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File No. 110230 · Adjudicated
Jacob Tremblay
Actor — Room, Wonder, The Predator
Born
2006
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
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
He won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer for Room, a role that required him to convincingly play a boy who has never seen the outside world.
The verdict
Born and raised in Vancouver, and giving one of the most acclaimed child performances of the decade in Room before he'd turned nine. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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