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Lindy Booth was born on April 2, 1979, in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She played "Riley Grant" on the Disney Channel series, The Famous Jett Jackson (1998) (and "Agent Hawk" in the show-within-a-show, "Silverstone"). Other credits include guest-starring as different characters in two different episodes of the A&E Network series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001), and a recurring role in season two of the USA Network series, The 4400 (2004).

Rebecca Dalton was born on 10 January 1989 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Spun Out (2014), The Big Cigar (2024) and Suits (2011). She has been married to James Hinchcliffe since 3 August 2019.

Miriam McDonald was born on July 26, 1987 in Oakville, Ontario. She is a Canadian actress known for playing the role of "Emma Nelson," the main character on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001). In August 2007, Miriam appeared, alongside Amanda Stepto and Stefan Brogren, on the Canadian edition of "Reader's Digest." She has also appeared on the cover of TV guide and Fashion 18 magazine. Miriam was close friends with "Degrassi" co-star, Ryan Cooley, who played "J.T. Yorke." She is friends with Nina Dobrev, Cassie Steele and Shenae Grimes-Beech. She is also an accomplished dancer, as well as a professional yoga instructor.

Jake Manley was born in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for The Order (2019), Infamous (2020) and Midway (2019). He has been married to Jocelyn Hudon since 31 October 2021.

Katie Crown is an actress, writer and producer, from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is known for Storks (2016) as the role of Tulip, Bob's Burgers (2011), Amphibia (2019), Cleopatra In Space (2019), Apple & Onion (2016), Barbie: Life In the Dreamhouse (2012), Clarence (2013), Adventure Time (2010), and Total Drama Island (2007).

Niamh (pronounced "Neve") Wilson is a veteran film and television actor, known for her craft-driven approach to acting, believing in the integral role of all to the final outcome of a project. She brings intuition, empathy, curiosity and humor to her work. Having trained as a dancer, she also infuses her roles with physically and body knowledge, a prime example being her depiction of the gender-fluid "Mouse" in Giant Little Ones. She has worked with many notable directors, including Jean Pierre Jeunet, (The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet) and David Cronenberg (Map to the Stars) as well as having been nominated for, and won numerous awards. As a child her maturity and emotive face made her a favorite in horror and supernatural projects. By the time she was in middle school she'd portrayed a ghost and an alien, been haunted, possessed, kidnapped and blown up. Comedic roles eluded Niamh until she landed the title role in a tween-oriented sitcom Debra! (for which she won a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actress and Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series.) Niamh also spent two seasons on the teen soap Degrassi, as Jack Jones. She is known for her sarcastic wit, long winded anecdotes and hard work, body positivity and devotion to her Chihuahua-Lab rescue hound "Juice". She studied Anthropology at the University of Toronto. The daughter of an art director and a writer, she has two older brothers. She attended french immersion school and studied the violin. Niamh divides her time between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario.

Grew up outside Toronto, Canada. First role was Viktor Bokov in Kathryn Bigelow's film "K:19: The Widowmaker" opposite Harrison Ford. Starred in many TV series and films and won Gemini for his performance in "Thorne: Sleepyhead." He has worked with some of the industry's top directors like P.T. Anderson and Steven Spielberg. He has also been on stage, most recently in Geffen's hit production of "The Lonely Few." Joshua also has written and directed films and had his work appear in Internationally recognized festivals. He splits his time between Los Angeles and Toronto. His brother Justin Tyler Close is also a filmmaker. He has been married to Alex McKenna since 2016.

Pamela Rabe was born in Ontario, Canada. Pamela is an actress who is best known for many of her roles on TV and has devoted most of her career to the stage. Pamela's most known roles are Mercury (1996), The Secret Life of Us (2001), F*%#Ing Adelaide (2017) and as one of TVs most famous characters, joining the TV series Wentworth (2013) as Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson in season 2 of the award winning drama which earned Rabe a Logie Award in 2018.

