File No. 471539 · Adjudicated
Fairuza Balk
Actor — American actress (born 1974)
Born
1974
Birthplace
POINT REYES, U.S.
Citizenships
US
Canadianness Score
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2.0/ 5
Weighted across 6 scored criteria
Designation
Gets Yearly Letters from the CRA 📬Not born or raised there — but the CRA always knows where to find them.
Scorecard
Path B — not born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — no
POINT REYES, U.S.
Canadian parentage — no
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — no
None on record
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Canada
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — yes
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
Fun fact
Best known for playing the teenage witch Nancy Downs in The Craft, a role that made her a cult icon of 90s goth culture
The verdict
Born in California to a traveling troupe, she spent early childhood bouncing between the States and Vancouver, where her dancer mother performed. That brief British Columbia stopover gives her a tenuous claim, but she's lived and worked almost entirely south of the 49th since. Canada doesn't really think about her, and she doesn't really think about Canada.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org