Young Canadian Talent
by nigel49 | created - 11 months ago | updated - 1 month ago | PublicOh Canada...such amazing talent!
1. Noel Fisher
Actor | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Noel Fisher has become one of the entertainment industry's most sought-after and versatile performers, bringing to life memorable characters on the big and small screens over the past few years. Fisher's film and television credits include starring as Michelangelo in Paramount Pictures' summer hit ...
2. Chad Rook
Actor | Joe Pickett
As an award-winning actor, director, writer and producer known for his versatility in the roles he selects, Chad Rook's multitude of credits over the past 20 years have spoken for themselves. With roles such as Clyde Mardon, the weather-controlling super villain on "The Flash (2014)", to the ...
3. Adam DiMarco
Actor | The White Lotus
Adam DiMarco was born in Canada. He is an actor, known for The White Lotus (2021), The Order (2019) and The Magicians (2015).
4. Dylan Bruce
Actor | Orphan Black
A talented actor on the rise, Dylan Bruce continues to build on an expansive resume. Dylan most recently starred in NBC's supernatural thriller "Midnight Texas" for two seasons. Immediately after that Bruce starred as Detective Nolan Wells in the first season of "The Murders" on CityTV.
Previously, ...
5. Xavier Dolan
Actor | J'ai tué ma mère
Xavier Dolan was born on March 20, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for I Killed My Mother (2009), Tom at the Farm (2013) and Heartbeats (2010).
6. Antoine Olivier Pilon
Actor | Mommy
Antoine Olivier Pilon was born on June 23, 1997 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Mommy (2014), Most Wanted (2020) and 1:54 (2016).
7. Connor Jessup
Actor | American Crime
Connor Jessup was born in Toronto, Canada. Acting since the age of eleven, he is best known for his roles in Netflix's fantasy series Locke & Key (2020) and in the Emmy-winning ABC drama American Crime (2015). Other notable roles include acclaimed performances in the independent films Blackbird...
8. Luke Kirby
Actor | Mambo Italiano
Luke Farrell Kirby is a Canadian actor. In 2019, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role as Lenny Bruce on the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Kirby was born in Hamilton, Ontario, to American parents. His mother is from Brooklyn, New York, and his father grew up "along the ...
9. Christopher Jacot
Actor | Slasher
Christopher Jacot was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Christopher is an actor, known for Slasher (2016), Going the Distance (2004) and Eureka (2006).
10. Robert Naylor
Actor | Immortals
Born in Quebec, Canada, Robert Naylor is fluent in English and French. He started taking theater classes at the age of 5, and acting quickly turned into a passion. On his first audition he landed a role in an English TV commercial and has never looked back.
Since 2006 he has had a very active voice ...
11. Dustin Milligan
Actor | Schitt$ Creek
Dustin Milligan was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada as Dustin Wallace Milligan. He is an actor, writer and producer, known for Extract (2009), 90210 (2010), Schitt's Creek (2014), Me Him Her (2015) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016), Rutherford Falls (2021), and The ...
12. Nolan Gerard Funk
Actor | The Flight Attendant
The Canadian actor started out as a national gymnast and diver. He is also fluent in French and German. He received his first break when cast in the starring role of the Nickelodeon movie Spectacular! (2009), opposite Victoria Justice. He is the new celebrity face of Versace, in conjunction with ...
13. Rob Raco
Actor | Riverdale
Robert Joseph Raco born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to Linda (De Paoli), a visual artist and high school teacher, and John Raco, a civil engineer and musical drum builder and one older sister, Argelia, is a versatile actor known for his captivating performances on both television and film. He ...
14. Jake Epstein
Actor | Degrassi: The Next Generation
Jake recently starred in a recurring role on Netflix's UMBRELLA ACADEMY as well as THE HARDY BOYS on Hulu. He can also recently be seen starring in the Hallmark Movie, THE WEDDING CONTRACT. On TV, Jake has recurred on ABC's DESIGNATED SURVIVOR, USA's SUITS, and NBC's GONE. Epstein is best known for...
15. Alexander De Jordy
Actor | How to Meditate Like a Writer
Alexander De Jordy is a former actor known for Murdoch Mysteries (2008), Mr. D (2012), Between (2015) and many other English Canada hits. He is now a writer and stand-up meditator developing a new category of conscious entertainment titled Tame Your Mind. TAME combines traditional entertainment ...
16. Charlie Gallant
Actor | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Charlie Gallant is known for Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), The Strain (2014) and Life Expectancy (2010).
17. Kevin Zegers
Actor | Transamerica
Kevin Joseph Zegers started acting at the tender age of six. He has starred in more than 40 films, including Air Bud (1997), Dawn of the Dead (2004), and Transamerica (2005), and has also appeared in several modeling campaigns.
Kevin was born in Woodstock, Ontario, to Mary-Ellen (Veldman), a teacher...
18. Daniel Gillies
Actor | The Originals
Daniel Joshua Gillies was born on 14 March 1976 in Winnipeg, Canada and moved to New Zealand at a young age. Though born into a family of strong medical background (his father is a pediatrician, his mother a nurse, and his great-great-great-grandfather is the renowned ENT/plastic surgery pioneer ...