Rabe is a long standing contributor to both the Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies, serving as director and actor in many plays. Rabe once spent 8 hours in a sole performance of Woman-Bomb. Rabe has also won numerous Helpmann Awards during her time in theatre.

Briar Nolet was born on 27 December 1998 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Let It Snow (2019), Blood Hunters (2016) and Something Here.

Melody Johnson was born on 17 January 1983 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Jason X (2001), The Virgin Suicides (1999) and A Simple Favor (2018).

Marieve Herington was born on 22 February 1988 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for How I Met Your Mother (2005), Big City Greens (2018) and Instagrammie (2018).

Sasha Craig was born in 1982 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), Power Rangers Time Force (2001) and Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (2000). She has been married to Eli Craig since 5 September 2004. They have one child.

T.J. McGibbon was born on 29 July 2005 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), The Umbrella Academy (2019) and Remember (2015).

Kim Bubbs was born in Oakville, Ontario Canada to an English Canadian father and a French Canadian mother. She has a younger brother. Kim graduated from Ryerson Theatre School and, in a little over a year, was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canada's version of the Emmy Award) for her work on The New Red Green Show.

Kim works in English, French and Spanish. She has guest starred on NBC's Timeless and the celebrated series Mad Men. Kim also starred alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton in the highly anticipated prequel to John Carpenter's 1982 cult classic The Thing (Universal Pictures). She appeared in the film On The Road (Official Selection Cannes 2013) by acclaimed director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) and starred alongside Shawn Ashmore in the medical drama Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures for HBO Canada. Her other professional credits include: Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Dreamworks), The Maestro (White Rabbit Films), Her Only Child (Lifetime), The Foundation (Showcase) and the hit animated series Sailor Moon (UPN). Kim is the voice of Lizbeth Salander's character in the English dubbing of the original Swedish film series The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and has also performed in several well-known video game series such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shaun White: Skateboarding and Snowboarding and the Assassin's Creed series of games.

In French, Kim starred in Francoeur, a television series that aired for four seasons on one of Canada's French language channels, Radio-Canada.

James Hinchcliffe was born on 5 December 1986 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Christmas in Big Sky Country (2023), Veekay (2023) and Private Eyes (2016). He has been married to Rebecca Dalton since 3 August 2019.

Mark Forward, was born on June 17th, 1974, and was raised in Oakville, Ontario by the lovely Reg and Joanne Forward. After taking Theatre in College, he quickly found himself using those skills to enter into the world of stand up Comedy. This lead him to appearances on John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show (Comedy Central) The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS) Funny As Hell (HBO) and Just For Laughs: All Access (The Comedy Network)

Mark's work also includes "Coach" on the Crave Tv/Comedy Network series Letterkenny. Writing and performing on The Jon Dore Television Show (The Comedy Network/IFC) being a Consulting Producer and writer on the Crave TV original "What would Sal Do?" and appearing as "Donny Mashman" on Season 3 of Fargo on FX.

Christopher Giroux's career spans a multitude of productions, genres and over 50+ feature films.

A 2009 Sheridan graduate in the Advanced TV and Film program, Giroux moved quickly up the industry ladder, producing 10 back-to-back high concept genre features with Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment.

Giroux joined Vortex Media in the fall of 2018, and is currently the SVP of Production.

In recent years he has produced and overseen production on such films as The Christmas Charade, Christmas Island, Learning To Love Again, Take Me Back For Christmas, The End of Sex, Anything For Jackson, The Voices of Her Mother, and the 2022 official TIFF selection, The End of Sex.

In addition to Giroux's production work, he is also a member of The Producer's Roundtable of Ontario. He was awarded a Certified Fresh Trophy from Rotten Tomatoes for producing Anything For Jackson (2020), and has received two Canadian Screen Award nominations, for his work on Christmas Island (2023) & Take Me Back For Christmas (2023).

