Curated playlist
Canadian male child actors
- Drake (musician)Drake's 2006 mixtape Room for Improvement sold roughly 6,000 copies and earned him $304.04.
- 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…
- 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…
- Ryan GoslingRyan Gosling was suspended in grade one for throwing steak knives at classmates.
- 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…
- 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.
- Matthew PerryMatthew Perry spent a decade playing Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom Friends, yet he later said he had no memory of three years of that work. By 2002, he and his five co-stars were each earning $1 million per episode. Millions of viewers…