Canada 150: 150 Canadian Actresses
by margannlaurissa25 | created - 02 Jul 2017 | updated - 03 Jul 2017 | PublicFor Canada's 150th birthday, I have compiled a list of 150 Canadian actresses. Enjoy! :)
1. A.J. Cook
Actress | Criminal Minds
Canadian born actress/director, AJ is best known for her role as "Special Agent Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau" in the CBS long running series CRIMINAL MINDS. She can currently be seen reprising her role on CRIMINAL MINDS: EVOLUTION for Paramount+, which will be going into a second season later this year. AJ...
2. Aislinn Paul
Actress | Heroes Reborn
Aislinn Paul was born on March 5, 1994 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Aislinn is best-known for her role as "Clare Edwards" on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001). She was a recurring character in seasons 6-7, becoming a regular character in season 8 up to season 14. Most recently seen in NBC's mini...
3. Alexa Rose Steele
Actress | Jann
Alex Steele was born on July 3rd, 1995 in Toronto, Ontario. She is best known for her role as "Tori" on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001), but was first seen on the show as "Angela". She co-starred in The Choking Game (2014) as "Nina", a movie revealing the dangers in self suffocation, and as "...
4. Alicia Dea Josipovic
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Alicia Dea Josipovic can dance, act and sing. She was named after her 'Nonna' Dea, an accomplished fashion designer and opera singer.
At the age of five, she first began performing on stage as a dancer. Alicia danced competitively for eight years, winning numerous competitions. She also loved to ...
5. Alison Pill
Actress | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Alison Pill was most recently seen in HELLO TOMORROW! for Apple TV+. She previously starred in the CBS All Access series, STAR TREK: PICARD, Alex Garland's FX miniseries, DEVS, and the Amazon series, THEM. Pill's other television work includes Ryan Murphy's AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT, the ABC ...
6. Amanda Arcuri
Actress | Fingernails
Amanda Arcuri was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Fingernails (2023), Party of Five (2020) and Do Not Reply (2019).
7. Ana Golja
Actress | The Fanatic
Ana was born in Toronto, Canada on January 31st 1996. At the age of 5, Ana started to dance, and her love for performing grew stronger as she grew older. She began acting at the age of 9, and landed her first audition by playing Lucy in "1-800 Missing". From there, Ana went on to play a variety of ...
8. Andrea Lewis
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Andrea Lewis was born on August 15, 1985 in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001), Black Actress (2013) and Cadet Kelly (2002). She has been married to Felix Howard since October 28, 2021.
9. Angela Featherstone
Actress | The Wedding Singer
Within a year of emancipating herself from foster care at 17, Angela Featherstone became Canada's top model when her September, Flare magazine cover broke all prior sales records. She quickly expanded upon her success and left for New York, where she signed with NEXT modeling agency. Angela ...
10. Anna Paquin
Actress | The Piano
Anna Paquin is the first millennial to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting, and the first to win.
She was born on July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mary (Brophy), an English teacher from Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a Canadian phys-ed teacher. Anna moved ...
11. Annie Clark
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Annie Clark was born on June 4, 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001), Ghosts of Christmas Past (2021) and Love Hacks (2023).
12. Arsinée Khanjian
Actress | Ararat
Arsinée Khanjian was born on September 6, 1958 in Beirut, Lebanon. She is an actress and producer, known for Ararat (2002), Exotica (1994) and The Captive (2014). She is married to Atom Egoyan. They have one child.
13. Aryana Engineer
Actress | Resident Evil: Retribution
Aryana Engineer was born on March 6, 2001 in British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), Orphan (2009) and Dreaming of Peggy Lee (2015).
14. Ashley Leggat
Actress | Life with Derek
Ashley Leggat, a twice Gemini nominated actress, was born into a large family in Hamilton, Ontario. She joined her parents, Roy (a car dealer) and Patty (a former Secondary School teacher) and four older brothers -Rob, Brett, and twins Todd and Bram.
Ashley's four brothers, all very athletic, played...
