List of Famous people born in Canada
Christopher Heyerdahl
Christopher Heyerdahl is a Canadian actor who portrayed the Wraith Todd in Stargate Atlantis, Sam in Van Helsing and "Swede" in Hell on Wheels.
Benjamin Ayres
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.
Laura Mennell
Laura Mennell is a Canadian actress known for her roles in Thirteen Ghosts, Alphas, Haven, Loudermilk, The Man in the High Castle and Watchmen, and Batwoman. In 2011/2012 Mennell co-starred on the Sci-fi television series Alphas. Laura appeared as Charlotte Cross in the fifth season of the SyFy series Haven, and she starred in the comedy series Loudermilk from 2017 to 2020. Despite being best known for her numerous science fiction roles, Mennell says she is not concerned about being typecast.
Janet Kidder
Janet Kidder is a Canadian actress known for her role of Osyraa in Star Trek: Discovery.
Deborah Theaker
Deborah Theaker is a Canadian actress.
Bruce Harwood
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.
Kari Matchett
Kari Matchett is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Colleen Blessed on Power Play, as Joan Campbell on Covert Affairs and as Kate Filmore in the science fiction movie Cube 2: Hypercube. She has also appeared in films such as Apartment Hunting (2000), Angel Eyes (2001), Men with Brooms (2002), Cypher (2002), Civic Duty (2006), The Tree of Life (2011), and Maudie (2016).
Osric Chau
Osric Chau is a Canadian actor and martial artist, best known for his role as Kevin Tran in the CW series Supernatural and Vogel in the BBC America series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
Keith Ashfield
Keith John Ashfield was a Canadian politician. He served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the electoral district of Fredericton from 2008 to 2015 and, before that, was a member of the New Brunswick Legislature from 1999 to 2008. He served in the federal cabinet in various capacities from 2008 to 2013.
Vik Sahay
Vikram "Vik" Sahay, is a Canadian actor of Indian descent best known for playing Kevin Calvin on Radio Active, Lester Patel on the NBC television series Chuck, and Rama in the Roxy Hunter saga.