Jared Keeso

Actor / Comedian — Letterkenny, Shoresy, 19-2

Born

1984

Birthplace

LISTOWEL, ONTARIO

Citizenships

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 soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

LISTOWEL, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

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

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

Before acting he played junior hockey for the Listowel Cyclones and the Strathroy Rockets, where one of his teammates was future two-time Stanley Cup champion Jeff Carter. He then played Don Cherry — twice — in a pair of CBC movies, winning a Gemini for it. The family sawmill burned down in 2018.

The verdict

Born in Listowel, Ontario on July 1, 1984 — Canada Day, which is becoming a pattern around here. Spent years working the family sawmill, Keeso and Sons, founded in 1872, and played junior hockey in the GOHL alongside a future two-time Stanley Cup champion before he ever took a role. Then he played Don Cherry twice for the CBC, won a Canadian Screen Award for 19-2, and built Letterkenny and Shoresy out of the exact stretch of small-town Ontario he came from. He isn't performing Canadian. He's the one writing it down. Five points.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable