Famous People I've Met
by Krayg | created - 01 Oct 2014 | updated - 21 Jan 2017 | PublicActors, actresses, singers, authors and other famous people I've met over the years at conventions and events.
101. Don Francks
Actor | Heavy Metal
A man who has many irons in the entertainment fire, hirsutely handsome Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician Don Francks (also known as "Iron Buffalo") was born Donald Harvey Francks on February 28, 1932, in Vancouver, British Columbia. One can, with confidence, add drummer, poet, motorcyclist...
102. Michelle Nolden
Actress | The Time Traveler's Wife
Michelle Nolden was born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for The Time Traveler's Wife (2009), Heartland (2007) and Saving Hope (2012). She has been married to Chris Szarka since 1998. They have three children.
103. Von Flores
Actor | Johnny Mnemonic
Von Flores is the stage name of Valentin Andres Tanga Flores IV, a Filipino-Canadian actor. Flores has enjoyed leading roles in a number of television productions, including the series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues and the Atlantis Films TekWar, TekJustice and TekLords TV movies. He has guest ...
104. Leni Parker
Actress | Street Legal
Leni Parker was born on November 5, 1966 in New Brunswick, Canada. She is an actress, known for Street Legal (2019), Mommy's Prison Secret (2017) and 19-2 (2014).
105. Anita La Selva
Actress | Earth: Final Conflict
Anita La Selva is known for Earth: Final Conflict (1997), 12 Litres 8800 Steps (2022) and Dead End Road (2004).
106. Richard Chevolleau
Actor | Narc
Richard Chevolleau was born in October 1966 in Kingston, Jamaica. He is an actor and director, known for Narc (2002), Earth: Final Conflict (1997) and Four Brothers (2005).
107. Maureen Jennings
Writer | Viaticum
Maureen Jennings is known for Viaticum (2019), Murdoch Mysteries (2008) and Bomb Girls (2012).
108. Chris Makepeace
Actor | Meatballs
Chris Makepeace was born on April 22, 1964 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Meatballs (1979), My Bodyguard (1980) and Vamp (1986).
109. Anthony Daniels
Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Initially not a science fiction fan, theatre actor Anthony Daniels was persuaded by his agent to meet George Lucas for the casting of C-3PO in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). He went on to perform the character, both his voice and body in the suit, for all the episodic Star Wars films ...
110. Peter Mayhew
Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Peter Mayhew was born on May 19, 1944 in Barnes, London, England, to Constance Elizabeth (Yeates) and Walter Henry Mayhew. Later resident in Texas, this former resident of Yorkshire, England, was working as a hospital attendant at the King's College Hospital in London when film producer Charles H. ...
111. Adam Busch
Actor | Léon
Attended the East Meadow Public School System. In High School he stole the leads of all the plays. He was in Theatre Guild. Graduating in 1996, he was voted Most-Dramatic in the Senior Superlatives although he spent much of senior year in Florida filming The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996). He ...
112. Amber Benson
Actress | Chance
Amber Benson was born on January 8, 1977 in Birmingham, Alabama. As a young girl, she studied singing, dancing as well as acting. While still in her teens, she was involved in productions at the local community theatre. Her family moved to Los Angeles soon afterwards in 1992 so she could pursue a ...
113. Anaya Farrell
Actress | Rat Race
Anaya Farrell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Rat Race (2001), First Wave (1998) and My 5 Wives (2000).
114. Anthony Head
Actor | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Anthony Stewart Head was born on February 20, 1954 in Camden Town, north London, England. He grew up in Hampton, near Richmond upon Thames in London. He's the youngest son of Seafield Head (a documentary filmmaker) and Helen Shingler (an actress). He is the younger brother of musician/actor Murray ...
115. Barry Morse
Actor | Whoops Apocalypse
Born in London's East End, Barry's career began when he won a full scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 15. Upon graduation, he followed with successful stage runs in London's West End and in theatrical productions throughout the United Kingdom, and appeared on the BBC's ...
