Asian-Canadian filmmakers

The list Asian-Canadian filmmakers includes Avan Jogia, Tommy Chong, Sook-Yin Lee, Nisha Ganatra and Deepa Mehta. The list consists of 77 members.

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Avan Jogia

Canadian actor (born 1992)

Overview: Avan Tudor Jogia (born February 9, 1992) is a Canadian actor, singer, writer, and activist. He is best known for his television roles Beck Oliver in Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious, Danny Desai in ABC Family ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1992

Age: 33

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Halsey (Engaged)

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Canadian male sitcom actors 58T

Canadian male comedy actors 22T

21st-century Canadian male singers 620T
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Tommy Chong

Canadian-American actor and musician

Overview: Thomas B. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-American actor, writer, director, musician, cannabis rights activist and comedian. He is known for his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong comedy albums ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1938

Age: 86

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

Partner: Shelby Chong (Married)

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Comedians from Alberta 21T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

The Masked Singer (American TV series) contestants 55T
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Sook-Yin Lee

Canadian actress

Overview: Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian broadcaster, musician, film director, and actress, best known as a former MuchMusic VJ and a former radio host on CBC Radio.

Date of birth: 4 October 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Canadian women radio hosts 107T

LGBT film directors 581T

21st-century LGBT people 3,420T
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Nisha Ganatra

Canadian film director

Overview: Nisha Ganatra (born June 25, 1974) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actress of Indian descent. She wrote, directed, and produced the independent comedy drama Chutney Popcorn ...

Date of birth: 25 June 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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Canadian actresses of Indian descent 27T

Film directors from Vancouver 89T

Women television directors 300T
5.

Deepa Mehta

Indian, Director

Overview: Deepa Mehta, (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005).

Date of birth: 15 September 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

Partner: David Hamilton (Married)

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Screenwriters from Toronto 215T

Film producers from Ontario 169T

Canadian women documentary filmmakers 171T
6.

Fawzia Mirza

American actor

Overview: Fawzia Mirza is a Pakistani-Canadian film and television actress, writer, producer and comedian. She is known for her works such as web series Kam Kardashian, Brown Girl Problems and the film Signature ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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21st-century Canadian women writers 944T

Muslim female comedians 13T

21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 309T
7.

Indrani

Indian-born Canadian-British director, photographer, artivist and lecturer

Overview: Indrani is a multi-racial Indian-Jamaican-Canadian-British director and photographer.

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

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21st-century American women photographers 267T

Canadian fashion photographers 1T

Canadian portrait photographers 14T
8.

Zarqa Nawaz

Canadian film director and writer

Overview: Zarqa Nawaz (born 1968 in Liverpool, England) is a Canadian freelance writer, journalist, broadcaster, and filmmaker of Pakistani origin.

Date of birth: 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Female

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Canadian women memoirists 70T

21st-century memoirists 301T

Canadian women non-fiction writers 669T
9.

Kid Koala

Canadian DJ and musician

Overview: Eric San (born December 5, 1974), aka Kid Koala, is a world-renowned scratch DJ, music producer, film composer, video game composer, multimedia-performer and award winning graphic novelist. He has released ...

Date of birth: 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Disc Jockey

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McGill University Faculty of Education alumni 24T

Canadian hip hop DJs 7T

Lovage (band) members 4T
10.

Aisling Chin-Yee

Canadian film producer, director, and writer

Overview: Aisling Chin-Yee (born 1982) is a Canadian film director, writer, and producer, who works primarily in Montreal and Los Angeles. In addition to her work as a producer, Chin-Yee directed the films The Rest ...

Date of birth: 29 April 1982

Age: 43

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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Canadian women documentary filmmakers 163T

Film directors from Nova Scotia 39T

Canadian women film producers 170T
11.

Mellissa Fung

Canadian journalist

Overview: Mellissa Fung is a Canadian journalist with CBC News, appearing regularly as a field correspondent on The National.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Journalist

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Canadian journalists of Chinese descent 5T

Canadian women television journalists 207T

Journalists from British Columbia 62T
12.

Ali Rizvi Badshah

Canadian actor, writer, producer, director, and comedian

Overview: Ali Badshah (full name Syed Ali Mehdi Rizvi Badshah) is a Canadian actor, writer, producer, director and comedian. Badshah is the male lead in the Oscar-nominated feature film drama The Breadwinner. He ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Comedian

Gender: Male

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Canadian male television writers 115T

21st-century Canadian comedians 121T

21st-century Canadian screenwriters 166T
13.

Best Buds

Canadian actor and comedian

Overview: Thomas B. Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, musician and activist. He is known for his role/inspiration in the marijuana industry, his marijuana-themed Cheech & Chong ...

Genre: Comedy

Director: Ken Kuramoto, Tommy Chong

Cast: Tommy Chong, Shelby Chong, Paris Chong, Gilbran Chong, Precious Chong, Kevin Derksen

Producer: Tommy Chong, Shelby Chong

A pot-advocate comic loses his wife to a Chicano Latin dance instructor.

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Cheech & Chong 8T

Comedians from Edmonton 12T

Screenwriters from Alberta 41T
14.

Rohan Fernando

Canadian film director and artist

Overview: Rohan Fernando (also known as Cecil Fernando) is a Canadian visual artist, painter and film maker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

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Film directors from Nova Scotia 29T

Sri Lankan Tamil artists 1T

Canadian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent 33T
15.

Quentin Lee

Canadian screenwriter and director

Overview: Quentin Lee (Chinese: 李孟熙; pinyin: Lǐ Mèngxī; Cantonese Yale: Lei5 Maang6 Hei1; born 1971) is a Hong Kong, Canadian, and American film writer, director, and producer. He is most notable for ...

Date of birth: 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: Hong Konger

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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LGBT novelists 690T

Canadian male film actors 1,535T

Canadian male novelists 731T
16.

Domee Shi

Canadian filmmaker

Overview: Domee Shi (Chinese: 石之予; pinyin: Shí Zhīyǔ; born September 8, 1989) is a Chinese-born Canadian storyboard artist and director for Pixar since 2011. She has contributed to multiple films, including ...

Date of birth: 8 September 1989

Age: 35

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

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Chinese animated film directors 14T

Canadian animated film directors 99T

Chinese women film directors 37T
17.

Paul Nguyen

Canadian filmmaker

Overview: Paul Nguyen, MSM OMC (born February 23, 1980) is a Canadian filmmaker and social activist. In 2012, he was among the first 60 Canadians to receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal at the i ...

Date of birth: 23 February 1980

Age: 45

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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Journalists from Toronto 110T

Activists from Toronto 38T

Canadian male journalists 353T
18.

Lenin M. Sivam

Canadian film director

Overview: Lenin M. Sivam is a Canadian filmmaker. He was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka and moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1991. He writes and directs all of his movies. His first short, A Few Good People, won ...

Date of birth: 20 June 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Canadian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent 33T

Film directors from Toronto 226T

Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora 5T
19.

Samir Mallal

Canadian filmmaker

Overview: Samir Mallal was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is best known for directing three documentaries: Discordia, Bombay Calling and Nollywood Babylon

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

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Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Canadian people of Indian descent 387T

Concordia University alumni 364T
20.

Suresh Joachim

Canadian film actor, producer, and multiple-Guinness World Record holder

Overview: Suresh Joachim Arulanantham is a Canadian film actor, producer, and multiple-Guinness World Record holder who has broken more than 60 world records set in several countries in attempts to benefit unde ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Tamil male actors 325T

Canadian male film actors 1,554T

Canadian people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent 33T