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| x Frank Gehry |
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Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Canadian Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and...
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| x Henry Czerny |
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Henry Czerny (pronounced /ˈtʃɛrni/; born February 8, 1959) is a Canadian actor.
Czerny was born to Polish parents in Toronto, Ontario. His mother was a bakery worker and his father a welder. Czerny received formal training at the National Theatre...
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| x Cory Doctorow |
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Cory Doctorow (pronounced /ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent...
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| x Alfred J. Gross |
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Alfred J. Gross (February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) aka Irving J. Gross was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He invented and patented many important communications devices, including the first walkie-talkie, CB radio, the telephone...
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| x Sydney Newman |
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Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Initially a film editor...
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| x Jim West |
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James "Jim" "Kimo" West is a guitarist best known for working with the singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic. West auditioned for Yankovic, after being introduced by Steve Jay, and the two have worked together ever since. West can be heard and seen...
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| x James Randi |
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James Randi (born August 7, 1928) (stage name The Amazing Randi) is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF)....
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| x Morley Safer |
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Morley Safer (born November 8, 1931) is a Canadian reporter and correspondent for CBS News. He is best known for his long tenure on the newsmagazine 60 Minutes, which began in December 1970.
Safer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended...
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| x Bill Phipps |
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William "Bill" Phipps (born 1942) is a Canadian church leader and social justice activist. He was Moderator of the United Church of Canada from 1997 to 2000.
He was trained as a lawyer before entering theological college, and was ordained to the...
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| x Evan Solomon |
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Evan Solomon (born 1968) is a Canadian writer, magazine publisher and television journalist, who currently hosts the nightly series Power & Politics on CBC News Network.
Solomon graduated from McGill University in English literature and religious...
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| x Leonard Gustafson |
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Leonard Joseph Gustafson, PC (born November 10, 1933) is a former Canadian Senator and former Member of Parliament.
Born in Macoun, Saskatchewan, Gustafson was a farmer, contractor and businessman, before he was elected to the Canadian House of...
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| x Will Arnett |
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William Emerson "Will" Arnett (born May 4, 1970) is a Canadian actor known for his role as George Oscar "G.O.B." Bluth II on the FOX comedy Arrested Development. Since his success on Arrested Development, Arnett has landed major film roles. He...
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| x Michael Ignatieff |
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Michael Grant Ignatieff MP (pronounced /ɪɡˈnætɪəf/; born May 12, 1947) is the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition in Canada. Widely known for his work as an historian and author, Ignatieff held senior academic...
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| x Joseph Cordiano |
Joseph Cordiano (born October 30, 1957) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was formerly a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and a cabinet minister in the government of Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Cordiano was born in...
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| x Pat O'Toole |
Patrick "Toole Time" O'Toole (b. December 24, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario) is a goaltender for the Rochester Knighthawks in the National Lacrosse League. O'Toole was named NLL Goaltender of the Year in 2003.
In 1998, as a member of the Brampton...
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| x John Tavares |
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John Tavares (born September 4, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario) is a professional box lacrosse player in the National Lacrosse League and mathematics teacher at Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga Ontario, Canada. He attended D'Youville...
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| x Joseph Rotman |
Joseph L. Rotman, OC , MCom , LL.D (born January 6, 1935) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his BA with a major in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario in 1957 and his MCom from the...
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| x Anne Carson |
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is...
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| x Stephen Harper |
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Stephen Joseph Harper, PC, MP (born April 30, 1959) is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Canada, and leader of the Conservative Party. Harper became Prime Minister after his party won a minority government in the January 2006 federal election....
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| x Neil Young |
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Neil Percival Young, OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and film director. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1995 and also as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997.
Young's...
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| x Larry Bagnell |
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Lawrence "Larry" Bagnell, PC, MP (born December 19, 1949 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian politician.
Bagnell is currently a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Yukon since 2000 where he won a...
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| x John McKay |
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John Norman McKay, PC, MP is a lawyer and a Liberal Canadian politician. He is the Member of Parliament for the riding of Scarborough—Guildwood. McKay was formerly the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance while the Liberal party...
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| x Jim Gouk |
James William "Jim" Gouk (born April 15, 1946 in Toronto) is a Canadian politician.
