Trivia: To those familiar with Canadian television, actor Patrick McKenna will be most commonly associated with his comedic portrayal of nerdy, buck-toothed Harold Green, nephew of Possum Lodge handyman Red Green, on the madcap CBC sitcom The Red Green Show.McKenna officially debuted on film in 1980, with a bit part in Robert Downey Sr.'s raunchy teen farce Up the Academy, but subsequently broke away from entertainment for around a decade before returning to big- and small-screen productions in the late '80s. In terms of theatrical outings, the actor racked up bit credits in films including the John Candy farce Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) and the Canadian social issue drama Ordinary Magic (1993), starring Paul Anka. On network television, McKenna did guest bits on programs including Eerie, Indiana and Due South, but Red Green remained his bread and butter; he remained with that program throughout its long run, from 1991 through 2006. In 2007, McKenna tackled a small supporting role in Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon's disturbing psychological thriller Stuck.

Trivia: Multi-talented actor/writer Paul Gross stayed true to his Canadian roots and became famous as the crime-busting Royal Canadian Mountie in the TV series Due South. Born in Calgary, Army brat Gross was inspired by his high school drama teacher to become an actor, and he entered the University of Alberta in Edmonton to study the craft. Leaving school early to forge a dual career as an actor and writer, Gross appeared in several TV productions and wrote the screenplay for Atom Egoyan's TV movie In This Corner (1985). By the late '80s and early '90s, he began to score more prominent roles in Canadian and American films, including the Canadian TV movies Getting Married at Buffalo Jump (1989) and Cold Comfort (1990), the well-received TV adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City (1993), the marital dramedy Married to It (1993), and the skiing drama Aspen Extreme (1993). Gross also worked again with Egoyan as the screenwriter for Egoyan's 1993 TV movie Gross Misconduct. After appearing in the Canadian features Paint Cans (1994) and Whale Music (1994), Gross became a primetime regular when his TV movie Due South (1994), about a Mountie who heads to Chicago to track a killer, became a series. Running from 1994 to 1998, Due South's hunky fish-out-of-water hero earned Gross an avid following on both sides of the Canadian border. After Due South went off the air, Gross continued to stick with Canadian TV, starring in the telefilm Murder Most Likely (1999). In the several years to follow, Gross would find success with a number of TV series, like Slings and Arrows, Eastwick, Men with Brooms, and The Yard.