15. Carly Pope
Actress | Elysium
Carly graduated from high school in Vancouver in 1998. She made her American screen debut in I've Been Waiting for You (1998). Her most noticeable roles to date are "Molly White" in Trapped in a Purple Haze (2000), and "Sam McPherson" in TV's Popular (1999). She auditioned for roles on Roswell (...
16. Carole Laure
Actress | Les fils de Marie
Before she became an actress Carole Laure was a teacher. She was born on August 5, 1950 in Montreal (Québec) Canada. The profession she has chosen did not give her any satisfaction. She met some young Canadian film makers, that resulted in her first appearance as an actress, age twenty, in Mon ...
17. Caroline Dhavernas
Actress | Hannibal
Caroline Dhavernas commands the attention of filmgoers and television viewers with her beauty, talent and poise. Beginning her career at age 11, the Montreal native is already an acclaimed young actress who has also made her mark in Hollywood. She is the recipient of two Gemeaux Awards, one for "...
18. Caroline Rhea
Actress | The Perfect Man
Caroline Rhea was born on April 13, 1964 in Westmount, Québec, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for The Perfect Man (2005), Christmas with the Kranks (2004) and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996).
19. Carrie-Anne Moss
Actress | The Matrix
Carrie-Anne Moss was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. At age 20, after studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she moved to Europe to pursue a career in modeling. While in Spain she was cast in the TV show Dark Justice which was produced in Barcelona for its first season and Los ...
20. Cassie Steele
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Toronto native Cassie Steele joins the cast of THE L.A. COMPLEX as Abby. The aspiring Canadian actress is best known for her role as Manny Santos on 10 seasons of the internationally acclaimed drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. Cassie was a 2003 nominee and the 2002 winner of a Young ...
21. Caterina Scorsone
Actress | The November Man
Caterina Scorsone has been a professional actress since the age of eight, when she was a regular on the daytime children's program Mr. Dressup (1967) for Canada's CBC. A veteran of series television, her other series credits include Shock Treatment (2004), Once a Thief (1996) and Power Play (1998),...
22. Catherine Mary Stewart
Actress | The Last Starfighter
Catherine Mary Stewart's career has spanned more than 30 years and over 50 different productions, from film to television to theater, in England, Canada and the United States. She was living in London studying dance, acting and singing when she was cast in her first professional acting role as the ...
23. Catherine O'Hara
Actress | A Mighty Wind
Canadian actress, writer, and comedian, Catherine O'Hara gained recognition as one of the original cast members on the Canadian television sketch comedy show SCTV (1976). On the series, she impersonated the likes of Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker, Gilda Radner, Katharine Hepburn, and Brooke Shields...
24. Charlotte Arnold
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Charlotte Arnold is an actress, born July 27, 1989, in Toronto, Canada. She is perhaps best known for playing Holly J. Sinclair on the acclaimed teen series Degrassi from 2007-2012. In her tenure on the show, she won a Gemini for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series (2010), ...
25. Chloe Rose
Actress | Teenagers
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Chloe is best known for her breakout role as Katie Matlin on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001). Following Degrassi, Chloe received acclaim for her performance in Teenagers (2014). She has also starred in feature films, including The Lesser Blessed (2012), ...
26. Christina Cox
Actress | The Chronicles of Riddick
The youngest of three girls, Christina was born just outside Toronto. She carried a double major of theater and dance at the prestigious Arts York at Unionville High School. She went on to further her training at the Ryerson Theatre School of Toronto, among such alumni as Eric McCormack and David ...
27. Cobie Smulders
Actress | The Avengers
Cobie Smulders was born on April 3, 1982, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a Dutch father and an English mother. As a girl, Cobie had set her sights on becoming a doctor or a marine biologist. In fact, it wasn't until high school that Cobie started to explore acting after appearing in several ...
28. Colleen Dewhurst
Actress | Anne of Green Gables
Tall, luminous and leonine, the legendary Colleen Dewhurst must go down as one of the theater's finest contemporary tragediennes of the late 1900s. With trademark dusky tones and a majestically careworn appearance, she possessed an inimitable down-to-earth fierceness that not only earned her the ...