Gouk began his political career as an alderman in Castlegar, British Columbia. Gouk would enter federal politics in 1993 when he was elected into the Canadian House...
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| x Jim Abbott |
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James "Jim" Abbott, PC, MP (born August 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Conservative member of Canada's House of Commons. Abbott was a member of the Reform Party from 1993 to 2000 and a member of the Canadian Alliance from 2000 to 2004....
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| x Peter Jennings |
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Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A...
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| x Walter Huston |
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Walter Huston (pronounced /ˈwɔːltər ˈhjuːstən/; April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.
Born Walter Houghston...
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| x Jake Epstein |
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Jacob Lee "Jake" Epstein (born January 16, 1987) is a Canadian actor and singer, perhaps best known for playing Craig Manning, a bi-polar musician on Degrassi
Epstein was born in Toronto, Ontario. His mother, Kathy Kacer, is a Norma Fleck Award...
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| x Shadia Simmons |
Shadia Simmons (born June 28, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress. She's been acting since she was eight.
Her first movie was Moonlight and Valentino, where she played the part of "Jenny Morrow", the daughter of a character...
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| x Tamara Taylor |
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Tamara Taylor (born September 27, 1970) is a Canadian television actress.
Born in Toronto to a black Canadian father and a white Canadian mother, she is currently appearing as Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, in Bones. She also...
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| x Gregory Smith |
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Gregory Simon Smith (born 6 July, 1983) is a Canadian actor. He began working as a child actor in the mid 1980s, initially appearing in a number of made-for-video and television films, and subsequently starred in the 1998 summer film Small Soldiers....
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| x Lisa Jakub |
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Lisa Jakub (born December 27, 1978) is a Canadian actress, best known for her roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Independence Day.
Jakub was born in Toronto, Ontario. Her first role was in the 1985 film Eleni, which starred Kate Nelligan and John Malkovich...
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| x Alex House |
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Alex House is a Canadian actor.
House started his career as a child actor. Among his many credits is the (leading) role of Lance Stone on Dark Oraclefor YTV. He played a recurring guest star role on the 5th season of the Canadian TV series Degrassi:...
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| x Jamie Johnston |
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James Michael "Jamie" Johnston (born July 7, 1989) is a Canadian actor and singer-songwriter. He is perhaps best known for his role as Peter Stone on the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Johnston was born in Toronto, Ontario and has...
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| x Chad Donella |
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Chad E. Donella (born May 18, 1978) is a Canadian actor who has appeared in several movies and television shows.
He attended the Arts York Drama Program, in which he participated in such plays as Oedipus Rex, Waiting for Godot, and The Collected...
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| x Kali Troy |
Kali Bianca Troy (born March 7, 1971) is an American voice over actress known exclusively as Kittie'". She is known for her starring roles on American Dragon: Jake Long as Trixie and W.I.T.C.H. as Taranee. She has her own MySpace page; www.myspace...
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| x Keenan MacWilliam |
Keenan Courtney Chambers MacWilliam (born December 26, 1989 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is probably best known for her co-starring role as Carole Hanson in the popular Australian television series The Saddle Club,...
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| x Michael Seater |
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Michael James Seater (born January 15, 1987) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing the title role, Derek Venturi, in the television series Life with Derek.
Seater was born in Toronto, Ontario and began acting in the late 1990s. He appeared in...
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| x Eric McCormack |
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Eric James McCormack (born April 18, 1963) is a Canadian-American actor, musician, writer and producer. Born in Toronto, he began his acting career performing in school plays at Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute High School. He left Ryerson...
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| x Don McKellar |
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Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Tony- and Genie Award-winning Canadian actor, writer, and filmmaker.
McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later...
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| x Brooke Nevin |
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Brooke Nevin (born Brooke Candice Nevin) is an incrediably beautiful Canadian actress. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on December the 22 1982 to proud parents Nicole (Nicky) and Robert (Bob), who is a retired professional hockey player....
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| x Hart Bochner |
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Hart Matthew Bochner (born October 3, 1956) is a Canadian film actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of the actor Lloyd Bochner and his wife Ruth.
Bochner appeared in such films as Islands in the...
