Canada's Best Known Movie Stars

Canada's Best Known Movie Stars

Like many other people I love to sit back and watch a good movie to relax. Well recently after watching a great new horror flick it got me thinking about Canadian movie stars and which were my absolutely favorites. So I did some researching and dug up old memories and came up with this list of 10 past and present Canadian movie stars which I grew up watching. Here are Canada's Best Known Movie Stars enjoy.

Leslie Nielsen:
He was born February 11, 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Leslie Nielsen has been in over 50+ movies and even more television shows but his movie career basically started with the movie "Airplane" in the 1980's where Nielsen plays an odd ball doctor. His father was a Royal Canadian Mountie and his brother was a high ranking Canadian politician that eventually went on to be the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. The Nielsen family has produced nothing but great people. Everyone of Leslie Nielsen's movies I have seen over the years were all a good laugh and for this, is why he's one of my favorite Canadian movie stars.

Michael J. Fox:
Was born June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Michael J. Fox is probably one of Canada's best known stars. I remember growing up watching him in Family Ties, then years later seeing him again in the Back To the Future Movies. Michael J. Fox has appeared in many movies and televisions shows through his acting career and won a number of awards through the years. In early 1991 while filming the movie Doc Hollywood, Fox noticed his finger was twitching. After a few hours of this with no signs of letting up, Fox decided to see a doctor and was diagnosed with Parkinson's. After that Michael became somewhat self conscious about his hand shakes and started to hide his hands on his television show Spin City. After that Michael pretty much dropped out of the movie scene but is an avid supporter of stem cell research. Michael J. Fox will always be recognized as one of Canada's and my favorite movie stars.