Curated playlist
Canadian people of English descent
- Rachel McAdamsFor the March 2006 Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair, the Canadian actress Rachel McAdams was invited to share a cover with Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley. She arrived at the photo set and discovered that the session was a nude one.…
- Justin TrudeauJustin Trudeau was not yet four months old when a visiting American president raised a glass to him. At a gala in Ottawa in April 1972, Richard Nixon toasted the future prime minister of Canada, naming the baby as Justin Pierre Trudeau.…
- Martin ShortIn March 1972, Martin Short landed his first paid acting job. He played a plastic credit card, tucked inside a woman's purse, in a television commercial for Chargex. It was a speaking part for a piece of plastic, and nobody watching could…
- Shawn MendesShawn Mendes became known through a video that lasted six seconds. In 2013 he posted a cover of Justin Bieber's "As Long as You Love Me" on the app Vine. By the next day it had 10,000 likes and as many new followers. Mendes is a 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…
- Steve NashIn grade eight, Steve Nash told his mother he would become an NBA star.
- Shania TwainShania Twain has sold over 100 million records, more than any other woman in country music history. Billboard Boxscore puts the gross from her concert tours at 421.1 million dollars, the highest for any female country touring artist.…
- 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…
- David FosterDavid Walter Foster was born on the 1st of November 1949 in Victoria, British Columbia. He has won 16 Grammy Awards and has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Songs he composed and produced have reached…
- 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…
- Bryan AdamsIn 1990, Bryan Adams sat down with two collaborators, Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Michael Kamen, and finished a song in a single 45-minute session. The song was "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," and it went on to reach number one in at…
- Chris HadfieldAt nine, Chris Hadfield watched Apollo 11 and set his mind on space. He later commanded the space station.