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| x Charlotte Arnold |
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Charlotte Arnold is a Canadian film actress and television actress best known as the character of Holly J. Sinclair in Degrassi: The Next Generation and Sadie Hawthorne in the Canadian TV series Naturally, Sadie.
As of November 2008, Arnold was...
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| x Christopher Plummer |
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Christopher Plummer, CC (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian theater, film and television actor. In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theater, Plummer is perhaps best known for the role...
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| x Catherine O'Hara |
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Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on SCTV, and her roles in the films After Hours, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, and The Nightmare Before Christmas; as well in...
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| x David Dineen-Porter |
David Dineen-Porter is a comedian and musician from Toronto, Canada. He is one of two grand prize winners of the Cambrian House's Robinhood Fund $20,000 crowdsourcing Christmas Wish giveaway event for a "selfish wish". He performs in the band PDF...
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| x Mary Pickford |
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Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a Canadian motion picture actor, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart," ...
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| x Erica Luttrell |
Erica Shukrani Luttrell (born March 20, 1982) is a Canadian-born Tanzanian-American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Kara on Shining Time Station, and for being the voice of Candy on Dave the Barbarian and Keesha Franklin on The...
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| x Douglas Smith |
Douglas Alexander Smith (born June 22, 1985) is a Canadian-American actor most notable for his work on the HBO series, Big Love as Ben Henrickson, the eldest son of polygamist Bill Henrickson.
Smith was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of...
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| x Dov Tiefenbach |
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Dov Yosef Tiefenbach (born December 8, 1981) is a Canadian actor and musician.
Tiefenbach was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He began his acting career at the age of 12, first starting off in commercials before playing the role of 'Josh Avery' in...
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| x Lottie Pickford |
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Lottie Pickford (June 9, 1895 – December 9, 1936) was a Canadian silent film actress, socialite, and sister to Mary Pickford and Jack Pickford. Her career is often overshadowed by that of her siblings and though she was a notable figure in the 1920s...
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| x Shenae Grimes |
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Shenae Sonya Grimes (pronounced /ˈʃəneɪ/; born October 24, 1989) is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian American actress. She currently plays the role of Annie Wilson in 90210, a spinoff of Beverly Hills, 90210. Prior to that she played Darcy Edwards on...
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| x Rainbow Sun Francks |
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Rainbow Sun Francks (born December 3, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an actor and songwriter. He is the son of actor/musician Don Francks and dancer Lili Francks, a member of the Plains Cree First Nation. He is also the brother of Cree Summer....
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| x Michael Wincott |
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Michael Anthony Claudio Wincott (born January 21, 1958) is a Canadian actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Top Dollar in The Crow, Rene Ricard in Basquiat and Gary Soneji in Along Came a Spider. He is recognized for his rough, gravelly voice....
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| x Alison Pill |
Alison Elizabeth Pill (born November 27, 1985) is a Canadian film, television and theatre actress.
She was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and attended Vaughan Road Academy, a high school in Toronto.
In 2006, Pill starred as Grace Webster in the...
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| x William B. Davis |
William Bruce Davis (born January 13, 1938) is a Canadian actor, known for his role as the Cigarette Smoking Man on The X-Files. He has also appeared in Stargate SG-1 as Damaris, a Prior of the Ori and as Mayor Tate on Smallville. Most recently he...
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| x Rick Green |
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Rick Green (November 4, 1953 -) is a Canadian comedian, satirist, and writer. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo. From 1975 until 1979, he worked as a presenter at the Ontario Science Centre. In 1979, he helped...
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| x Michael Ironside |
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Michael Ironside (born February 12, 1950) is a Canadian actor. He has also worked as a voice actor, producer, film director, and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American works. He is best known for playing...
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| x Enrico Colantoni |
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Enrico "Rico" Colantoni (born February 14, 1963) is a Canadian actor, with Italian ancestry, probably best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, and Keith Mars on the television series Veronica Mars. He has also had...
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| x Rick Moranis |
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Frederick Alan "Rick" Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a retired Canadian comedian, actor and musician. Coming to prominence in the 1980s on Second City Television, before moving on to appearances in several Hollywood films including Ghostbusters;...
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