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Christian Potenza (born December 23, 1972) is a Canadian actor and comedian. He voiced Jude Lizowski on 6teen and Chris McLean in the Total Drama franchise.

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Christian Potenza
Potenza in 2014
Born	(1972-12-23) December 23, 1972 (age 49) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actor comedian
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Edie Inksetter ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2000)​
Children	1[1]

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 CBC Television hockey comedy series The Tournament, as well as CSA Agent Joel in the 2002 Jackie Chan movie The Tuxedo.[2] Most of Potenza's best-known roles are in television commercials, including a giant yellow toothbrush in the "evil gingivitis" commercials for Listerine, a dog in the Fido commercials "The Office" and "The Promotion", as well as a sunflower in Canadian Kia ads. He performed the voice for Jude Lizowski on 6teen; another notable cartoon character is Trevor Troublemeyer on the show Sidekick. He also guest starred in the show Grojband as Party Danimal and performed the voice for Chris McLean in the Total Drama series.

He also appeared in an episode of Colin and Justin's Home Heist in 2007, in which the suburban Oakville home he shares with his daughter Teagan was remodelled.[3]

Potenza also portrays Ryan Archer in the web series But I'm Chris Jericho!.

His YouTube channel, The Infinity Forge (originally called "SwitchBoardNetwork"), largely features videos of his experiences as a voice actor for Teletoon, 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 Niagara College. [4]

Filmography

Feature films

Year	Title	Role
1999	Forever Mine	Corrections Officer
2002	The Tuxedo	CSA Agent Joel
2003	The Arbuckle Academy	Bobby
2004	Ham & Cheese yum yum	Patt Watts
	My Brother's Keeper aka Le Sang du frère (Canada: French title)	Dave
2005	King's Ransom	Officer Holland
	A Wing and a Prayer	Barry
	The White Dog Sacrifice	Rob
	Neil	Homeless Man
2006	Run Robot Run!	Garth
	Population 436	Frank Ramsey
2011	Moon Point	Rick
	Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure	Mic Tech Guy
2013	Bunks	Crawl
2014	Daisy, A Hen into the Wild	Mayor/Mr. Otter
	Shelby	Uncle Stephen

Television

Year	Title	Episode	Role
1997	Riverdale		Jimmy
1998	Naked City: Justice with a Bullet		Rudy
1999	La Femme Nikita aka Nikita (Canada: English title)	Any Means Necessary	Reuben
2000	The Famous Jett Jackson	Beauregard's Beach Bash	Deputy Spencer
	Hendrix		Chas Chandler
	One Kill		Parker
	The Thin Blue Lie		Danny O'Brien
	Twice in a Lifetime	Birds of Paradise	Young Barry Kirkbride
2001	Degrassi: The Next Generation	The Mating Game	Cashier
	The Famous Jett Jackson	Battle of Wilsted	Deputy Spencer
	Leap Years	5 episodes	Lighting Guy
2002	Escape from the Newsroom		Chris
	Patti
2002-2003	Moville Mysteries		Gizzard Gizersky (voice)
2003	The One	Bill
2003-2004	Foolish Girl		Punk Rock Boyfriend (voice)
2004	The Eggs	2 episodes	The Monos
2004–2010	6teen	All	Jude Lizowski (voice)
2005	Funpak	Not-So-Superheroic Adventures of Sidekick shorts only	Trevor Troublemeyer
	The Tournament		Doug
	The Shakespeare Comedy Show	Episode #1.2
2007	Ten Seconds		Friend
2007–2008	Total Drama Island	All, (except "Are We There Yeti?", appeared briefly in a flashback)	Chris McLean (host) (voice)
2008–2009	Total Drama Action	All, (except "Aftermath II: Forgive and For Gwen" and "Aftermath III: O-wen or Lose")	Chris McLean (host) (voice)
2008–2010	Stoked	Take Your Kook to Work Day Grand Theft Whale Bus	Shep (voice) Announcer guy (voice)
2010	Total Drama World Tour	All, (except the Aftermaths)	Chris McLean (host) (voice) Jerd McLean (Chris's cousin) (voice)
2010–2011	Jimmy Two-Shoes	Everyone Can Whistle Heloise's Secret Admirer	Peep (voice)
2010–2013	Sidekick	All	Trevor Troublemeyer (voice)
2011–2013	Almost Naked Animals		Dirk Danger (voice)
2011	Detentionaire	All	Zed (voice) The Skaters (voice)
2012	Total Drama: Revenge of the Island	All	Chris McLean (host) (voice)
2011–2012	Scaredy Squirrel	Life Slaver	Viking (voice)
2012	Murdoch Mysteries	Back and to the Left	Jack "Shoeless Jack" Leary
2013	Skatoony	Pop Video	Chris McLean (host) (voice) Doug (minor character) (voice)
2013	Total Drama: All-Stars	All	Chris McLean (host) (voice)
2013	Last Car Standing	All	Himself (host)
2013	Grojband	Pox N' Roll Grin Reaper	Party Danimal (voice)
2014	Total Drama: Pahkitew Island	All	Chris McLean (host) (voice)
2018	Carter	Episode 8	Clifford
2018	Wishfart	Aw, Man!	(voice)
2018–2022	Total DramaRama	Main Role/ Episodes: Broken Back Kotter, A Hole Lot of Trouble	Jude Lizowski (voice) Chris McLean (voice/guest)
2019–present	Norman Picklestripes		Additional Voices
2020–present	Pikwik Pack		Bison Bros (voice)
2022	Transformers: BotBots		Clogstopper (voice)
2023	Total Drama Island (2022)	All	Chris McLean (host) (voice)

Internet series

Year	Title	Note	Role
2011, 2012, 2018	Inanimate Insanity	Episodes 1, 17 :Season 2 :Ep 12	MePhone4
2011	Tomy Thomas & Friends by Joey Turner	Episode: "Game Show Carnival 2: Rooftop Stranded"	Chris McTrain

References

External links

• Christian Potenza at IMDb
• Potenza's YouTube channel

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Christian Potenza (Ottawa, 25 de diciembre de 1972) es un actor canadiense.

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