List of Famous people born in British Columbia, Canada

Magda Apanowicz is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Andy Jensen on the ABC Family series Kyle XY, as Lacy Rand on the short-lived Syfy science fiction drama series Caprica and as Emily on the science fiction series Continuum. Recently, she starred as Sandy in the Netflix thriller series You.

Todd Talbot is a Canadian actor and television personality. He is best known for his work as one of the co-hosts of Love it or List it Vancouver which airs on the W Network in Canada and HGTV in the U.S. Talbot also played the role of Matt Walker in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside which aired on YTV and Nickelodeon.

Kaj-Erik Eriksen is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as David Scali, Danny Farrell in the television series The 4400 and Jeremy Peters in the television series Boston Public.

Luvia Petersen is a Canadian actress best known for her role on the TV series Continuum and Ghost Wars, where she was part of the main cast.

Alaina Kalanj is a Canadian film and television actress. She is also known professionally as Alaina Huffman best known for the Canadian television series Painkiller Jane, where she played the character Maureen Bowers. She also played Dinah Lance/Black Canary on the American television series Smallville, as well as 1st Lt. Tamara Johansen in Stargate Universe, where she was a regular cast member. She also played the demon Abaddon in the American dark fantasy television series Supernatural.

Bruce Harwood is a Canadian character actor best known for his role of John Fitzgerald Byers, one of The Lone Gunmen on the television series The X-Files. In addition to The X-Files, Harwood portrayed Byers in the spin-off series The Lone Gunmen, which aired thirteen episodes in 2001. He has also played other roles with a strong similarity to Byers, such as Willis, a technician from the Phoenix Foundation in MacGyver, and government-scientist-turned-conspiracy-theorist Dr. Avery Strong in The Outer Limits. He was a founding member of the Vancouver summer Shakespeare festival, Bard on the Beach. He also starred in the 1988 movie Earth Star Voyager.

Aliza Vellani is a Canadian television actress based in British Columbia with over a decade of work experience in the Film & TV industry both within Canada and the United States. She is best known for her first role on the hit CBC television series Little Mosque on the Prairie. Vellani's other works include The X-Files, Riverdale and Marvel's Super Hero Adventures. Her most recent role will be playing Rani Singh in the upcoming Netflix series, Sweet Tooth.

Alison Dyan Liebert is a Canadian actress, model and producer. She was a recipient of a Canadian Screen Award for work in the wartime series Bomb Girls.

Brendan Fletcher is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer who has appeared in film, television and theatre. He first gained recognition as a child actor, winning a Leo Award and being nominated for a Gemini Award his acting debut in the made-for-television film Little Criminals. He subsequently won the Genie Award for Best Leading Actor for John Greyson’s The Law of Enclosures, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Turning Paige.

Benjamin James Ayres is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Dr. Zach Miller of the CTV series Saving Hope. He also recurred on the Gemini Award–winning HBO Canada series Less Than Kind for which he has nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. His first series regular role was Casper Jesperson, the chain-smoking sex addict who is morbidly obsessed with death, in the critically acclaimed cult hit CBC Television series jPod, based on the Douglas Coupland novel of the same title.