Christian Potenza


Christian Potenza is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known for playing Jude on 6teen and Chris McLean in the Total Drama franchise.

Career

He has been in 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. 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.
Potenza also portrays Ryan Archer in the web series But I'm Chris Jericho.
His YouTube channel, 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 animated series on YouTube, including Joey Turner's "Tomy Thomas and Friends" as a spoof of Chris McLean called Chris McTrain and Adam Katz's Inanimate Insanity as MePhone4 For the pilot episode in 2011.

Personal life

He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on December 23, 1972. He married Edie Inksetter in 1997. They divorced in 2000.

Filmography

Feature films

Television

Internet series