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- Kamilla Kowal was born on 17 July 1997 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Letterkenny (2016) and Priscilla (2023).
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Brigitte Kingsley is a Canadian actor, writer and producer. She was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her family moved to Whitby, Ontario when she was ten years old. At the age of fourteen, Brigitte Kingsley began her acting career in high school with television commercials such as Oxy, Foot Locker, McDonalds, Head & Shoulders and Radio Shack to name a few. She became the "hostess with the mostess" on the television series Game Nation for 4 seasons as host Suki Diefenbaker.
She studied theatre and psychology at York University. Shortly after graduating with Honours from York University with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies, Brigitte Kingsley launched her production company Defiant Empire Corporation with business partner Andrew Cymek.
Brigitte Kingsley has now produced more than twenty feature films and MOWs and two television series to date. In 2006 she produced and starred in her first feature film Dark Rising (also starring WWE superstar Jay "Christian" Reso). The feature was released through Universal Vivendi and was nominated for 6 Canadian Comedy Awards in 2008 for Best Writing, Directing, Male Performance and Best Female Performance, which Brigitte earned for her role as the lead character "Summer Vale". It was later released in the US and internationally through EOne and subsequently expanded into a sequel Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back! and the television series The Savage Tales of Summer Vale both released in 2011 on Super Channel and acquired by Cinemavault for International sales and by MarVista for the US.
In 2008, Brigitte Kingsley became president of Black Walk, an established production company that has produced content in the industry for over 25 years. In 2010, she completed her third feature film Medium Raw: Night of the Wolf, an action-thriller starring John Rhys Davies (Lord of the Rings), William B. Davies (X-Files), which was released through Anchor Bay Canada, US, UK and Australia. In 2011, she took on the responsibility of Decade Distribution in order to increase her knowledge in the sales and distribution side of film and also produced her first Telefilm supported feature film "Two Hands to Mouth" - an official selection of the Madrid International Film Festival. In 2012, she was nominated for another Canadian Comedy Award for her role as Summer Vale in Dark Rising 2: Summer Strikes Back! and starred and co-executive produced the fourth Dark Rising project: Warrior of Worlds (also starring Colin Mochrie, Peter Outerbridge and Scott Thompson).
In September 2012, Brigitte left Black Walk to start her own production company Good Soldier Films with partner Andrew Cymek. Their first productions include Night Cries, which won best screenplay at the Blood in the Snow Film Festival (2015), The Man in the Shadows that played at Dances with Films and Cinefest (2015) and the country musical Country Crush starring Jana Kramer, Madeline Merlo and Sophie Tweed-Simmons acquired by SHOUT! Factory in the US, released as a Walmart Exclusive and was named best Narrative Feature, Best of Festival Film and Audience Choice at the Desert Rocks Film and Music Festival in Hesperia, California (2016). Most recently Brigitte has been producing romantic comedies and Christmas films for partners including Super Channel, Hallmark / Crown Media, UPTV, Lifetime, BYU and Great American Family (GAC). Her productions include From Friend to Fiancé which was the top summer movie on Hallmark in 2019, Autumn Stables, Home for Harvest, Mistletoe Magic, A Very Corgi Christmas, My Boss' Wedding to name a few. In 2020, she began to write and has produced four of her screenplays since - including Christmas by Chance (Lifetime), UnPerfect Christmas Wish (UPTV), Picture Perfect Romance (Super Channel) and The Art of Christmas (GAC) which will air this holiday season. Brigitte also just produced and starred in a sci-fi comedy supported by the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund (NOHFC) called "Astonishing Tales of Terror: Rocktapussy" released in Canada through Black Fawn Distribution and in the US through Nicely Entertainment.
Brigitte Kingsley is on the Board of directors for Canadore College's Television/Video Production and Digital Cinematography program and collaborates with the Canadian Armed Forces on several initiatives to increase moral among the deployed troops and vets during the holidays.- Celeste Desjardins was born on 14 June 1996 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Taken (2017), Skate God and Fashionably in Love (2023).