29. Cree Summer
Actress | Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Cree Summer Francks is a Canadian-American voice actress and singer from Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of Canadian actor and singer Don Francks. She is most well-known for voicing Kida from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Tiff Crust and Queen Vexus (when Eartha Kitt is unavailable) from ...
30. Cristine Prosperi
Actress | Bring It On: Worldwide #Cheersmack
Cristine Prosperi is best known for portraying Imogen Moreno (Degrassi) . Cristine plays the role of Tiara (Really Me series) and plays the role of Aria (Totally Amp'd series). Cristine plays the role of the Iraqi girl in the movie Stir of Echoes starring Rob Lowe. Cristine has also worked on ...
31. Cynthia Dale
Actress | My Bloody Valentine
Cynthia Dale was born in 1961 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for My Bloody Valentine (1981), Moonstruck (1987) and Street Legal (1987). She has been married to Peter Mansbridge since 1998. They have one child.
32. Cynthia Preston
Actress | Jack Ryan
Cynthia Preston is an actor, producer, Co-founder of Cyndicate VR Productions, and Co-founder of Dame 51, a writer's collaborative. She is both Canadian and American. She is known for her roles in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Carrie, Total Recall 2070, and she starred in Whale Music which was the ...
33. Deanna Durbin
Actress | It Started with Eve
The girl who one day would be known as "Winnipeg's Sweetheart" was born at Grace Hospital on December 4, 1921, as Edna Mae Durbin. In her early childhood there were no obvious signs that one day she would be a bigger box office attraction than Shirley Temple. Renamed Deanna Durbin for show business...
34. Deanna Milligan
Actress | This Boy's Life
Deanna Milligan was born on March 10, 1972 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for This Boy's Life (1993), Lucid (2021) and Sliders (1995). She is married to Jason Gaffney. They have two children.
35. Deborah Kara Unger
Actress | The Game
Deborah Kara Unger was the first Canadian accepted into the prestigious Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. She made her feature film debut in Blood Oath (1990), followed by roles in Christopher Crowe's Whispers in the Dark (1992), Till There Was You (1991), and Highlander: The Final ...
36. Dorothée Berryman
Actress | Les invasions barbares
Mostly known as an actress, Dorothée always had a strong passion for Jazz. She participated at "elles chantent" project in 2000, a project were many people were invited to sing their favorite songs.
Dorothée is mostly known for her acting in movies Les invasions barbares, Le violon rouge and Jack ...
37. Elisha Cuthbert
Actress | The Girl Next Door
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian actress and model. She became internationally known for playing Kim Bauer in the series 24 (2001); Danielle in the teen comedy film The Girl Next Door (2004) and Carly Jones in the horror remake House of Wax (2005). She was voted the ...
38. Elliot Page
Actor | Juno
Elliot Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for...
39. Emily Perkins
Actress | Ginger Snaps
Emily Perkins was born on May 4, 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Ginger Snaps (2000), Juno (2007) and It (1990). She is married to Ernest Mathijs.
40. Emmanuelle Chriqui
Actress | Wrong Turn
Emmanuelle Chriqui was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Moroccan Jewish immigrants, Liliane (Benisty) and Albert Chriqui. Her family moved to Toronto when she was two years old. At the age of 10, Chriqui appeared in a McDonald's commercial. She moved to Vancouver, guest-starring in series such as Are ...
41. Emmanuelle Vaugier
Actress | Saw II
Emmanuelle Vaugier is a Canadian actress, singer, and model. She began acting in grade school, after she was cast as an understudy in a play and had to fill in when the lead actor became ill. She modeled in Japan for three years. She made her acting debut in the 1995 made-for-TV movie drama, A ...
42. Emily Hirst
Actress | Toki o kakeru shôjo
Emily Hirst was born on July 9, 1993 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006), Blade: The Series (2006) and Smallville (2001).
