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21st-century Canadian male actors

  • Drake (musician)Drake's 2006 mixtape Room for Improvement sold roughly 6,000 copies and earned him $304.04.
  • Seth RogenSeth Rogen was 13 when he co-wrote a rough draft of Superbad with his childhood friend Evan Goldberg. The two had met in bar mitzvah classes. They spent the rest of high school polishing that script. Rogen grew up to be a Canadian actor,…
  • Ryan ReynoldsRyan Reynolds gave up his usual fee so the Deadpool film would get made.
  • Finn WolfhardFinn Wolfhard landed the role of Mike Wheeler by sending in a video. He had spotted an open casting call and auditioned remotely. The part was on the Netflix series Stranger Things, which ran from 2016 to 2025 and made the young Canadian…
  • Keanu ReevesKeanu Reeves ended a 2019 late-night interview with a single sentence about death: “I know that the ones who love us will miss us.” The studio audience reacted emotionally, and host Stephen Colbert shook his hand before closing the show.…
  • Elliot PageOn the 1st of December 2020, the Canadian actor Elliot Page announced on social media that he is a trans man. He shared his new name, Elliot, and said his pronouns were he and they. The post carried weight because its author had been in…
  • Shawn LevyShawn Levy once played a morgue worker on Stranger Things. He later helped run the show as executive producer.
  • The WeekndThe Weeknd is the stage name of Abel Tesfaye, a Canadian singer-songwriter born on the 16th of February 1990. The spelling is deliberate. Tesfaye chose the name because he had left home on a weekend, then dropped the last 'e' to avoid…
  • Ryan GoslingRyan Gosling was suspended in grade one for throwing steak knives at classmates.
  • Lorne MichaelsLorne Michaels once offered The Beatles $3,000 to reunite on live TV. It came in Saturday Night Live's first season.
  • Michael CeraMichael Cera, the Canadian actor and musician born on the 7th of June 1988, owes his career to a case of chickenpox. At the age of three, stuck in bed, he watched Ghostbusters over and over. He memorized every line of dialogue and came to…
  • Brendan FraserIn September 2022, the film The Whale premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, and the audience gave its star, Brendan Fraser, a standing ovation that lasted six minutes. Fraser is an American and Canadian actor, and that night…
  • Michael J. FoxMichael J. Fox once worked two months of days that began with rehearsals at 10 a.m. and ended with filming at 2:30 the next morning. Those were the hours of 1985. By day he rehearsed the sitcom Family Ties. By night he rushed to the set of…
  • David HayterDavid Hayter gave up half his paycheck so the Metal Gear Solid voice cast could return. It was for a 2004 remake.
  • Hayden ChristensenHayden Christensen won Anakin Skywalker after Leonardo DiCaprio turned the film down.

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