Lisa Berry is one of Canada’s hottest rising stars, most recently heating things up in the boardroom as Zoe Figgis on NBC’s newest legal drama, The Firm. Sway spends some time with this talented performer from Richmond Hill, Ont. and finds out about her passion for music.

As one of the shows judges, during the cross-country auditions singer Measha Brueggergosman says, “I learned a lot about what it means to be Canadian and what it means to have talent in Canada.” Photo: courtesy www.measha.com.

Just as Hilary played a talk show host, Parsons is now madamenoir.com’s reigning on-air personality with Mommy in Chief, an original web series that explores the challenges of modern moms.

You’d be hard pressed to find a Caribbean-Canadian who hasn’t seen one of Trinidadian Roger Alexis’s racy YouTube videos starring sexy puppets Santana and Pastor Stewart. Now they star in the most successful Trinidadian film ever made.

Your work is your art, and your art is your work. You learn in one, you learn in the other. There’s no getting away from that.

As she came into her own in her early 20s and learned more about herself, Jaggernauth realized she could use her talent for public speaking to launch a broadcasting career. Over the past 10 years, Jaggernauth has made regular appearances on a variety of major television networks including Global TV, MuchMusic, SLICE, CTV and MTV to name a few.

“When I first started out, there were hardly any leading roles for people of colour in Canada,” he says. “You almost had to resign yourself to guest spots or playing the best friend of the main character. Flash forward to today and there’s so many opportunities for people of colour in series’ leads.

Rwanda-born Mireille Urumuri discovered her love for the performing arts when she was only four, living in Spain with her family.

Since leaving the National Basketball Association in 2004, Rick Fox has carved out quite the acting career. In 2007, he had a recurring role on the show Dirt and a lead role in Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns.

To stand in your truth means that even though the world might kind of try and shift you in different ways… you get that power every time you speak up for yourself, every time you overcome a fear or a stress of some sort. That’s what power is.”