116. Brian Downey
Actor | Hobo with a Shotgun
Brian Downey was born on October 31, 1944 in Newfoundland, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Hobo with a Shotgun (2011), Lexx (1996) and Snow Angels (2007).
117. Chris Owens
Actor | RED
Chris Owens was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for RED (2010), The X-Files (1993) and The Incredible Hulk (2008). He has been married to Tara Parker since July 2001.
118. Danny Strong
Producer | Dopesick
Danny Strong started his career as an actor in numerous classic films and TV shows such as Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Gilmore Girls, then transitioned into screenwriting, exploding onto the scene with his 2007 script Recount which was #1 on the Hollywood Blacklist and became an award winning HBO ...
119. Dominic Keating
Actor | Beowulf
Dominic Keating was born on July 1, 1961 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Beowulf (2007), Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (2012) and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001).
120. Erin Gray
Actress | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, ...
121. Felix Silla
Actor | Spaceballs
Felix Silla was born on January 11, 1937 in a small village outside Rome, Lazio, Italy. Silla trained as a circus performer, came to the United States in 1955, and toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Show. His multiple talents -- as a bareback rider, trapeze artist and tumbler -- ...
122. George Hertzberg
Actor | Taken
George Hertzberg was born on November 6, 1972 in Glens Falls, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Taken (2008), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) and That's My Bush! (2001).
123. Gil Gerard
Actor | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Gilbert "Gil" Gerard was born on January 23, 1943 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and did a good deal of acting in high school. He attended the University of Arkansas but dropped out before graduation. He landed a job as an industrial chemist. He became regional manager of a large chemical company, ...
124. Greg Evigan
Actor | DeepStar Six
Born in South Amboy, New Jersey, Greg Evigan grew up in Sayreville. While in high school he won acclaim as Cornelius Hackl in Hello Dolly, which won the New Jersey High School Musical Contest. One month after graduating from Sayreville War Memorial High School in 1971, Greg auditioned for and won a...
125. Jonathan Walker
Actor | Shooter
Jonathan grew up in England but now makes his home in Canada. Made his acting debut in school plays directed by Jenny Bale (Christian Bale's mother). He began his professional career after completing military service as an officer in the Canadian Infantry. He is a screenwriter as well as an actor.
126. Kali Rocha
Actress | Man with a Plan
Kali Rocha was born on December 5, 1971 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Man with a Plan (2016), Liv and Maddie (2013) and Grey's Anatomy (2005). She has been married to Michael Krikorian since 2006. They have two children.
127. Matthew Waterhouse
Actor | Doctor Who
Matthew Waterhouse was born the son of a company solicitor. He joined the BBC as a clerk, working in the news and information department, while also pursuing an acting career. His first TV role was as a public schoolboy in "To Serve Them All My Days" (1980). He had not even started working on that ...
128. Peter Davison
Actor | Doctor Who
Peter Davison was born as Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett on 13 April 1951 in Streatham, London. A decade later, he and his family - his parents, Sheila and Claude (an electrical engineer who hailed from British Guiana), and his sisters, Barbara, Pamela and Shirley, moved to Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, ...
129. Dan Starkey
Actor | Doctor Who
Dan Starkey is known for Doctor Who (2005), Wizards vs. Aliens (2012) and Class Dismissed (2016).
130. Dick Mills
Sound_department | Moonbase 3
Dick Mills was born in 1936 in Gillingham, Kent, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Moonbase 3 (1973), The Two Ronnies (1971) and Captain Zep - Space Detective (1983).
131. Graeme Harper
Director | Doctor Who
Graeme Harper was originally a child actor, appearing in adaptations of The Pickwick Papers (1952) and The Silver Sword (1957) among other productions, before becoming a floor assistant at the BBC in 1965 and then an assistant floor manager in 1969. He worked on the serials Doctor Who: Colony in ...
132. Liana Kerzner
Producer | This Movie Sucks!
Liana Kerzner is known for This Movie Sucks! (2010), Lady Bits (2017) and A Gamer's Guide to Feminism (2016). She has been married to Steven Joel Kerzner since 1999.
