nada has talented people from all backgrounds like any other place in the world. Although not all of our Canadian actresses made it to Hollywood there where some that did so here's a list of just 10 beautiful Canadian actresses that where successful in the movie and television industry.
Fawnia Mondey
Fawnia Mondey was an energetic child who was born September 9, 1975 in Kamloops, British Columbia. While growing up Mondey had many hobbies some of which included running, art (drawing), theatre and dancing.
By age 19, she had already got into modeling and posed for Playboy later that year. She then went on to appear in a few popular television shows like X-Files, Outer Limits and Karaoke Queen. Mondey has also appeared in 6 movies, commercials and body building contest two of which she won.
Fawnia Mondey has literally done it all even including being a fitness, glamour, fashion, swimwear, print and runway, lingerie and video model. Today she mostly teaches dancing through her unique line of instructional dance videos. You might even see her on the odd late night commercial promoting her dance videos.
Elisha Cuthbert
This is Elisha Cuthbert who born November 30, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta. She started in the modeling industry when she was only seven years old for various lines of children clothing until becoming a foot model. Elisha finally made her TV debut on the teenage series “Are You Afraid of the Dark” in 1996 and also later went on to co-host another TV series for teenagers called “Popular Mechanics for Kids”. She then went on to appear in the popular TV series 24 and soon after in 2002 finally got her start in movies with small roles and eventually went on to lead roles. The sky is the limit for this Canadian beauty.
Kristin Kreuk
Kristin was born December 30, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia and was not planning on becoming a TV or movie star. Actually Kristin's main goal in life was to compete in gymnastic which she did at National level until grade 11 when she found out she had Scoliosis.
Kristin got her TV start in 2002 when she starred in the teenage soap known as “Edgemont” and stayed with the show until 2005. Only one year after being signed to Edgemont, Kristin then went on to star in the extremely popular TV series “Smallville”. She manages to do both shows for many years until Edgemont ended.
Kristin also did commercials for Neutrogena skin cream and is now the company's longest serving spokesperson. Since the start of her career she has appeared in over four movies and 4 TV series.
Estella Warren
Estella Warren was born here in my city of Peterborough, Ontario on December 23, 1978. While growing up in Peterborough Estella was an active child with big ambitions. Some of her hobbies where horse riding, playing piano, singing and most of all swimming.
She had dreams of being the National Synchronized Swimming Champion and by the age of 12 had started training and by age 17 Estella had become senior National Champion. She later went on to model for various modeling companies and eventually made her movie debut with the 2001 flick “Driven”.
Estella went on to do a few other movies and a couple of TV series and in 2006 she was featured in an INXS video called “Afterglow”.
Daniella Evangelista
Daniella was born September 20, 1982 in Vancouver, British Columbia and was no stranger to acting. At only four years old she started acting which turned out to be her passion in life. Her first appearance in a TV series was in “Lies from Lotus Land” and later went on to the popular teenage soap “Edgemont.
So far Daniella has been in over 46 films and TV series through the years. Some of her hobbies are painting, writing and cooking especially Italian and French. She mainly starred in horror and thriller movies but now she's more into her modeling career.
Rachel Roberts
Rachel Roberts was born April 8, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia and although she is more mainly a model then anything, she has appeared in movies as well.
Her career began in 1994 when she was 16 years old and was discovered by a modeling agent. In 2002, after posing for playboy Rachel landed the lead role in the movie “S1m0ne”.
She has been in 2 movies and has appeared in 6 TV programs but she better known as one of the world's top fashion models. Rachel now lives in New York City with husband Andrew Niccol and newborn daughter.
Victoria Pratt
Born December 18, 1970 in Chesley, Ontario Victoria was more less a tomboy that loved sports. Her movie career did not start off as fast as the other actresses mentioned but instead for many years she worked at the Human Performance Lab in Toronto's York University testing professional athletes and had dreams of becoming an Olympic Gymnast.
