List of Famous people born in Ontario, Canada
Walter Huston
Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston, Danny Huston, Allegra Huston, and great-grandchild Jack Huston. The family has produced three generations of Academy Award winners: Walter, his son John, and John's daughter Anjelica.
Ted Kotcheff
William Theodore Kotcheff is a Canadian film and television director and producer, known primarily for his work on British and American television productions such as Armchair Theatre and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He has also directed numerous successful films including the Australian Wake in Fright (1971), action films such as the original Rambo movie First Blood (1982) and Uncommon Valor (1983), and comedies like Weekend at Bernie's (1989), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), and North Dallas Forty (1979). He is sometimes credited as William T. Kotcheff, and resides in Beverly Hills, California. Given his ancestry, Kotcheff has Bulgarian citizenship.
Howard Engel
Howard Engel CM was a Canadian mystery author and CBC producer who resided in Toronto, Ontario. He was famous for his Benny Cooperman detective series, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario, mirroring St. Catharines, Ontario, where he was born. He was one of the founding authors of Crime Writers Of Canada in 1982.
Lexa Doig
Alexandra Lecciones Doig is a Canadian actress. She portrayed the title role in the 2000–2005 Canadian-American science fiction-adventure television series Andromeda. She also portrayed the female lead role of Rowan in the science fiction-action horror film Jason X (2001), the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th film series. Since 2015, Doig has appeared in the Aurora Teagarden mystery television film series on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel.
Noah Danby
Noah Dalton Danby is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Connor King in the series Painkiller Jane.
Stephen Lobo
Stephen Lobo is a Canadian-British actor, best known for his roles in the television series Arctic Air, Godiva's, Painkiller Jane, Falcon Beach, Little Mosque on the Prairie and Continuum. In 2011, he appeared in Mike Clattenburg's film Afghan Luke.
John Kerr
John Kerr is a Canadian sailor and publisher. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1973.
Lolita Davidovich
Lolita Davidovich is a Canadian actress, best known for her breakthrough title role as Blaze Starr in the 1989 film Blaze, for which she received Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination.
Alberta Watson
Faith Susan Alberta Watson, better known as Alberta Watson, was a Canadian film and television actress.
Tasya Teles
Tasya Teles is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as Echo in The CW's The 100. Teles has also played Kendra in DirecTV's Rogue and Daniella in BBC America's Intruders.