Cast
The majority of the cast of Flashpoint are Canadians, including Enrico Colantoni, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Mark Taylor and Ruth Marshall. Amy Jo Johnson is the only American actress starring in the Canadian-made drama; she said that she had no problems being in Flashpoint despite announcing to the press that she was already pregnant with her first child with her fiancé Oliver Giner during initial production of Flashpoint.
Ruth Marshall left the series after Season 1 and Mark Taylor left after the fourteenth episode of Season 2 (aka episode 211) after his character, Lou, dies. During Amy Jo Johnson's pregnancy, she was temporarily replaced by Jessica Steen who played Donna Sabine. Steen left the main cast in the sixth episode of Season 2, Part 1 when Johnson's character returned full-time, although she has appeared in some later episodes. Taylor was replaced by Olunike Adeliyi who portrays Leah Kerns as of the second episode of Season 2, Part 2 (aka episode 212). In season 4, episode 5, Michael Cram, known as "Wordy", left the show due to his character's diagnosis with Parkinson's Disease.
In an interview, the creators of the show stated that they like to cast only Canadians in the show; the only non-Canadians that have been on the show are Amy Jo Johnson, Colin Cunningham and Ben Bass., the latter two live in Canada, with Bass having Canadian citzenship as well.
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