43. Emily VanCamp
Actress | Revenge
Emily Irene VanCamp (born May 12, 1986) is a Canadian actress, known for her lead roles on the WB series Everwood (2002), the ABC dramas Brothers & Sisters (2006) and Revenge (2011), and as Sharon Carter / Agent 13 in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (...
44. Erin Karpluk
Actress | Being Erica
Erin Karpluk was born in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Being Erica (2009), A Million Little Things (2018) and Holly Hobbie (2018).
45. Estella Warren
Actress | Planet of the Apes
Estella Warren was a synchronized swimmer from the age of 7 until 17 in her native Canada. She moved away from home at 12 to train for the Canadian National Team. She was the Canadian National Champion for three years and represented her country at the World Aquatic Championship, where she placed ...
46. Evangeline Lilly
Actress | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia, by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of ...
47. Fay Wray
Actress | King Kong
Canadian-born Fay Wray was brought up in Los Angeles and entered films at an early age. She was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra. She began her career as a heroine in westerns at Universal during the silent era. In 1926 the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers ...
48. Geneviève Bujold
Actress | Dead Ringers
Genevieve Bujold spent her first twelve school years in Montreal's oppressive Hochelaga Convent, where opportunities for self-expression were limited to making welcoming speeches for visiting clerics. As a child she felt "as if I were in a long dark tunnel trying to convince myself that if I could ...
49. Gloria Reuben
Actress | Lincoln
Gloria Reuben is an actress, singer and published author whose impressive credentials in television, film, theater and music include portraying the HIV+ physician assistant Jeanie Boulet on the hit NBC series ER (a role that garnered her two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination) and many ...
50. Gwynyth Walsh
Actress | Star Trek: Generations
Gwynyth Walsh was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada but was raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. Walsh earned her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of Alberta and started her career appearing on stage, across Canada and in the United States, in many classics, including. For ...
51. Helen Shaver
Actress | Desert Hearts
Helen Shaver has built a lasting legacy, both behind and in front of the camera. She has directed hundreds of hours of television ranging from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) to Castle (2009), from The Unit (2006) to The Outer Limits (1995). Her film, Summer's End (1999), a Showtime ...
52. Jacqueline Hennessy
Actress | Dead Ringers
Jacqueline Hennessy was born on November 25, 1968 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She is an actress, known for Dead Ringers (1988), The Acting Class (2000) and Northern Borders (2013). She is married to Terry Moore. They have two children.
53. Janet-Laine Green
Actress | The Believers
Janet-Laine Green was born on December 31, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for The Believers (1987), Bullies (1986) and Seeing Things (1981). She is married to Booth Savage. They have one child.
54. Jennifer Dale
Actress | Coroner
Jennifer Dale was born on January 16, 1956 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Coroner (2019), SurrealEstate (2021) and What Would Sal Do? (2017). She was previously married to Robert Lantos.
55. Jennifer Tilly
Actress | Bound
An actress who always attracts audiences' attention, Jennifer Tilly is by turns funny, sexy, compassionate, compelling and often all at once. She has been playing unforgettable characters ever since she started her career as an actress.
Jennifer Tilly was born Jennifer Ellen Chan in Harbor City, ...
56. Jessalyn Gilsig
Actress | The Stepfather
Jessalyn Gilsig has an extensive list of theater credits to her name. A graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Gilsig received her theatrical training at the American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. Among the American Repertory Theatre ...
57. Jessica Harmon
Actress | The 100
Jessica Harmon was born on December 27, 1985 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for The 100 (2014), iZombie (2015) and Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2008).
58. Jessica Paré
Actress | Wicker Park
Jessica Paré first turned heads in Stardom (2000), broke our hearts in Lost and Delirious (2001), played the catalyst for karmic intervention in Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) and, somehow, pulled off being a secret villain in Posers (2002). She then went onto made-for-TV movies, starting with a small ...
59. Jill Hennessy
Actress | Crossing Jordan
Jill Hennessy can be seen starring in Showtime's "City on a Hill" with Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, executive produced by Tom Fontana and Ben Affleck. Jill starred in the special event series "Shots Fired" by Gina Prince-Bythewood with Sanaa Lathan and Stephan James on FOX and was the lead in the ...