Jesse Owens, arguably the most popular American track and field star in history, was -- along with his contemporary, world's heavyweight champion Joe Louis -- one of the first African Americans to change white society's perception of both black athletes and, more importantly, people of color. The future Olympic champion was born James Cleveland Owens on September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama, the youngest of 10 children born to sharecroppers Henry and Emma Owens. When young "J.C." as he was called was eight years old, his parents decided to abandon their small hometown and flee the sharecropper's life of peonage (legal in the U.S. until a 1938 Supreme Court decision outlawed it) by moving north to Cleveland, Ohio to find a better way of life, far away from the Jim Crow segregated south. J.C. was enrolled in a public school, and on his first day of school, the teacher heard his name as "Jesse", which was what he would be known as instead of J.C. for the rest of his life.

Prosperity did not come with the move to Cleveland as southern blacks were to find that racism was prevalent up north too, and Owens had to work while attending school to help support his family. Because he had to work after school, his high school track coach would meet him in the mornings to train him, due to his great talent. He was recruited by many colleges, but decided to go to the University of Ohio, but without a scholarship, he had to again work his way through school. In addition, he had to face discrimination daily on campus and during the travels to track meets, as America was still in the throes of legal segregation.

Owens married his high school sweetheart, Ruth Solomon, in 1935, and they eventually had three daughters together. At the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor on May 25, 1935, Owens set three world records and tied a fourth in less than an hour. Owens tied the record in the 100-yard dash at 9.4 seconds, and set records in the broad jump (26 feet 8 1/4 inches), the 220-yard dash (20.3 seconds) and the 220-yard low hurdles (22.6 seconds). The stage was set for Berlin.

The Berlin Olympics of 1936 were held in Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and Hitler's Nazi Party used the event as a soapbox to promulgate the theory of "Aryan" racial superiority. Hitler was spectacularly shown up by Jesse Owens and other African American athletes, members of a so-called "inferior" race. Despite the hostile atmosphere, Owens triumphed in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash and the broad jump. He replaced a Jewish-American member of the 400-meter relay team that went on to win the Gold Medal. In three of his events, Owens -- who became the first American in the history of track and field to win four gold medals in a single Olympics, a feat not duplicated until 1984, when Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the Warsaw Pact nations-free 1984 Summer Olympics) -- established Olympic records. It is disputed whether Owens shook hands with Hitler. By the end of the games, the German fans cheered for him. In fact, in his 1970 autobiography "The Jesse Owens Story", Owens claimed that the Fuhrer himself waved to him.

Owens' life after the Olympics was marred by the lack of opportunities provided to all African Americans, not just athletes. Although he came back to a ticker-tape parade held in in his honor by the City of New York, Owens had to ride the freight elevator to attend a reception for him at the posh Waldorf-Astoria hotel. In his autobiography, Owens remembered, "When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."

Like many African Americans in the first half of the 20th Century, Owens was a Republican. The Democratic Party traditionally counted on the votes of the "Solid South", politicians who were anti-black and pro-segregation, while the Party of Lincoln traditionally was the party of civil rights legislation, which died in committee under long-serving Southern Democratic pols in Congress. It was not until the 1960 Presidential election that a majority of African Americans voted for the Democratic candidate rather than the Republican. Thus, it is not surprising that Owens endorsed Republican Presidential candidate 'Alf Landon' over incumbent President 'Franklin D. Roosevelt' in 1936, who would lose, crushed under the massive landslide racked up by FDR, who began to form a "New Deal coalition" that would embrace African Americans.

After the Olympics, Owens had difficulty making a living and turned to sports promotion, essentially turning himself into an entertainer. Though boxing was integrated, the number of African American contenders was regulated as to not alienate white fans, and the pro sports of baseball, football and basketball were segregated. Black athletes, even those as popular as Owens, did not begin winning serious promotional contracts until the 1970s.

To make an income, Owens engaged in many exhibitions, such as running against race horses before Negro League professional baseball games. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he became a radio disc-jockey. He was extremely well-liked, and became an in-demand public speaker. Owen's popularity grew with the time, as he was seen after the war as the man who showed up Hitler and his discredited policies of racial superiority, thus becoming an important public figure in a society that, beginning with the Supreme Court decision desegregating schools (Brown v. Board of Education, 1954), was facing the painful process of overcoming its own racial hatreds and sordid past.