133. Patricia Zentilli
Actress | The Jane Show
Patricia Zentilli was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Patricia is an actor, known for The Jane Show (2004), Lexx (1996) and Delmer & Marta (2016).
134. Raelee Hill
Actress | Farscape
Raelee Hill was born on October 24, 1972 in Brisbane, Australia. She is an actress, known for Farscape (1999), Superman Returns (2006) and Water Rats (1996).
135. Virginia Hey
Actress | Mad Max 2
Australian former actress/high-fashion model/Stylist Virginia Hey was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma DLBCL cancer in June 2022, which is cancer of the lymphatic system. It metastasized/spread into her bones, causing the destruction of a large part of her tibia bone in her right leg. ...
136. Stephanie Romanov
Actress | Thirteen Days
Stephanie Romanov is an accomplished actress with many film and television credits to her name. Stephanie has held her own sharing the screen with Kevin Costner, Robin Williams, Keira Knightley, David Boreanaz, Sam Worthington, Andy Griffith, and Michael Murphy to name but a few. She has a broad ...
137. Lani John Tupu
Actor | Farscape
Born November 4, 1955 in Auckland, New Zealand, Lani John Tupu is a New Zealand actor and director of Samoan descent, internationally best known for his roles in Farscape (1999). In 1976 he debuted on TV in the mini-series Epidemic (1976) and two years later he graduated New Zealand Drama School. ...
138. F. Braun McAsh
Actor | Police Academy
F. Braun McAsh was born on September 20, 1953. He is an actor, known for Police Academy (1984), Highlander: Endgame (2000) and Highlander (1992).
139. Stan Lee
Producer | Doctor Strange
Stan Lee was an American comic-book writer, editor, and publisher, who was executive vice president and publisher of Marvel Comics.
Stan was born in New York City, to Celia (Solomon) and Jack Lieber, a dress cutter. His parents were Romanian Jewish immigrants. Lee co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, ...
140. Morgan Blackbyrne
Actor | Black Coat Mob
Morgan Blackbyrne is known for Black Coat Mob (2012), Ragman (2013) and Reliving Marilyn (2018).
141. Karen Cliche
Actress | Thanksgiving
Karen Cliche was born in Sept-Iles, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for Thanksgiving (2023), Saw VI (2009) and Mutant X (2001). She was previously married to Brian Mellersh.
142. Robert Trebor
Actor | 52 Pick-Up
Robert Trebor was born on June 7, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and director, known for 52 Pick-Up (1986), Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) and Raise Your Voice (2004).
143. Alexandra Tydings
Actress | What Death Leaves Behind
Alexandra Tydings was born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She is an actress, known for What Death Leaves Behind (2018), Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) and The Sunchaser (1996). She is married to Ben Luzzatto. They have three children.
144. Gina Torres
Actress | Serenity
Gina was born in New York City and is youngest of three children in a close-knit Cuban American family. Attended New York City's High School of Music and Art She is a gifted mezzo soprano and was trained in opera and jazz and also sang in a gospel choir.
145. Nathan Fillion
Actor | Castle
Nathan Fillion was born on 27 March 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the son of Cookie (Early) and Bob Fillion, both retired English teachers, and has an older brother, Jeff. His father is of French-Canadian descent, and his mother is of English, German, Finnish, and Norwegian ancestry. In ...
146. Melinda Clarke
Actress | Spawn
Melinda Clarke was born on April 24, 1969 in Dana Point, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Spawn (1997), The O.C. (2003) and Nikita (2010). She has been married to Adam Farmer since September 12, 2015. She was previously married to Ernie Mirich.
147. Claire Stansfield
Actress | Drop Zone
Claire was born in London, England. Her father is English and her mother is German. They moved to Canada when she was very young so even though she has a British passport she considers herself a Canadian. She went to school in Toronto and grew up around the High Park area. She worked as a model in ...
148. Christina Carr
Actress | Black Coat Mob
Christina Carr is known for Black Coat Mob (2012) and Simulacrum (2006).
