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Portrait
File No. 002661 · Adjudicated
Kenneth Welsh
Actor — Twin Peaks, The Sentinel, Life with Judy Garland
Born
1942
Birthplace
EDMONTON, ALBERTA
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
EDMONTON, ALBERTA
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 — Alberta
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 trained at Canada's National Theatre School and kept working steadily in Canadian theatre throughout a screen career that also landed him in Twin Peaks.
The verdict
Born and raised in Edmonton, trained at the National Theatre School, and over three hundred stage, film and television credits across nearly six decades — Windom Earle in Twin Peaks is the one people remember. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org