List of Famous people born in Canada
Lauren Lee Smith
Lauren Lee Smith is a Canadian actress. She is known for her television roles, including Emma DeLauro in the syndicated fantasy drama Mutant X, Riley Adams in the CBS forensics drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, police Sergeant Michelle McCluskey in the CTV fantasy drama The Listener, and Frankie Drake in the CBC detective series Frankie Drake Mysteries.
Oliver Platt
Oliver James Platt is a Canadian-born American film, television, and stage actor. He has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
Geneviève Jeanson
Geneviève Jeanson is a former professional bicycle racer from Quebec, Canada. She won the world junior road and time trial championships in 1999 and the Tour de Snowy in 2000. Later that year she won La Flèche Wallonne World Cup race. She joined the Canadian Olympic team that year. She acknowledged in a documentary on Radio-Canada on September 20, 2007, that she had been administered EPO more or less continuously since she was 16 years old.
Louise Portal
Louise Portal is a Canadian actress, film director, singer and writer. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film The Decline of the American Empire, and was a nominee for Best Actress for Sous-sol .
Élise Guilbault
Élise Guilbault is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Woman Who Drinks , and was a nominee for Cap Tourmente. She also starred in several later films by The Woman Who Drinks director Bernard Émond, also appearing in The Novena , The Legacy and A Place to Live .
Brendan Fehr
Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying Michael Guerin in the WB television series Roswell, and for portraying lab tech Dan Cooper in CSI: Miami. In 2008, Fehr won a Gemini Award for "Hottest Canadian Male TV Star". Fehr also played Dr. Drew Alister on the NBC drama The Night Shift. His next film is the survival / adventure drama, Brotherhood.
Clémence DesRochers
Clémence DesRochers OC is a Canadian actress, humorist, singer, and author.
Dédé Fortin
André "Dédé" Fortin was a founding member, frontman, and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990.
Lou Angotti
Louis Frederick Angotti was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues from 1964 to 1974.
August Schellenberg
August Werner Schellenberg was a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He played Randolph in the first three installments of the Free Willy film series (1993–1997) as well as characters in Black Robe (1991), The New World (2005), and dozens of other films and television shows.