Trivia: Canadian-born Shenae Grimes established herself as an actress midway through high school, and quickly racked up a long series of teen and young adult roles in prime-time dramas. Grimes is perhaps best known for her ongoing performance as Darcy Edwards on the adolescent soaper Degrassi: The Next Generation -- a spin-off of the legendary Degrassi High. In-between production stints on that series, Grimes interned at Fashion Television (an experience chronicled in the media); she also made a much-publicized guest appearance on Canada's version of MTV Live, and visibly shocked the program's emcees by agreeing to go on a date with on-camera intern Paul Lemieux (which, conveniently, was shown in detail on a subsequent episode). While still doing Degrassi, Grimes was then tapped for one of the principal roles on the CW network's 90210, a spin-off of the original Beverly Hills 90210 about the sudsy intrigues of a middle-class family that moves to Southern California, where the father takes the job of high-school principal; Grimes signed on to play Annie Mills, one of the family's daughters. In 2011 she appeared in the horror sequel Scream 4.

Trivia: Was selected fifth overall in the 2005 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Draft. Began acting after an injury prevented him from playing hockey. Attended the Vancouver Film School Acting Program. His first major role was in the adventure series Yukonic! in 2011.

Trivia: Actress Sara Botsford had to make do early in her career with such Canadian horror films as Murder By Phone (1980) and Deadly Eyes (1982). A more prestigious assignment came her way in the A-budgeted mystery Still of the Night (1982), in which, as Gail Philips, Botsford was billed fifth, after Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, and Joe Grifasi. She was later seen as Barbara in the Robert Redford-Debra Winger starrer Legal Eagles (1986), and as Lady Sarah Phillips in the benighted Whoopi Goldberg vehicle Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986). On television, Sara Botsford starred as predatory producer Ann Hildebrandt in E.N.G., a Lifetime Network soap opera, set in a network newsroom.

Trivia: Canadian-born actress Katie Boland first began to achieve recognition before her 15th birthday, when tapped to portray the manipulative Annie Putnam in the Alliance Atlantis-produced historical miniseries Salem Witch Trials (2003), opposite heavyweights Jonathan Pryce and Alan Bates. After receiving prominent billing in the Canadian television series Terminal City (2005) and essaying a role in the big-screen Canadian feature Mount Pleasant, Boland landed a supporting role in an A-list Hollywood production: Doug Liman's effects-heavy sci-fi adventure Jumper (2008).

Trivia: After a string of guest roles on TV and bit parts in movies, actress Marisol Nichols gained prominence as the lead in the 2001 made-for-television romantic drama The Princess and the Marine. Playing an Arab princess who falls in love with an American Marine, Nichols delivered a performance that earned her the Outstanding Actress in a Made for Television Movie or Miniseries prize at the 2002 American Latino Media Arts Awards. More supporting roles on TV followed until 2005, when Nichols landed the female lead opposite Ron Eldard on the Steven Bochco-produced cop show Blind Justice. The series proved to be short-lived, but Nichols' status as a lead performer was cemented, and in 2006 she was cast on the Kyle MacLachlan legal drama In Justice. That same year, she appeared with Martin Lawrence in the comedy sequel Big Momma's House 2. In 2007, In Justice got the axe from ABC, but not before Nichols joined the cast of Fox's hit serial 24 as Nadia Yassir, a U.S. counter-terrorism agent of Middle Eastern descent struggling with an atmosphere of deepening distrust toward Arabs in the wake of a fictional terrorist attack. For the next few years it appeared as if Nichols was focusing all of her energies toward television, with featuerd roles in The Storm, The Gates, and GCB following in quick succession, and serving well to keep ehr in the public eye.