Kim F. Coates is a Canadian–American actor who has worked in both Canadian and American films and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is best known for his role as Alexander "Tig" Trager in the FX series Sons of Anarchy and as Declan Gardiner in the Citytv series Bad Blood, as well as his recurring roles in Prison Break, Cold Case, CSI and CSI: Miami. He has also had film roles in The Last Boy Scout (1991), Bad Boys (1995), King of Sorrow (2006), Goon (2011).
Marie Lise Monique Émond, better known as Monique Mercure, was a Canadian stage and screen actress. She was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory. In 1977, Mercure won a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Canadian Film Award for her performance in the drama film J.A. Martin Photographer.
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television presents an annual award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role to the best performance by a lead actor in a Canadian film. The award was first presented in 1968 by the Canadian Film Awards, and was presented annually until 1978 with the exception of 1969, when no eligible feature films were submitted for award consideration, and 1974 due to the cancellation of the awards that year.
Michel Côté is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his performances in the films Cruising Bar, Life After Love and C.R.A.Z.Y., the theatrical show Broue and the television series Omertà.
Tony Nardi is an Italian-Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director based in Toronto, who has performed on stage and in film and television.
Alexandre Landry is a Canadian film, television and stage actor. He is best known for his role in the 2013 film Gabrielle, for which he garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.
Patrick Hivon is a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec. He was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for Guardian Angel , a Gémeaux Award nominee as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2015 for Nouvelle adresse, a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Ville-Marie, and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019 for We Are Gold .
Mylène Mackay is a Canadian actress. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards for her performance in Endorphine. In 2016, she appeared as Nelly Arcan in Anne Émond's film Nelly, and as Marguerite in André Forcier's film Kiss Me Like a Lover .
Gabriel Sabourin is a Canadian actor and screenwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2017 film It's the Heart That Dies Last , for which he received Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.
Boost is a 2016 Canadian drama film directed by Darren Curtis.
Marine Johnson is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2017 film The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.
Émile Proulx-Cloutier is a Canadian actor and musician. He is most noted for his performance in the film We Are the Others , for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Théodore Pellerin is a Canadian film and television actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film Family First , for which he won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards, and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. In 2021, he starred as Oliver Larsson in the Netflix film There's Someone Inside Your House.
Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the film A Colony , for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.
Richard Clarkin is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance in the 2017 film The Drawer Boy, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.
Anthony Therrien is a Canadian actor from Charlemagne, Quebec. He is most noted for his performances in the films Fake Tattoos , for which he was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017, and Slut in a Good Way , for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018.
Vincent Leclerc is a Canadian actor from Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film The Fall of the American Empire , for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, and his starring role as Séraphin Poudrier in the television series Les Pays d'en haut, for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Actor in a Short Run Drama Series in 2016.
Thomas Antony Olajide, sometimes also credited as Thomas Olajide, is a Canadian actor from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is most noted for his performance in the 2021 film Learn to Swim, for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, and as co-creator with Tawiah M'carthy and Stephen Jackman-Torkoff of Black Boys, a theatrical show about Black Canadian LGBTQ+ identities which was staged by Buddies in Bad Times in 2016. Olajide, M'carthy, and Jackman-Torkoff were collectively nominated for Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 2017.