19. Théodore Pellerin
Actor | Genèse
Théodore Pellerin was born on June 13, 1997 in Québec, Canada. He is an actor, known for Genesis (2018), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) and On Becoming a God in Central Florida (2019).
20. Mark O'Brien
Actor | Ready or Not
Mark O'Brien is an award-winning actor and filmmaker. He is an English major with a Bachelor of Arts from Memorial University of Newfoundland. His mother was a nurse and his father a truck driver. Mark also has three older sisters. He married actress Georgina Reilly on January 6, 2013 after meeting...
21. Tyler Johnston
Actor | Letterkenny
Tyler Johnston is a Canadian actor known for a variety of film and television roles, including that of Samandriel in season 8 of Supernatural.
As the foundations were laid for the young actor, Johnston was placed in the lead role of Ren McCormack in his high school production of Footloose. With so ...
22. Douglas Smith
Actor | Big Little Lies
Douglas Alexander Smith is a Canadian actor known for his work on the HBO series Big Love as Ben Henrickson. His other work includes Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Terminator Genisys, Vinyl, Miss Sloane, When We Rise, The Alienist and the second season of HBO's Big Little Lies.
23. Noah Mills
Actor | Sex and the City 2
Noah Mills is an actor born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He then moved to the United States where he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Noah started his career has a model while transitioning into acting. In 2017 he starred on the NBC Drama 'The Brave' as 'Joseph 'McG' McGuire' and can next been ...
24. Justin Chatwin
Actor | Dragonball Evolution
Justin Chatwin is a Canadian actor and avid outdoors man, traveler, sailor, and spear fisherman. The British Columbia native currently resides in Southern California. Although mostly known for his work as an actor, his passion sits with conservation, international motorcycle travel and the outdoors.
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25. Jean-Luc Bilodeau
Actor | Piranha 3DD
Jean-Luc Bilodeau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the son of Raymond and Barbara Bilodeau and has a sister, Danielle, a talent agent in Vancouver, BC. Jean-Luc attended Holy Cross Regional High School in Surrey, BC. He was a dancer for 9 years before becoming an actor, but ...
26. Devon Bostick
Actor | Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Devon Bostick was born on November 13, 1991 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012) and Okja (2017).
27. Jon Cor
Actor | The Flash
Jon Cor is a thirty-something-year-old living in Vancouver, BC.
He booked his first audition for a major film franchise while courting multiple agencies at the end of the second year of the Theater Arts and Performance program at Fanshawe College in London, ON.
Since then, he has gone on to win ...
28. Kevin Zegers
Actor | Transamerica
Kevin Joseph Zegers started acting at the tender age of six. He has starred in more than 40 films, including Air Bud (1997), Dawn of the Dead (2004), and Transamerica (2005), and has also appeared in several modeling campaigns.
Kevin was born in Woodstock, Ontario, to Mary-Ellen (Veldman), a teacher...
29. Paulo Costanzo
Actor | 40 Days and 40 Nights
Paulo Costanzo was born on September 21, 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Brampton, a suburb of Toronto, of Italian (father) and Jewish (mother) descent. He attended Mayfield Secondary School for the Arts, then attended one year at Ryerson University for theater, but dropped out when...
30. Percy Hynes White
Actor | The Gifted
Percy Hynes White has been acting since the age of two, beginning with performances in short films in and around his hometown of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
By age 9, he was playing the lead in "Winners," and soon was chosen for leading roles in other short films, including "The Confessional" ...
31. Tanner Novlan
Actor | Roswell, New Mexico
Tanner Novlan was born on April 9, 1986 in Paradise Hill, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is an actor, known for Roswell, New Mexico (2019), Modern Family (2009) and Letterkenny (2016). He has been married to Kayla Ewell since September 12, 2015. They have two children.
32. Travis Nelson
Actor | The Lake
Travis Nelson was born on September 8, 1990 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for The Lake (2022), The Recruit (2022) and I am Syd Stone (2020).
33. Jordan Gavaris
Actor | The Lake
Jordan Gavaris was born on September 25, 1989 in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for The Lake (2022), Orphan Black (2013) and PEN15 (2019).
34. Eric Johnson
Actor | Fifty Shades Darker
Eric Johnson was born on August 7, 1979 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Fifty Shades Darker (2017), The Knick (2014) and Vikings (2013). He has been married to Adria Budd Johnson since August 7, 2004. They have one child.
35. Stephen Huszar
Actor | Faces in the Crowd
Stephen Huszar is a Canadian film and television actor from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Huszar attended high school at Aden Bowman Collegiate and later studied at the University of Saskatchewan. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the 6' 1" Huszar began his screen career in 2004 with a role in The Cradle Will ...
36. Thomas Middleditch
Actor | The Final Girls
Thomas Steven Middleditch is a Canadian actor, comedian and screenwriter from Nelson, British Columbia. He is known for playing Richard Hendricks from Silicon Valley. He also acted in The Office, DC League of Super-Pets, Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and Solar ...
37. Erik Knudsen
Actor | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Erik can be seen as a guest star on the new CBS show, SO HELP ME TODD, alongside Skylar Astin and Marcia Gay Harden. He has appeared in the Hulu feature, 9 FILMS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, and the Paramount+ series, MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, as a guest star. Erik has been featured as a series regular on CONTINUUM...
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