149. Brad Hruboska
Camera_department | Workin' Moms
Completed his BFA at York University Toronto, in 1989 in Film Studies majoring in cinematography. Started doing Steadicam in 1991, and never looked back. Currently working primarily as a steadicam/ A Camera operator in the film and television industry, primarily in drama.
Branched out as Director of...
150. Tex Konig
Actor | Billy Madison
Tex Konig was born on September 10, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Billy Madison (1995), Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980) and Head Office (1985). He died on July 3, 1999 in Toronto, Canada.
151. Robert J. Sawyer
Writer | Flashforward
Robert J. Sawyer has written for ABC, the CBC, CTV, Copperheart, Harmony Gold, Nelvana, Shaftesbury, and gaming giant Ubisoft, among others. He is a member of both the WGA and the WGC, and is past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The ABC TV series FlashForward was ...
152. Leslie Nielsen
Actor | Airplane!
Leslie William Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and raised in Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), Northwest Territories. His mother, Mabel Elizabeth (Davies), was Welsh. His father, Ingvard Eversen Nielsen, was a Danish-born Mountie and a strict disciplinarian. Leslie studied at the Academy of ...
153. Jason Momoa
Actor | Aquaman
Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa was born on August 1, 1979, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the son of Coni (Lemke), a photographer, and Joseph Momoa, a painter. His father is of Native Hawaiian and Samoan descent; and his mother, who is from Iowa, is of German, Irish, and Native American ancestry. Jason ...
154. Casper Van Dien
Actor | Starship Troopers
Casper Van Dien's breakthrough role was as the lead in Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi film Starship Troopers (1997). Still one of the most talked about films of 1997 that has one of the largest cult followings in film history. He was also in Tim Burton's critically acclaimed film Sleepy Hollow (1999), as ...
155. Dina Meyer
Actress | Starship Troopers
Dina Meyer is an American film and television actress best known for her roles as Barbara Gordon in Birds of Prey (2002), Dizzy Flores in Starship Troopers (1997) and Detective Allison Kerry in the Saw installments. Meyer started acting in 1993, with her first major role playing Lucinda Nicholson ...
156. Ben McKenzie
Actor | Gotham
Ben McKenzie was born Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan in Austin, Texas on September 12, 1978, to Mary Frances (Victory), a poet, and Pieter Meade Schenkkan, an attorney. His uncle is playwright Robert Schenkkan. Ben is of Dutch Jewish (from his paternal grandfather), English, and Scottish descent. He ...
157. Morena Baccarin
Actress | Deadpool
Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Her uncle was actor Ivan Setta. She is of Italian as well as Lebanese and Portuguese/Brazilian descent. She moved to New York at the age of ten, when her father was transferred there. She ...
158. William Shatner
Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.
Shatner was born ...
159. Hayley Atwell
Actress | Captain America: The First Avenger
Born in London, England, Hayley Elizabeth Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. An only child, Hayley was named after actress Hayley Mills. Her parents, Alison (Cain) and Grant Atwell, both motivational speakers, met at a London workshop of Dale Carnegie's ...
160. Alan Tudyk
Actor | Rogue One
Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up in Plano, where he attended Plano Sr. High. In 1990, he went on to study drama at Lon Morris Jr. College. While there, he was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for Drama. He was also named Most Likely to Succeed and Sophomore Beau. During this ...
161. Adam West
Actor | Batman
Adam West was born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington, to parents Otto West Anderson, a farmer, and his wife Audrey V. (Speer), an opera singer. At age 10, in 1938, West had a cache of comic books; and starting in 1939, Batman, who appeared in Detective Comics, ...
162. Burt Ward
Actor | Batman
From Caped Crusader to Canine Crusader
Little did aspiring actor Burt Ward know that learning martial arts in addition to his mental and athletic prowess would change his life forever. As a teen-age, Burt had all the makings of a true boy wonder. As an all around athlete, strong in martial arts, ...
163. Steven Joel Kerzner
Actor | This Movie Sucks!