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Scott Evans was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Barbie (2023), Almost Love (2019) and Grace and Frankie (2015).- Actress
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Sonya Salomaa was born in 1974 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Watchmen (2009), The Collector (2004) and House of the Dead (2003). She has been married to Warren Christie since 7 January 2006.- Producer
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Born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Alex Trebek graduated from the University of Ottawa with a degree in Philosophy. After his first decision to become a newscaster, he joined the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), Canada's premier network in 1961. As he was working, he helped organize national news and covered a variety of special events for CBC's radio and television divisions, receiving high praise as a broadcaster who retained his poise and composure in the toughest places. Then, in 1966, he became a Canadian game show host on Reach for the Top (1965), and stayed there for the first seven years until he migrated to the United States to host his very first game show in that country, The Wizard of Odds (1973), for NBC.
Prior to being selected as the host of Jeopardy! (1984), for syndication, he came back to NBC and hosted the revamped version of Classic Concentration (1987), which was also his second hit in his then-almost 30 year career. On this show, he received 4 Emmy nominations, but didn't win. It was canceled in 1991, when the network stopped making game show for daytime TV.
On May 17, 2002, Jeopardy! (1984) celebrated a milestone, with its 4000th episode and at the same time, received another Daytime Emmy for "Outstanding Game Show/Audience Participation," making it its 21st Emmy. Like Bob Barker, Alex Trebek broke the world record as host of TV's #1 quiz show in the country, won seven Outstanding Game Show Host Emmy Awards, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was often described as one of the Top 10 Canadians on U.S. Television. Trebek passed away, after a long battle against pancreatic cancer on November 8, 2020, at age 80.- Tim Conlon was born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Angels in the Outfield (1994), Ocean's Thirteen (2007) and Pushing Daisies (2007).
- Lana Tailor was born on 18 April 1987 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter (2011), Lingerie (2009) and Celebrity Beach Bowl 2011 (2011).
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M.J. Dionne was born on 17 October 1990 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Letterkenny (2016), Antibirth (2016) and Slasher (2016).- Producer
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David Anselmo is a Canadian producer and former actor who is the CEO of Hideaway Pictures and the Northern Ontario Film Studios, the first and biggest film production company and studio - respectively - in Northern Ontario.
After studying Law, Psychology, and Theatre at Laurentian University, Anselmo began his acting career in Europe working with a small theatre groups in 2001. When he visited a friend in South Korea, he ended up spending the next seven years working as an actor and producer in Seoul, which was a great beginning for a career in the film industry. Many credits in his acting filmography include successful international films such as "Rpoint", a 2004 horror film during the Vietnam War, "Welcome to Dongmakgol", a 2005 comedy-drama during the Korean War, and the highest grossing South Korean film of all time, "The Host", a 2006 horror film which surpassed $100M at the box office domestically in Korea.
Seeing and opportunity to help create a new industry in Northern Ontario, David moved back to Canada in 2019 after a successful film career overseas and founded Hideaway Pictures in 2010, and the Northern Ontario Film Studios in 2012, which provides a wide range of equipment and services to help grow the industry for producer filming in Northern Ontario.
As President of Production of Hideaway Pictures, he has filmed over 60 feature films and television series produced in Canada which amounts to over 150,000,000 in production dollars spent in the region.
As CEO of the Northern Ontario Film Studios (NOFS), his strategic business development has attracted to the region and services over 125 feature film and television projects in the last decade generating over $300,000,000 in economic development to Canada. In 2015, the NOFS opened its second stage in the region to meet the industry's needs. In 2019, NOFS build a permanent turn of the century town on its 60 acre back lot which has garnered attention from the industry abroad and is sought after as a future filming location.- Art Department
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The fourth child of five. He attended classes on improvisation at the Firehall Second City in Toronto, the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College in Hollywood and at HB Studios in NYC. His first guest appearance in a television series was in, "Sidestreet", starring Donelly Rhodes. Perhaps best known for his role in "Saw 2" (with cameo appearances in both "Saw 3" and "Saw V") Timothy also appeared in "Deacons For Defense" starring Forest Whitaker and Sandra Oh's first film "The Diary Of Evelyn Lau". With 55 cents, Tim left home and hitch-hiked to LA at the fresh age of fifteen. He served eight months in the Canadian Armed Forces as a military policeman, was stationed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and received an honorable discharge.- Actor
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Derek Hagen is a Canadian born, UK based actor who works extensively on stage and in the gaming industry for both voiceover and motion capture work. He has most recently played the Role of Jesse Rentier in Evil West. Also known for Langston in Control and Midas in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series.- Actor
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Doug Lennox was born on 21 January 1938 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for X-Men (2000), Interstate 60 (2002) and Lars and the Real Girl (2007). He died on 28 November 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.- Director
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Two-time Oscar Nominated Writer-Director Bryan Buckley has been dubbed the "King of the Super Bowl" by the New York Times, having directed over 65 commercials for the big game since 2000. Many pieces of Buckley's work have been inducted into the Museum Of Modern Art's permanent collection and he is an esteemed recipient of the DGA award, multiple Emmy awards, and over 60 Cannes Lions - including two Grand Prix wins in 2019. A 2010 Adweek Readers Poll named Buckley the Commercial Director of the decade and he was also chosen as one of the 50 best Creative Minds in the last 25 years by Creativity Magazine. In 2022, Buckley won best director from the CLIOs, D&AD and One Show. Buckley's The Lost Class won Hungry Man Productions the title of best production company of 2022 at the CLIO awards and won a Titanium Lion from Cannes and an Emmy nomination for outstanding commercial.
