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Hayden Christensen

Hayden Christensen, actor, producer (born 19 April 1981 in Vancouver, BC). Hayden Christensen is best known for playing Anakin Skywalker — young Darth Vader — in several Star Wars movies and TV series. He won the breakthrough male performance of the year award from the National Board of Review in 2001 and was named Male Star of Tomorrow at the ShoWest Convention in 2005.
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Jacob Tremblay

Jacob Tremblay, actor (born 5 October 2006 in Vancouver, BC). Child actor Jacob Tremblay shot to fame at the age of eight following his acclaimed performance in the award-winning film Room (2015), based on the book by Emma Donoghue. He won at least 20 awards for the role, including a Canadian Screen Award for best lead actor and a National Board of Review award for Breakthrough Performance. He has also appeared in such films as The Book of Henry (2017), Wonder (2017), Luca (2021) and The Little Mermaid (2023).
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Jacques L'Heureux

Jacques L'Heureux, actor (b at Sillery, Qc 10 Feb 1953). Jacques L'Heureux was propelled to stardom on the small screen in his role as Passe-Montagne in the children's cult classic Passe-Partout.
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Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey has been compared to Jerry Lewis in his willingness - even eagerness - to embarrass himself and others and to enact a manic-depressive crisis of self-worth in hyperkinetic comic terms.
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Janine Sutto

Janine Sutto, actor (born 20 April 1921 in Paris, France; dead 28 March 2017 in Montréal, Québec). An autodidact, she came to the stage very early, and brilliantly personified countless roles in all genres of theatre, radio and television.
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Jason Priestley

Jason Bradford Priestley, actor, director, producer (born at Vancouver 28 Aug 1969). Jason Priestley, who graduated from Argyle Secondary School in North Vancouver, is best known for his work in American film and television.
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Jean L'Italien

Jean L’Italien, actor (born 16 March 1958 in Montréal, QC). A popular actor on Québec television, he has also made a name for himself in film and on the stage.
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Jean-Pierre Ferland

Jean-Pierre Ferland, singer, songwriter, television host, actor (born 24 June 1934 in Montreal; died 27 April 2024). Jean-Pierre Ferland was recognized as one of the greatest chansonniers in Quebec and the entire French-speaking world. A romantic singer par excellence, he started with the Les Bozos in 1959. He broke out in 1962, winning first prize in a Francophonie contest with “Feuille de gui.” In 1968, he won the Grand prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros for “Je reviens chez nous.” “Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin” became a francophone anthem and received SOCAN’s Cultural Impact Award in 2023. Ferland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier of the Ordre national du Québec, an Officier of the Ordre de la Pléiade and a Compagnon of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec. He and five of his signature songs were inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Joe Bocan

Joe Bocan (née Johanne Beauchamp), Québécoise actress and singer (born 8 September 1957 in Montréal, QC).
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Jonny Harris

Jonny Harris, comedian, actor, writer, producer (born 22 September 1975 in Pouch Cove, NL). Newfoundland comedian Jonny Harris is best known for his roles in two long-running CBC TV series: he plays constable George Crabtree on Murdoch Mysteries (2008–present) and is the host, producer and writer of Still Standing (2015–present), for which he has won six Canadian Screen Awards.
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Joshua Jackson

Joshua Jackson, actor (b at Vancouver 11 Jun 1978). Joshua Jackson attended Kitsilano Secondary School in Vancouver and had appeared onscreen as a very young child, deciding at age 11 to make acting his career.
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Juliette Huot

Juliette Huot, actress (born 9 January 1912 in Montreal, QC; died 16 March 2001 in Brossard, QC). Huot was a pioneer in Québec radio, theatre and television.
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Kay Livingstone

Kathleen (Kay) Livingstone (née Jenkins), organizer and activist, broadcaster, actor (born 13 October 1919 in London, ON; died 25 July 1975). Kay Livingstone founded the Canadian Negro Women’s Association in 1951 and organized the first National Congress of Black Women in 1973. An established radio broadcaster and actor, Livingstone also devoted a great deal of her life and energy to social activism and organizing. Her tireless work to encourage a national discussion around the position of racialized people in society, particularly Black women, led Livingstone to coin the term visible minority in 1975.
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Lou Jacobi

Louis Harold Jacobovitch, actor, comedian (born 28 December 1913 in Toronto, ON; died 23 October 2009 in New York, New York). Lou Jacobi was a Jewish Canadian character actor whose career spanned 70 years, from 1924 to 1994. He began acting while still a child, appearing in theatrical productions in Toronto before moving on to London’s West End and Broadway. He also appeared in more than 70 films and TV series in both comedic and dramatic roles. An avuncular actor with excellent comic timing, he once described himself as having “the look of everybody's favourite Uncle Max.” He was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 1999.
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Maestro Fresh Wes

Wesley Williams (a.k.a. Maestro Fresh Wes, Maestro), rapper, actor, author, motivational speaker, radio and TV host (born 31 March 1968 in Toronto, ON). Maestro Fresh Wes is regarded as the “godfather of Canadian hip hop.” His debut album, Symphony in Effect (1989), was the first album by a Black Canadian artist to be certified platinum in Canada. It yielded the hugely successful and influential hit single “Let Your Backbone Slide.” In 2019, it became the first rap song to be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Maestro has been nominated for 17 Juno Awards and has won two, including the inaugural award for Rap Recording of the Year in 1991. In 2013, he was named No. 1 on CBC Music’s list of the greatest Canadian rappers. Between 2022 and 2024, he earned three straight Juno nominations for Children’s Album of the Year. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 2024.
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