Steven Joel Kerzner was born in 1970 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for This Movie Sucks! (2010), Ed's Big Wham Bam (2000) and Ed's Nite In (2005). He has been married to Liana Kerzner since 1999.
164. Rick Green
Writer | The Red Green Show
Rick Green was born in 1953 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a writer and producer, known for The Red Green Show (1991), Stay Alive (2006) and History Bites (1998). He has been married to Ava Green since 2004. He was previously married to Gunda Green.
165. Ellen Dubin
Actress | Dune
Born in Toronto, the award winning, multi nominated Ellen Dubin has enjoyed a highly unique and diverse career as an actor. She began her career in ballet and then the theater doing a wide variety of characters - from Shakespeare to musicals to dramas to farce. Her penchant for landing bizarre and ...
166. Ajay Fry
Actor | Levity
As the Host of InnerSPACE, AJAY FRY is no stranger to SPACE or the airwaves. Born in Toronto, Ajay attributes his bizarre and creative sense of humour to growing up in Ottawa. His career in television began at an early age with roles on LASSIE, ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK and BIG WOLF ON CAMPUS. He ...
167. Teddy Wilson
Producer | InnerSpace
Teddy Wilson began his career in the entertainment industry as a child actor on the internationally syndicated series You Can't Do That On Television. After earning an Honours B.A. in Political Science, Wilson moved to Toronto to work at the Ontario Legislature. Political advisor by day, he started...
168. Morgan Hoffman
Actress | She Drives Me Crazy
Morgan Hoffman is known for She Drives Me Crazy (2007), Guidestones (2012) and 3 Storeys (2008).
169. John Barrowman
Actor | Torchwood
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, and raised in Joliet, Illinois. He returned to the UK, for a 6 month Shakespeare semester with the United States International University of San Diego, but left to star in the musical production of "Anything Goes," with Elaine Paige. He went on to star in "Miss Saigon," "...
170. Buzz Aldrin
Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and, as Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the...
171. James Irwin
Self | Maclear
James Irwin was born on March 17, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Mary Ellen Monroe. He died on August 8, 1991 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA.
172. Michael Mahonen
Writer | Sandstorm
Michael Mahonen was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, gold mining town in Northern Ontario. He graduated from George Brown Theatre School in 1989. In 2004 he wrote, directed and co-produced "Sandstorm" a feature based on the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Sandstorm won 29 ...
173. Stephen Mendel
Actor | Mad Men
Stephen Mendel began singing at age 8. Educated in Montreal, Canada, he graduated Bishop's University with a BA in drama and began working almost immediately in theater. Film and TV roles followed soon after. He moved to Los Angeles, and was quickly cast in the CBS TV series "Night Heat" (1985 - ...
174. Michèle Duquet
Actress | The Virgin Suicides
Michèle Duquet was born in Quebec, Canada. She is fluent in a total of three languages, English, French and Spanish, and conversant in several others. Although her first language is French, she works in all three languages equally comfortably, having worked on productions in the United States, ...
175. Tamara Hope
Actress | Crimson Peak
Tamara Hope was born on November 2, 1984 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Crimson Peak (2015), The Nickel Children (2005) and Shall We Dance? (2004).
176. Peter Keleghan
Actor | Ginger Snaps
Peter Keleghan was born on September 16, 1959 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Ginger Snaps (2000), The Industry (1998) and The Newsroom (1996).
177. Donald Harron
Actor | The Time Tunnel
Donald Harron was born on September 19, 1924 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for The Time Tunnel (1966), The Spy with My Face (1965) and The Hospital (1971). He was married to Claudette Gareau, Catherine McKinnon, Virginia Leith and Gloria Fisher. He died on January ...
178. Bill Carr
Actor | Spinster
Carr was born in Nova Scotia and raised on Prince Edward Island, graduating from Colonel Gray High School. He went on to Acadia University where he studied English and Theatre. While at Acadia, he met Evelyn Garbary, who offered him a role as the lead in Hamlet. In addition to his studies in ...
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