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File No. 544741 · Adjudicated
Gil Bellows
Actor — The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal
Born
1967
Birthplace
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — British Columbia
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
Fun fact
He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before landing Shawshank, one of the first major film roles he booked.
The verdict
Born and raised in Vancouver, playing Tommy Williams in The Shawshank Redemption before he was thirty — one of the most quietly devastating supporting turns in a movie full of them. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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