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on 22 Aug 2010 09:46

 
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Canadian Actors!

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Average listal rating (296 ratings) 7.3  
1. Leslie Nielsen


Known best for his slapstick comedy in movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun series!
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Average listal rating (259 ratings) 6.9  
2. William Shatner


Known..... for.... Star Trek, Boston..... Legal and Sh*t My Dad..... Says! Also known..... for talking.......like this!
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Average listal rating (2134 ratings) 7.7  
3. Jim Carrey


Known for his wacky comedy style in movies like The Mask and Dumb and Dumber.
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Average listal rating (881 ratings) 7.7  
4. Ellen Page


Known for her roles in Juno and Inception.
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Average listal rating (131 ratings) 7.2  
5. Will Arnett


Known for Arrested Development and a bunch of other comedy movies.
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Average listal rating (397 ratings) 6.8  
6. Michael Cera


Known for being extremely awkward in all of his movies, like Superbad and Juno.
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Average listal rating (496 ratings) 6.6  
7. Seth Rogen


Known for being in every other comedy nowadays. Also known for his annoying laugh.
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Average listal rating (129 ratings) 6.4  
8. Jay Baruchel


Known for playing the nerdy character in various comedies like Tropic Thunder and How to Train Your Dragon.
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Average listal rating (651 ratings) 7.5  
9. Ryan Reynolds


Known for various Rom-Coms, including The Proposal and Just Friends.
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Average listal rating (218 ratings) 7.9  
10. Nathan Fillion


Known for Castle and Firefly,
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Average listal rating (560 ratings) 7.6  
11. Evangeline Lilly


Known for Lost.
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Average listal rating (747 ratings) 6.7  
12. Anna Paquin


Born in Canada, known mostly for True Blood and the X-Men movies.
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Average listal rating (702 ratings) 6.2  
13. Mike Myers


Know for the Austin Powers, Shrek and Wayne's world movies. Also known for his latest movies blowing.
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Average listal rating (424 ratings) 7  
14. Kiefer Sutherland


Known mostly as Jack Bauer in the TV show 24, and small roles in other movies.
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Average listal rating (856 ratings) 7.7  
15. Rachel McAdams


Known for many different movies, such as The Time Travelers Wife and Sherlock Holmes.
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Average listal rating (1650 ratings) 6.8  
16. Keanu Reeves


Known for being a very wooden actor in all his movies, but mostly known for The Matrix series. Also known around the internet for being sad.
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Average listal rating (658 ratings) 7.5  
17. Michael J. Fox


Known for the Back to the Future movies and Family Ties if you grew up in the 80's. Also known for having Parkinson's disease.
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Average listal rating (349 ratings) 7.3  
18. Christopher Plummer


Known for lot's of different movies, mostly known for The Sound of Music.
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Average listal rating (689 ratings) 6.6  
19. Dan Aykroyd


Known mostly for being a Ghostbuster, or a Blues Brother.
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Average listal rating (237 ratings) 6.6  
20. Joshua Jackson


Known for Fringe.

Average listal rating (320 ratings) 7.4  
21. John Candy


Known for his comedy roles in movies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and Uncle Buck.
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Average listal rating (259 ratings) 6.1  
22. Rick Moranis


Known for the Ghostbusters movies, and the Honey I Shrunk the, movies.
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Average listal rating (549 ratings) 6.4  
23. Brendan Fraser


Known for the Mummy series and other lesser known movies.
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Average listal rating (476 ratings) 6.1  
24. Hayden Christensen


Known mostly as Anakin Sywalker in the Star Wars prequels.
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Average listal rating (524 ratings) 7.4  
25. Elisha Cuthbert


Known for being extremely hot. Also for being in 24 and Girl Next Door.
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Average listal rating (193 ratings) 6.4  
26. Kim Cattrall


Known for Sex and the City.

Average listal rating (729 ratings) 8.2  
27. Ryan Gosling


Known for his roles in movies like The Notebook and Half Nelson.
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Average listal rating (51 ratings) 6.7  
28. James Doohan


Known for being Scotty on the original Star Trek. Pretty much the opposite of Simon Pegg.

Average listal rating (220 ratings) 6  
29. Sandra Oh


Known for Greys Anatomy. That's basically it.

Average listal rating (420 ratings) 7.5  
30. Donald Sutherland


Known for the movie M*A*S*H and not much else. Father of Kiefer Sutherland.
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Average listal rating (511 ratings) 6.5  
31. Carrie-Anne Moss


Known pretty much just for The Matrix, and Memento.
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Average listal rating (317 ratings) 6.3  
32. Catherine O'Hara


Known for small roles in a bunch of different movies. Often the person you see in movies and say "Hey, what's she from?".
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Average listal rating (349 ratings) 6  
33. Eugene Levy


Known for the American Pie movies, and that's about it.
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Average listal rating (97 ratings) 6  
34. Colm Feore


Known for small roles in many movies and Canadian movies. Anyone ever see Bon Cop, Bad Cop.
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Average listal rating (123 ratings) 6.1  
35. Martin Short


Comedian, known for being irrelevant nowadays.
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Average listal rating (125 ratings) 3.5  
36. Tom Green


Known for being unliked.

Average listal rating (272 ratings) 7.4  
37. Cobie Smulders


Known for how I met your mother.
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Average listal rating (32 ratings) 6  
38. Howie Mandel


Known for Deal or no Deal and America's got Talent.

Average listal rating (113 ratings) 7.7  
39. Stana Katic


Known for Castle.
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Average listal rating (107 ratings) 6.6  
40. Alison Pill


Known for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Midnight in Paris. Engaged to fellow Canadian Jay Baruchel.
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Average listal rating (167 ratings) 6.5  
41. Sarah Chalke


Known for Scrubs.

Average listal rating (38 ratings) 8  
42. Colin Mochrie


Known for Whose Line is it Anyway?
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Average listal rating (22 ratings) 7  
43. Mitch Hedberg


R.I.P.
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Comments

Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 29 8:22
When I see Catherine O'Hara I immediately remember that she's Kevin's mom in Home Alone 1 & 2.
Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 30 23:45
http://www.listal.com/person/cobie-smulders
Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Oct 7 19:57
this list kills the other Canadian ones, i'd have Evangeline Lilly higher, but that's just me. awesome list! Leslie nielson is the best!
Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Oct 8 4:40
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 29 14:33
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 29 14:34
And Ellen Page of course, oh she is, nevermind :)
Posted: 2 years, 2 months ago at Apr 9 16:43
Posted: 1 year, 10 months ago at Aug 11 0:06
David Giammarco

Known for "Etalk Daily", "Swing Vote" with Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper, and, of course, the James Bond Films! :)




Edit: 1 year, 10 months ago
Posted: 7 months, 2 weeks ago at Nov 5 23:31
How about Drake?
Posted: 6 months, 1 week ago at Dec 8 20:22
Poor Keanu, he's sad because he's Canadian :(

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