Owens started his own public relations firm, and traveled around the country speaking on behalf of corporations and for US Olympic Committee. His speeches stressed the importance of religion, hard work and loyalty. He also sponsored and participated in youth sports programs in inner-city neighborhoods. In 1976, President Gerald Ford bestowed the Medal of Freedom on Jesse Owens, the highest civilian honor the United States government can award.

Jesse Owens, one of the more remarkable Americans to grace the world stage, died on March 31, 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona from complications of lung cancer, likely caused by his pack-a-day cigarette smoking habit. He was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Owens was 66 years old. His Owens's memory is kept alive by his widow Ruth and his daughter Marlene, who operate the Jesse Owens Foundation, which provides financial assistance and support to deserving young people s from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Honors continued to accrue to Owens, even after death, testament to his greatness as a symbol of overcoming adversity. In 1984, a street in Berlin was named after him, and a school was renamed Jesse Owens Realschule/Oberschule (Secondary School). On March 28, 1990, Owens was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, which was presented to his family by President 'George H. W. Bush'.

Bridgett Riley was born on 13 May 1973 in Oakville, Missouri, USA. She is an actress, known for Jumper (2008), Watchmen (2009) and Transformers (2007).

Harrison Browne is a Canadian actor based out of Toronto. Prior to his acting career, he was a professional hockey player in the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) and the first transgender athlete in professional hockey. During his tenure in the NWHL, Harrison was a trailblazer and pioneer for LGBTQ rights. He helped form the first ever transgender policy in professional sports to aid both transmen and transwomen in their participation. He is the appointed Inclusion Leader for the NWHL advisory board and special ambassador for the National Hockey League's Hockey Is for Everyone initiative. Through his efforts, Harrison was recognized in 2016 by The Hockey News as one of hockey's 100 Top People of Power.

Harrison continues to advocate for transgender inclusion on the screen and stage through his public speaking endeavours throughout North America and internationally.

Meshach Peters was born on 17 April 1996 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Eureka (2006) and Night at the Museum (2006).

Lynne Cormack was born in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is known for Dead Ringers (1988), Warehouse 13 (2009) and Goosebumps (1995).

Born in Oakville, Ontario, Jesse Cadotte studied at the University of Toronto before moving to Vancouver to major in theatre at the University of British Columbia. He made his television debut in the WTN series You, Me and the Kids, and appeared on the popular Canadian teen soap Edgemont, Showtime and Scifi's anthology series The Outer Limits, and USA Network's hit series The Dead Zone. On film, Cadotte co-starred as Matt in the film Scorn, and starred as Billy Nolan in Bryan Fuller's 2002 adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie. A veteran stage actor who studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York, Cadotte recently appeared on stage as Simon in Presentation House Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound in Vancouver.

Molly Burke is a motivational speaker, YouTuber, and disability rights advocate. Born in Toronto, Canada, she was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare retinal disease causing loss of vision, when she was just 4 years old and lost the majority of her vision by age 14.

Despite this, and the ensuing obstacles and hardships she faced, it wasn't long before she began bringing light into the lives of others. Molly began public speaking at the age of five as an ambassador for The Foundation Fighting Blindness Canada. Since then, she has inspired thousands with her story.

As a student, she was tormented by bullies and suffered from anxiety and depression. It wasn't until she found the strength to face her challenges, and the courage to reach out to others, that she came to see the light and find hope.

As a motivational speaker, Molly has traveled the world sharing her story with youth, families and corporate organizations and spoken alongside Demi Lovato, Macklemore, Martin Sheen, Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King III, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Malala Yousafzai and the Kielburger brothers.

Ashley Taylor Tickell was born in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. She is known for Goosebumps (1995), The Cold Equations (2011) and Sweepers (1998).