After graduating at the top of his class from Syracuse University, Buckley plunged into the Ad business. By the age of 24 he started the company Buckley/DeCerchio with Tom DeCerchio. The brash young agency found their way to the front page of The New York Times Business section, being named one of "Advertising's Antic Upstarts." Their irreverent brand of humor for clients built the company into a $24 million dollar agency within two years and garnered every major advertising award from Cannes Lions to Clios.
Buckley's directing career started in 1994, when he directed the Emmy Award-winning "This is SportsCenter" Campaign. In 1997, Buckley co-founded Hungry Man Productions along with "This is SportsCenter" creator, Hank Perlman. By 2004, the company won the Cannes Festival's Palme D'or as the top commercial production company in the world and has finished in the top ten for more than ten consecutive years, the first production company to do so. Hungry Man has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Rio and Sau Paulo, and boasts an impressive roster of directors including Taika Waititi, Wayne McClammy, and Nanette Burstein.
In 2013, Buckley wrote and directed the short film Asad. The film was shot in Africa with an all Somali refugee cast, and screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide, taking top honors at the TriBeCa Film Festival and Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival, among others. The film was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said of the film: "They deserve two Oscars: One for creative endeavor, and the other for contributing to the collective understanding of our dependence on one another." Bryan returned to Africa for his second feature film, Pirates of Somalia, starring Oscar-winner Al Pacino, Evan Peters, Melanie Griffith, and Barkhad Abdi.
Buckley's first feature film, The Bronze, stars Melissa Rauch as a foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist who must fight for her local celebrity status when a new young athlete's star rises in town. The film was selected to open the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and made a splash in Park City as the breakout comedy of the festival, most notably with what Indiewire called, "one of the most hysterical sex scenes ever put on screen."
In 2020, Buckley received his second Academy Award Nomination for his short film, Saria. Based on true events, the film explores the unimaginable hardships young female orphans faced at the Virgen DE La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala in the days leading up to a tragic fire which claimed 41 of their lives in 2017. The film was shot on location in Mexico with participation of a cast of young actors from a local orphanage. After its release, the film received buzz among the activist community within Guatemala, with whom Buckley has stayed involved in the ongoing fight for justice for the 41 girls killed in the 2017 fire, whom the film is dedicated to. The film was cited by members of Congress in a 2020 letter to the Secretary of State. Congressmen Adriano Espaillat and Vicente Gonzalez stated the film "amplifies global awareness" of the issue, and demanded justice for the victims and an investigation into the whereabouts of the remaining survivors.
His activism work continued in 2021, when Buckley partnered with Parkland families as part of the Change the Ref campaign in support of gun control legislation. Creating a fake school, Buckley tricked former NRA president David Keene and gun-rights advocate and researcher John Lott into addressing a sea of empty chairs, representing children and teenagers who were shot and killed before they could graduate from high school. The work was covered by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and covered across hundreds of media platforms. Now, in 2022, The Lost Class has impressively won four grand CLIO's, the Black Cube for Best of Show at the ADC awards, two Black Pencils from D&AD, Best of Show at The One Show and a Titanium at the Cannes Lions. Most recently, it was nominated for an outstanding commercial Emmy. Lost Class continues to garner accolades as it shouts an important message. In 2022, Buckley directed three more Super Bowl spots: Verizon with Jim Carrey and Geraldine Viswanathan, BMW with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Salma Hayek, and Toyota with Tommy Lee Jones, Rashida Jones, Leslie Jones, and Nick Jonas. The spots were all highly rated after the game, with Forbes naming BMW the "#1 most effective ad of the Super Bowl." This impressive track record has earned Buckley acclaim from the Cannes Lions Creativity Report, cementing his spot as a director of the year.
