Christian Potenza (born December 23, 1972) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He is best known for voicing Jude Lizowski on ''

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'' and Chris McLean in the ''

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'' franchise.

Career

He has been on television since 1997, when he first appeared in the television series '' Riverdale'' as the character Jimmy. His performances include appearing as Doug in the

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hockey comedy series '' The Tournament'', as well as CSA Agent Joel in the 2002

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movie ''

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''. Most of Potenza's best-known roles are in television commercials, including a giant yellow toothbrush in the "evil gingivitis" commercials for

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, a dog in the Fido commercials "The Office" and "The Promotion", as well as a sunflower in Canadian

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ads. He performed the voice for

Jude Lizowski ''6teen'' (originally titled ''The Mall'') is a Canadian animated series, animated comedy television series originally produced by Nelvana, with the final two seasons being produced by Fresh TV. It began airing on November 7, 2004 until its fina ...

on ''

''; another notable cartoon character is Trevor Troublemeyer on the show ''

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''. He also guest starred in the show ''

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'' as Party Danimal and performed the voice for Chris McLean in the ''Total Drama'' series. He also appeared in an episode of ''

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'' in 2007, in which the suburban Oakville home he shares with his daughter Teagan was remodelled."’50s swamp actor’s home"
. '' Metro Ottawa'', November 4, 2007. Potenza also portrays Ryan Archer in the

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''. His

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channel, The Infinity Forge (originally called "SwitchBoardNetwork"), largely features videos of his experiences as a voice actor for

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, and has gathered a respectable fan following. He has also guest-starred on various independent animated series on YouTube, including Joey Turner's "Tomy Thomas and Friends" as a spoof of Chris McLean called Chris McTrain. He also starred in the YouTube show, Inanimate Insanity as MePhone4 in Episode 1 and in the upcoming interactive video Reddit series Total Drama Hour with Christian Potenza. He co-created the series with Charlie Saylor. Potenza is currently a professor for the Acting for Film and Television program at ''

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''.

Filmography

Feature films

Television

Internet series

References

External links

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Potenza's YouTube channel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Potenza, Christian 1972 births Living people 20th-century Canadian male actors 21st-century Canadian male actors Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Canadian male voice actors Canadian YouTubers Male actors from Ottawa