caspar”) Schellenberg, August : Actor (“Free Willy”, “Black Robe”) Schnarre, Monika : Actress, Model (“The Bold and the Beautiful”) Sennett, Mack : Director, Comedian, Actor, Producer (“Tillie’s Punctured Romance”) Shatner, William : Actor (“Star Trek”) Shaver, Helen : Actress (“Who has Seen the Wind?”, “Desert Hearts”) Shearer, Douglas : Sound recording pioneer (won 13 Oscars) Shearer, Norma : Actress (“The Divorcee”, “The Barretts of Wimpole Street”) Short, Martin : Comedian, Actor (“SCTV”, “Saturday Night Live”, “Clifford”, “Captain Ron”, “Three Amigos”) Shuster, Frank : Comedian (“Wayne and Shuster”, “Ed Sullivan Show”) Silverheels, Jay : Actor (“The Lone Ranger”, “Key Largo”) Singer, Marc : Actor (“V”, “Beastmaster”) Smith, Alexis : Actress (“The Constant Nymph”, “Rhapsody in Blue”, “Of Human Bondage”) Soles, Paul : original voice of Spiderman Steen, Jessica : Actress (“Armageddon”, “Trial and Error”) Steinberg, David : Comedian, Actor, Director (“Designing Women”) Stratton, Dorothy : Actress (“Star 80”) Sutherland, Donald : Actor (“M*A*S*H”, “Klute”, “Ordinary People”, “Eye of the Needle”, “Bethune”) Sutherland, Kiefer : Actor, Director (“The Bay Boy”, “Stand By Me”, “A Few Good Men”, “Flatliners”) Tennant, Veronica : Ballet Dancer Thicke, Alan : Actor, Talk Show Host (“Hope and Gloria”, “The Alan Thicke Show”, “Growing Pains”) Thomas, Dave : Actor, Comedian (“SCTV”, “Strange Brew”, “Grace Under Fire”) Thompson, R.H. : Actor (“Road to Avonlea”, “Moonlighting”) Thompson, Scott : Comedian (“Kids in the Hall”) Tilly, Jennifer : Actress (“Bullets Over Broadway”) Tilly, Meg : Actress (“The Big Chill”, “Agnes of God”) Trebek, Alex : Game Show Host (“Jeopardy”) Tweed, Shannon : Actress (“Falcon Crest”) Unger, Deborah : Actress (“Crash”, The Hurricane”) Vernon, John : Actor (“Animal House”, “Dirty Harry”) Waxman, Al : Actor (“Cagney and Lacey”, “King of Kensington”) Wayne, Johnny : Comedian (“Wayne and Shuster”, “Ed Sullivan Show”) Welsh, Kenneth : Actor (“Twin Peaks”, “Whale Music”, “Legends of the Fall”) Wincott, Jeff : Actor (“Night Heat”) Wincott, Michael : Actor (“The Crow”, “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves”, “1492, Conquest of Paradise”) Wiseman, Joseph : Actor (“The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz”, “Dr. No”) Wray, Fay: Actress (“King Kong”) Zegers, Kevin : Actor (“Traders”, “Air Bud”) |