List: Canadian Americans

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•  Allan Dwan

  Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

  

  30.8%
  

  26.9%
  

  42.3%
  
•  Fay Wray

  Fay Wray (born Vina Fay Wray; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international stardom as an actress in horror film roles, leading to many considering her as the first "scream queen". After appearing in minor film roles, Wray gained media attention being selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars". This led to Wray being signed to Paramount Pictures as a teenager.

  

  22.2%
  

  52.8%
  

  25.0%
  
•  James Randi

  James Randi (born August 7, 1928) (stage name The Amazing Randi) is a Canadian American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician, but when he retired at age 60, he switched to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo.

  

  23.3%
  

  36.7%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Keanu Reeves

  Keanu Charles Reeves (born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian-American actor, best known for his portrayals of a spaced-out metalhead in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (which went on to become a cult classic) and in two action movie projects that were both financial and critical successes: the "ticking time bomb" thriller Speed and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix.

  

  39.6%
  

  20.8%
  

  39.6%
  
•  Mary Pickford

  Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "The girl with the curls," she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous.

  

  33.9%
  

  30.4%
  

  35.7%
  
•  Mack Sennett

  Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy". His short "Wrestling Swordfish" was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.

  

  18.5%
  

  33.3%
  

  48.1%
  
•  Paula Abdul

  Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American pop singer, record producer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality. In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of Pop-R&B hits in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her for fifth among the female solo performers who have reached #1 there.

  

  21.2%
  

  36.5%
  

  42.3%
  
•  Thomas Edison

  Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

  

  33.3%
  

  11.1%
  

  55.6%
  
•  Barbara Stanwyck

  Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.

  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  

  37.5%
  
•  John Huston

  John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He was known for directing a wide range of classics, including The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952) The Misfits (1960), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). He was the son of actor Walter Huston and the father of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.

  

  25.0%
  

  75.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Dan Aykroyd

  Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.

  

  33.3%
  

  22.2%
  

  44.4%
  
•  Frank Gehry

  Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and cities seek Gehry's services as a badge of distinction, beyond the product he delivers.

  

  28.6%
  

  28.6%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Gwen Verdon

  Gwenyth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer who won four Tony awards for her musical comedy performances. With flaming red hair and an endearing quaver in her voice, Verdon was a critically acclaimed dancer on Broadway in the 1950s and '60s.

  

  0.0%
  

  100.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  Norma Shearer

  Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in the world from the mid-1920s until her retirement in 1942. Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but after her 1930 film The Divorcee, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies and dramas, as well as several historical and period films.

  

  62.5%
  

  12.5%
  

  25.0%
  
•  Michael J. Fox

  Michael J. Fox (born June 9, 1961) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American actor, author and voice-over artist. With a film and television career spanning from the 1970s to the present, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990); Alex P.

  

  25.0%
  

  37.5%
  

  37.5%
  
•  Charles Best

  Charles Herbert Best foi um fisiologista canadense. Foi figura de destaque nas pesquisas sobre sangue e diabetes, assistente de Frederick Grant Banting na descoberta da insulina, em 1921.

  

  14.3%
  

  42.9%
  

  42.9%
  
•  John Byrne

  John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero. Byrne's best-known work has been on Marvel Comics’ X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise.

  

  80.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  0.0%
  
•  John Kenneth Galbraith

  John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 1970s and he filled the role of public intellectual in this period on matters of economics. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects.

  

  50.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  10.0%
  
•  Paul Shaffer

  Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer. Currently, he is the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman.

  

  27.3%
  

  36.4%
  

  36.4%
  
•  Phil Hartman

  Phil Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family immigrated to the United States when he was ten. After graduating from California State University, Northridge with a degree in graphic arts, he designed album covers for bands like Poco and America.

  

  42.9%
  

  14.3%
  

  42.9%
  
•  Lorne Michaels

  Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.

  

  40.0%
  

  40.0%
  

  20.0%
  
•  Art Linkletter

  Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter (born July 17, 1912) is a Canadian-American radio and television personality and the former host of two long-running United States television shows: House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio-TV for 19 years. Linkletter was famous for interviewing children on House Party and Kids Say the Darndest Things, which led to a successful series of books quoting children.

  

  0.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  75.0%
  
•  Amanda Bynes

  Amanda Laura Bynes (born April 3, 1986) is an American actress, comedian, fashion designer, singer and voice actor. She was previously a show host of her own TV program The Amanda Show on Nickelodeon. After appearing in several successful television series (All That and The Amanda Show) on Nickelodeon in the mid-to late 1990s and early 2000s, Bynes transitioned to a film career, starring in several films aimed at teenage audiences, including She's the Man (2006) and Hairspray (2007).

  

  29.6%
  

  25.9%
  

  44.4%
  
•  Paulina Gretzky

  Paulina Mary Jean Gretzky (born 19 December 1988) is a Canadian-American model and pop singer.

  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  

  33.3%
  
•  Mitt Romney

  Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman, Republican Party politician, and the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. He is the son of American Motors chairman, three-term Michigan Governor, 1968 presidential candidate, and U.S. Cabinet Secretary George W. Romney, and 1970 Michigan U.S. Senatorial candidate Lenore Romney. Romney was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and served as a Mormon missionary in France.

  

  50.0%
  

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  25.0%