60. Jodelle Ferland
Actress | Case 39
Jodelle Micah Ferland has built up an impressive resume filled with roles in film, television and, at the beginning of her career, commercials. Born on October 9, 1994, she got her start in an episode of CTV's Cold Squad (1998), before landing the lead role in her first film, Mermaid (2000) at an ...
61. Julie Stewart
Actress | Cold Squad
Julie Stewart was born in 1967 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Cold Squad (1998), Still Mine (2012) and North of 60 (1992).
62. Kandyse McClure
Actress | Battlestar Galactica
Kandyse McClure is a Canadian actress born on March 22, 1980 in Durban in South Africa. She graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School in 1998. She is an actress, known for main roles in TV series Battlestar Galactica (2004), Hemlock Grove (2013), and from the movies Carrie (2002) and Seventh ...
63. Kari Matchett
Actress | Cube 2: Hypercube
Kari Matchett, a Canadian actress, skillfully embodies the character of Linda in "Fargo" Season 5. Her versatile acting prowess brings a profound depth to Linda, enhancing the show's narrative.
Kari Matchett grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta. She attended Lethbridge Collegiate Institute and later ...
64. Kate Nelligan
Actress | Frankie and Johnny
Cando-American actress Kate Nelligan has had a successful acting career in her native Canada, in Britain and in the United States. Born Patricia Colleen Nelligan on March 16, 1950 in London, Ontario, Kate was the daughter of blue collar-worker Patrick Nelligan and his wife Josephine (née Deir), a ...
65. Kate Todd
Actress | Radio Free Roscoe
Kate Todd was born on December 12, 1987 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Radio Free Roscoe (2003), My Babysitter's a Vampire (2011) and Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001). She has been married to Norbert Feigler since November 18, 2017. They have one child.
66. Katharine Isabelle
Actress | Ginger Snaps
Katharine Isabelle was born Katharine Isobel Murray in Vancouver, British Columbia to Graeme Murray, an art director and production designer who has won two Emmy Awards for his special effects work on the television series The X-Files (1993) and Gail Murray, an amateur Vancouver writer and producer...
67. Kirsten Zien
Actress | Elektra
Kirsten Prout was born in Vancouver, Canada. Meeting with success at an early age, she worked locally in Vancouver, guest-starring on shows such as First Wave (1998), Stargate SG-1 (1997), Cold Squad (1998) and The Dead Zone (2002). Her first sizable break in film came in 2005, when she landed the ...
68. Kelli Fox
Actress | Timecop
Kelli Fox was born in 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Timecop (1994), The Commish (1991) and Life with Mikey (1993).
69. Kelly Rowan
Actress | The O.C.
Kelly Rowan is best known for playing "Kirsten Cohen" on The O.C. (2003) for which she won a Prism award for best actress. She recently starred in and executive-produced The Good Times Are Killing Me (2009) with Rupert Graves.
Her recent indie film credits include Jack and Jill vs. the World (2008) ...
70. Kristin Kreuk
Actress | EuroTrip
Kristin Kreuk was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Deanna Che, who is of Chinese ancestry, and Peter Kreuk, who is of Dutch descent. Her parents are landscape architects. She attended and graduated from Eric Hamber Secondary School. Although she did some stage work in school, she ...
71. Kristin Lehman
Actress | The Chronicles of Riddick
Kristin Lehman is an award-winning film and television actress, producer and director. She most recently starred as a series regular in the Netflix series Midnight Mass (2021), and had a recurring part in Grey's Anatomy (2005).
Other work includes 4 seasons of the police procedural drama Motive (...
72. Ksenia Solo
Actress | Black Swan
Ksenia Solo is a Latvian-Canadian actress. She was born in Riga, Latvia in to an artistic family. She is a recipient of many prestigious Canadian awards, including 3 Gemini Awards and a nominee of the first ever Canadian Screen Awards. Ksenia was the youngest actor in Canadian television history to...
