Spotlight On: Martin Short
There's something funny about Hamilton's McMaster University, considering three of its highest profile classmates - Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and the inimitable Martin Short - are alumni.
Spotlight On: Leslie Nielsen
It's hard to believe now but acclaimed comic actor Leslie Nielsen actually started out in serious roles.
Spotlight On: Margot Kidder
She got her start on TV. And while recent years have seen her primarily working back in that medium, there was a moment in the 1970s when Margot Kidder was a true blue Hollywood movie star and sex symbol.
Spotlight On: Catherine O'Hara
Her gift is comedy and whether a role calls for cerebral wit or slapstick clowning, O'Hara delivers.
Spotlight On: Donald Sutherland
With a film career spanning five decades, New Brunswick native Donald Sutherland ranks as one of the most celebrated, durable and versatile actors ever.
Spotlight On: Ryan Reynolds
Even if he wasn't hitched to the smoking hot Scarlett Johansson, Vancouver-born and bred actor Ryan Reynolds would have our undying respect for a wide-ranging series of roles that are impossible to sum up in a few words though "versatile as heck" and "frequently requiring facial hair" come close.
Spotlight on James Cameron
As James Cameron's Avatar continues to rule the box office, we look back at the Canadian director's outstanding career.
Spotlight On: Mike Myers
The pride of Scarborough, ON has seen dizzying career highs and - to paraphrase one of his most famous characters, Wayne Campbell - hurl-inducing lows.
Canada Masquerading as Someplace Else
Even people who have never set foot in Canada have probably seen it on the big screen in a Hollywood blockbuster… albeit posing as someplace else.
Spotlight on: Kim Cattrall
Even if Sex and the City had never happened, British born, B.C.-reared Canadian actress Kim Cattrall would go down as one of the most prolific, versatile and successful actors ever.
Spotlight On: Keanu Reeves
Yes, he was born in Lebanon. But peripatetic Canadian-American actor Keanu Reeves was mostly raised in Toronto - even attending the Etobicoke School of the Arts - and has maintained ties with the Great White North throughout his career.
Spotlight On: Brendan Fraser
American-born Canadian actor Brendan Fraser is that rarest of creatures - a flat-out hottie who can actually act.
Spotlight On: Rachel McAdams
Having recently appeared alongside Jude Law and Robert Downey, Jr. in director Guy Ritchie's film adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, London, ON-born actor Rachel McAdams appears to be perched on the cusp of huge stardom.
Spotlight On: Jim Carrey
Many people's first glimpse of Newmarket, Ontario-born comedian Jim Carrey was on the small screen in the 1990s where he busted out as a rubber-faced character actor on the Wayans Brothers sketch comedy series In Living Color.
Spotlight On: Sarah Polley
Toronto native Sarah Polley is a director's actor - expressive, daring, gifted and less motivated by potential box office glory than by quality stories told well.
Top 10 Coolest Canuck Films
They haven't all won Genie Awards, though many of them have. But our highly (HIGHLY) subjective list of coolest-ever Canuck films shows that when it comes to movie-making - be it drama, comedy or creep-fest - the Great White North is second to none.