List of Famous people born in Ontario, Canada

Walter Huston

Walter Houghston
First Name Walter
Last Name Huston
Died on April 7, 1950
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 183 cm | 6'0

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.

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Ted Kotcheff

First Name Ted
Born on April 7, 1931 (age 95)
Born in Canada, Ontario

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.

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Howard Engel

First Name Howard
Last Name Engel
Born on April 2, 1931
Died on July 17, 2019 (aged 88)
Born in Canada, Ontario

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.

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Lexa Doig

Alexandra Lecciones Doig
First Name Lexa
Born on June 8, 1973 (age 53)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 165 cm | 5'5

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.

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Noah Danby

First Name Noah
Last Name Danby
Born on April 24, 1974 (age 52)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 191 cm | 6'3

Noah Dalton Danby is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Connor King in the series Painkiller Jane.

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Stephen Lobo

First Name Stephen
Last Name Lobo
Born on November 22, 1973 (age 52)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 178 cm | 5'10

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.

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John Kerr

First Name John
Last Name Kerr
Born on August 9, 1951 (age 74)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 183 cm | 6'0

John Kerr is a Canadian sailor and publisher. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1973.

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Lolita Davidovich

First Name Lolita
Born on July 15, 1961 (age 64)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 168 cm | 5'6

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.

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Alberta Watson

First Name Alberta
Last Name Watson
Born on March 6, 1955
Died on March 21, 2015 (aged 60)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Faith Susan Alberta Watson, better known as Alberta Watson, was a Canadian film and television actress.

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Tasya Teles

First Name Tasya
Born on February 1, 1985 (age 41)
Born in Canada, Ontario
Height 175 cm | 5'9

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.

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