73. Lauren Collins
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Lauren Collins was born in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001), Kroll Show (2013) and What We Do in the Shadows (2019). She has been married to Jonathan Malen since October 2018. They have two children.
74. Leah Pinsent
Actress | Made in Canada
Leah Pinsent was born on September 20, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for The Industry (1998), April Fool's Day (1986) and The Bay Boy (1984). She has been married to Peter Keleghan since December 2001. She was previously married to Michael Capellupo.
75. Leslie Hope
Director | Lost in Space
Leslie Hope was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a dual citizen of the US and Canada. She has directed several episodes of television including Snowpiercer (2020), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022), Lost in Space (2018), The Order (2019), Murdoch Mysteries (2008), Van Helsing (2016), ...
76. Lexa Doig
Actress | Andromeda
Toronto native Alexandra Doig was born on June 8th, to Filipina mother Gloria and Irish-Scottish father David. Her parents held season tickets to their local theater, and Lexa was inspired to begin acting after seeing a production of "Porgy and Bess" at the age of nine. She dropped out of high ...
77. Lindy Booth
Actress | Dawn of the Dead
Lindy Booth was born on April 2, 1979, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She played "Riley Grant" on the Disney Channel series, The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) (and "Agent Hawk" in the show-within-a-show, "Silverstone"). Other credits include guest-starring as different characters in two different ...
78. Lisa Ryder
Actress | Andromeda
Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Lisa Ryder started performing as a child through dance, attending the Edmonton Studio of Ballet. She never considered acting as a career until she attended the University of Toronto. There she took Drama as an option and was bitten by the acting bug. After ...
79. Lolita Davidovich
Actress | Hollywood Homicide
Lolita Davidovich was born on July 15, 1961 in London, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Hollywood Homicide (2003), Blaze (1989) and Adventures in Babysitting (1987). She has been married to Ron Shelton since 1997. They have one child.
80. Madeleine Sherwood
Actress | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Madeleine Sherwood was born on November 13, 1922 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Changeling (1980) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). She was married to Robert Sherwood. She died on April 23, 2016 in Lac Cornu, Quebec, Canada.
81. Malin Akerman
Actress | Watchmen
Malin was born in Stockholm, Sweden and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her mother, Pia (Sundström), is a model and aerobics instructor, and her father, Magnus Åkerman, is an insurance broker. They moved to Toronto when she was age 2. At age 5, she began appearing in TV commercials. Her parents divorced...
82. Margot Kidder
Actress | Superman
Margot Kidder was born Margaret Ruth Kidder in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, to Jocelyn Mary "Jill" (Wilson), a history teacher from British Columbia, and Kendall Kidder, a New Mexico-born mining engineer and explosives expert. Margot was a delightful child who took pride in ...
83. Marie Dressler
Actress | Dinner at Eight
Once you saw her, you would not forget her. Despite her age and weight, she became one of the top box office draws of the sound era. She was 14 when she joined a theater group and she went on to work on stage and in light opera. By 1892, she was on Broadway and she later became a star comedienne on...
84. Marie-Josée Croze
Actress | Les invasions barbares
Marie-Josée Croze first studied fine arts before opting for the stage at La Veillée-Prospero Theatre workshop in Montreal. In 1993 she got her first movie part in La Florida (1993) and started working for numerous Canadian TV series and movies.
In 2000, with her performance in Denis Villeneuve's ...
85. Marilyn Lightstone
Actress | Heavy Metal
Marilyn Lightstone was born on June 28, 1940 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Heavy Metal (1981), In Praise of Older Women (1978) and Avonlea (1990).
86. Martha MacIsaac
Actress | Superbad
Martha MacIsaac was born on October 11, 1984 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Superbad (2007), The Last House on the Left (2009) and The Thaw (2009). She has been married to Kyle McCullough since December 8, 2018. They have two children. She ...
87. Mary Pickford
Actress | Coquette
Mary Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Elsie Charlotte (Hennessy) and John Charles Smith. She was of English and Irish descent. Pickford began in the theater at age seven. Then known as "Baby Gladys Smith", she toured with her family in a number of theater ...