Buckley has teamed up with Change the Ref to create the NRA Children's Museum. In protest of pro-firearm lobbying following the Uvalde school shooting, the coalition built a mobile museum made of 52 empty school buses representing 4,368 children who lost their lives to gun violence in 2020. The buses feature an exhibit of artifacts, photos, videos, audio recordings, and personal memories of these children who have lost their lives to gun violence. The NRA Children's Museum has delivered its message to Senator Ted Cruz in Houston, with plans to continue its march against government officials who choose monetary and political gain over children's lives.- Colton Gobbo was born on 20 September 2000 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), Orphan Black (2013) and Titans (2018).
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Chris Farquhar was born on July 27, 1982 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada as Christopher Stephen John Farquhar. He is an actor known for his roles in film and television shows, such as Carter (2018), Cardinal (2018), Hard Rock Medical (2014-2018), and Bad Blood (2017). Chris was raised in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He became interested in acting at a young age. After high school, Chris decided to pursue film/television acting. He attended an acting program at the Victoria Motion Picture School in Victoria, British Columbia. In 2002, during his time in Victoria for schooling, Chris landed his first professional acting role. The role placed Chris in a number of episodes of the Canadian produced television series, "Alienated", which aired on SPACE: The Imagination Station. Chris is also a professional magician and performs magic shows throughout Ontario and Quebec.- Kayla Dumont is an Actress from Toronto, Ontario. Kayla graduated from Laurentian University with a Commerce Degree in her hometown before moving to Toronto to pursue her acting career. She has studied with Lewis Baumander (LB Acting Studio) for several years and can be seen most recently in her upcoming film Junction Row, playing the role of Hugo.
- Bobby Maximus is a former UFC fighter, world ranked kick boxer, World Masters BJJ Champion, and has been named one of the 100 Fittest Men Of All Time By Men's Health.
During his career Bobby has been featured in numerous workout publications, conducted many seminars and worked with numerous Tier One Assets and Special Forces groups within the United Stated military. Bobby is also a regular contributor to Men's Health Magazine.
In the past, Bobby was a police officer in serving as a member of the Peel Regional Police Force as well as The Toronto Police Service. He spent time on the road, as part of the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy Team, and also as a Defensive Tactics Instructor.
He has also competed in numerous fight competitions across North America. In 2006 he fought in UFC 58, UFC 62 and Ultimate Fight Night 5, where he won Submission of the Night. Robert also starred on Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter series, was the Ring of Fire light-heavyweight champion and fought for an amateur world kickboxing championship.
In addition to his policing, training and fighting career, Bobby earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario with a double major in Psychology and English. He also earned a Bachelor of Education graduate degree from Lakehead University. - Actor
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Matt Zimmerman was born on 26 December 1934 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Thunderbird 6 (1968), Thunderbirds Are GO (1966) and Thunderbirds (1965). He was married to Shirley Chapman. He died on 9 June 2022 in the UK.- Producer
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Dan Kopelman was born on 15 January 1969 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Malcolm in the Middle (2000), True Jackson, VP (2008) and Me, Myself and I (2017).- Actress
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Angela Narth was born on 4 March 1946 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Miracle in Bethlehem, PA. (2023), Hanukkah on Rye (2022) and The Spencer Sisters (2023).- Frank Giustra was born in August 1957 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He is a producer, known for Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Blade Runner 2099 and Best of the Best (1989).
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Anne Ditchburn was born on 4 October 1949 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978), Curtains (1983) and Coming Out Alive (1980).- Producer
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Lisa Cichelly was born on 15 June 1973 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She is a producer and production manager, known for In the Dog House (2007), Night Hunter (2018) and Fractured (2019).- Actor
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Tony White was born on 3 December 1964 in Sudbury, Ontario. He is an actor, known for The Legacy of Cloudy Falls, Shut Up and Deal (2007) and Noose, the Hangman's Tale.