Christian Potenza

Christian Potenza
Christian Potenza
	Potenza in 2014
Born	Anthony Christian Potenza; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Occupations	Actor; comedian;
Years active	1997–present
Spouse	Edie Inksetter (m. 1997; div. 2000)
Children	1

Anthony Christian Potenza^[2] is a Canadian actor and comedian. He has voiced Jude Lizowski on 6teen as well as Brando Beaver and both of the Bison Brothers in Pikwik Pack. From 2007 to 2014, Potenza was also the original voice actor for Chris McLean in Total Drama.

Career

Potenza 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.^[3] Most of Potenza's 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 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.^[4]

Potenza also portrays Ryan Archer in the web series But I'm Chris Jericho!. He is the voice of Brando Beaver and both of the Bison Brothers in Pikwik Pack.

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.

In 2023, Potenza began co-hosting a bi-weekly podcast segment on The Corcoran Entertainment Show in which he and his co-host, Franky Corcoran are pitched content ideas from a series of guests.^[5]

Filmography

Film

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
2004	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
2006	Population 436	Frank Ramsey
2011	Moon Point	Rick
2011	Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure	Mic Tech Guy
2013	Bunks	Crawl
2014	Daisy, A Hen into the Wild	Mayor/Mr. Otter
2014	Shelby	Uncle Stephen
2021	V/H/S/94 (Segment Storm Drain)	Cameraman Jeff

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
2002	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
2007–2014	Total Drama	All (except "Are We There Yeti?", TDA Aftermaths II & III; TDWT Aftermaths)	Chris McLean (host) (voice) Jerd McLean (Chris's cousin) (voice)
2008–2010	Stoked	Take Your Kook to Work Day Grand Theft Whale Bus	Shep (voice) Announcer guy (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		Zed (voice) The Skaters (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	Last Car Standing	All	Himself (host)
2013	Grojband	Pox N' Roll Grin Reaper	Party Danimal (voice)
2018	Carter	Episode 8	Clifford
2018	Wishfart	Aw, Man!	Neptune (voice)
2018–2022	Total DramaRama	Main Role/Episodes: Broken Back Kotter, A Hole Lot of Trouble	Jude Lizowski (voice) Chris McLean (voice/guest)
2019–2021	Norman Picklestripes		Additional Voices
2020–2021	Pikwik Pack		Bison Bros (voice)
2022	Transformers: BotBots		Clogstopper (voice)

References

^ "It's that guy". Inside Halton. January 6, 2006. Retrieved May 5, 2021.
^ Christian Potenza Explains All The DRAMA (Part 1 of 2) - The Corcoran Entertainment Show Episode 107 on YouTube
^ Helwig, David (January 22, 2005). "A Saultite take on the Evil Gingivitis". SooToday. Retrieved October 25, 2006.
^ "'50s swamp actor's home" Archived October 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Metro Ottawa, November 4, 2007.
^ "Wrapping up the Drama and Starting Something New: Thursday Think Thank with Christian and Friends". YouTube. February 8, 2024.

External links

[1] "It's that guy". Inside Halton. January 6, 2006. Retrieved May 5, 2021.

[2] Christian Potenza Explains All The DRAMA (Part 1 of 2) - The Corcoran Entertainment Show Episode 107 on YouTube

[sootoday-3] Helwig, David (January 22, 2005). "A Saultite take on the Evil Gingivitis". SooToday. Retrieved October 25, 2006.

[4] "'50s swamp actor's home" Archived October 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Metro Ottawa, November 4, 2007.

[5] "Wrapping up the Drama and Starting Something New: Thursday Think Thank with Christian and Friends". YouTube. February 8, 2024.

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