88. Meg Tilly
Actress | The Big Chill
Meg Tilly was set on being a dancer, and at 17 connected to the Connecticut Ballet Company and later Throne Dance Theatre. It was in this capacity that she had her screen debut in Alan Parker's Fame (1980). Unfortunately, an injury to her back cut short her plans for a dance career, and a small ...
89. Megan Follows
Actress | Anne of Green Gables
Megan (pronounced Mee-gan) has two children, a daughter, Lyla, and a son, Russel. Megan comes from a showbiz family: father Ted Follows, mother Dawn Greenhalgh, and sister Samantha Follows are all actors; her other sister, Edwina Follows, is a producer and writer; and her brother Laurence Follows ...
90. Meghan Ory
Actress | Merlin's Apprentice
Meghan Ory is a Canadian actress, born in Victoria, British Columbia. She started acting in theater before her teens, but was prohibited by her mother-a drama teacher-from auditioning for film and TV roles until she could pay for her own head shots. She made her film debut in The Darklings, a 1999 ...
91. Melanie Leishman
Actress | Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
Melanie Leishman was born on February 20, 1989 in Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010), Stage Fright (2014) and Below Her Mouth (2016).
92. Melinda Shankar
Actress | How to Be Indie
Melinda Leanna Shankar is a Guyanese-Canadian actress best known for playing Alli Bhandari from the beginning of Season 8 in Degrassi: The Next Generation and Indira "Indie" Mehta on YTV series, 'How to be Indie.' Melinda made her starring mark in 2008 in the 8th season of Degrassi as Alli Bhandari...
93. Mercedes McNab
Actress | Addams Family Values
Mercedes McNab has been acting professionally since she was 10 years old. She was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, but moved with her parents to Los Angeles at age 9. She wanted to be an actress and soon landed an agent.
Her first role, at age 10, is probably her best-known: a bit ...
94. Meredith Henderson
Actress | Jumper
Meredith lived in Quebec until she was 12. Her father and siblings were members of the band Tangleroot, and her mother was the group's manager. She started taking acting classes when she was 5 years old, and was offered her first role as Aurora in the Showtime production The Song Spinner (1995). ...
95. Mia Kirshner
Actress | Not Another Teen Movie
Mia Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Etti, a teacher, and Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist. Her father is of Polish Jewish descent and her mother is a Bulgarian Jewish immigrant. Mia had a middle class upbringing and graduated from McGill University with a degree in English Literature. She ...
96. Micheline Lanctôt
Director | Sonatine
Micheline Lanctôt was born on May 12, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Sonatine (1984), Pour l'amour de Dieu (2011) and The Handyman (1980). She was previously married to Marshall Chrostowski.
97. Mimi Kuzyk
Actress | Lost and Delirious
Mimi Kuzyk is a Winnipeg born actress, best know for her roles in the series Hill Street Blues (1981) and Blue Murder (2001). Mimi grew up in Winnipeg with her brother and five sisters. She discovered her love of dance at the age of eight. Following her passion, Mimi joined the Rusalka Folk ...
98. Miriam McDonald
Actress | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Miriam McDonald was born on July 26, 1987 in Oakville, Ontario. She is a Canadian actress known for playing the role of "Emma Nelson", the main character on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001). In August 2007, Miriam appeared, alongside Amanda Stepto and Stefan Brogren, on the Canadian edition of ...
99. Molly Parker
Actress | Deadwood
Molly Parker, the extremely talented and versatile Canadian actress is best known in the United States for playing the Western widow "Alma Garret" on the cable-TV series Deadwood (2004). Raised on a commune, she described as "a hippie farm" in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Parker got the acting bug when she ...
100. Monika Schnarre
Actress | Waxwork II: Lost in Time
At 14 Monika Schnarre was the youngest girl ever to win the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency's "Supermodel of the World" competition. At 15 she was the youngest ever to have appeared on the cover of "American Vogue" and in the pages of the coveted "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue.
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