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    Cobie Smulders

    Jacoba “Cobie” Francisca Maria Smulders-Killam, actor, model (born 3 April 1982 in Vancouver, BC). Cobie Smulders is best known for her roles as Robin Scherbatsky in the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005–14) and agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She also won a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut for her performance in a 2017 production of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter.

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    Devery Jacobs

    Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, actor, writer, director (born 8 August 1993 in Kahnawà:ke, QC). Devery Jacobs’s breakout role was in the 2013 Jeff Barnaby film Rhymes for Young Ghouls, and she has gone on to achieve international recognition for her acting and filmmaking. Jacobs is a passionate advocate for Indigenous cultures and representation in movies and television.

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    Dominique Michel

    Dominique Michel, born Michel-Aimée Sylvestre, actor and singer (b at Sorel, Qué 24 Dec 1932).

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    Donald Sutherland (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 28, 2000. Partner content is not updated. This seems an appropriate time for Sutherland to contemplate the past. The 64-year-old actor, who got his start on the stage, has returned to the theatre after a 19-year absence. He stars in Enigma Variations, which opened on Feb. 17 at the Royal Alex and runs until April 1.

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    Emily Hampshire

    Emily Hampshire, actor (born 29 August 1979 in Montreal, QC). Emily Hampshire is perhaps best known for her award-winning turn as Stevie Budd in the acclaimed CBC comedy Schitt’s Creek (2015–20). A professional actor since she was 16, Hampshire has had a long career in film and television, with nearly 100 credits to her name. She has won a Gemini Award, a Canadian Comedy Award and seven Canadian Screen Awards.

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    Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dressup)

    Ernest Arthur Coombs (a.k.a. Mr. Dressup), CM, television children's entertainer (born 26 November 1927 in at Lewiston, Maine; died 18 September 2001 in Pickering, ON). For his role as Mr. Dressup on the eponymous television show, Coombs was awarded a Best Program Award from ACTRA (1978), a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Children's Broadcast Institute (1989), and a Gemini Earle Grey Award for a body of work on TV (1994). In 1996, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

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    Finn Wolfhard

    Finn Michael Wolfhard, actor, writer, director, musician, model (born 23 December 2002 in Vancouver, BC). Finn Wolfhard is best known for playing Mike Wheeler in the popular Netflix series Stranger Things (2016–present). He is also known for his roles in the Stephen King adaptations It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) and director Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). Wolfhard has become a central figure in the contemporary Gen-X/Millennial’s interest in 1980s pop culture nostalgia.

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    Frances Bay

    Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman), actor (born 23 January 1919 in Manville, Alberta; died 15 September 2011 in Los Angeles, California). Frances Bay began her career as a radio actor with the CBC. She studied with Uta Hagen and worked on stage for many years before beginning a Hollywood career when she was in her 50s. Primarily known for playing sweet older women in comedic roles, she amassed nearly 180 credits and was one of the most recognizable character actors of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. She won a Gemini Award in 1997 for a guest role in Road to Avonlea and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2008.

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    Gabriel Arcand

    Gabriel Arcand, actor (b at Montréal 4 Jun 1949). His family, originally from the village of Deschambault (Portneuf County), settled in Montréal in 1952.

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    Gaston Lepage

    Gaston Lepage, actor (born 24 February 1949 in St-Félicien, Québec). Lepage gained his first acting experience as a college student in the theatre program at Cégep Édouard Montpetit in the Montréal suburb of Longueuil, Québec, from 1970 to 1971. He went on to study at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique in Montréal, graduating in 1974. After a 20-year career in theatre, he left the stage in 1993 to concentrate on acting for film and television and hosting television shows.

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    Geneviève Bujold

    Her first important Canadian role was in Michel BRAULT's Entre la mer et l'eau douce (1967), and she also starred in Kamouraska (1973) by Claude JUTRA.

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    Germain Houde

    Germain Houde. Actor. (Petit Saguenay QC, 14 December 1952 - ) With a career spanning continuously more than 30 years on stage and screen, this excellent actor has created exciting characters that have had strong impact on the imaginations of his broad audience.

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    Gilles Latulippe

    ​Gilles Latulippe, Québec actor, comedian and theatre director (born 31 August 1937 in Montréal, Québec; died 23 September 2014 in Montréal, Québec).

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    Girard, Rémy

    At 19, he joined Université Laval's theatre troupe and, abandoning law for theatre, entered Conservatoire de theatre du Québec, graduating in 1974. He made his debut in Quebec City, where he co-founded le Parminou and le Vieux-Théâtre. At that time, he touched on writing, directing and management.

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    Gordon Pinsent

    Gordon Edward Pinsent, CC, FRSC, actor, writer, director (born 12 July 1930 in Grand Falls, NL; died 25 February 2023). A cultural icon in his native Newfoundland, Gordon Pinsent was a fixture in Canadian film, theatre and television for more than 60 years. Often described as a Renaissance man, the former soldier and noted painter rose to prominence as the lead in CBC-TV’s Quentin Durgens, M.P. (1966–69). He adapted two of his novels, The Rowdyman and John and the Missus, to the big screen, starring in both and directing the latter. His more than 150 credits as an actor include the movies The Shipping News (2001), Away from Her (2006) and The Grand Seduction (2013), as well as the TV series Street Legal, Due South, The Red Green Show and Republic of Doyle. A Companion of the Order of Canada and an inductee to Canada’s Walk of Fame, Pinsent won a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in 2004 and numerous lifetime achievement awards.

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