2010 Special Guests |

Media Guests

Tahmoh Penikett

Feb 6, 2010

Canadian Tahmoh Penikett is best known as Lieutenant Karl “Helo” Agathon on the Emmy Nominated Sci Fi series Battlestar Galactica for which he has received the prestigious Peabody Award. Prior to Battlestar Galactica, Tahmoh joined the cast of the critically acclaimed Canadian series The Cold Squad for their final season. His performance on that series earned him a LEO award nomination. Fans that wanted to see him last year will be happy to know that he'll be here!

Leonard Nimoy

Jan 20, 2010

The Calgary Expo is proud to announce Leonard Nimoy as our Guest of Honor!

One of the most well known and beloved science-fiction figures ever, Leonard Nimoy is an accomplished actor, director and photographer.

Practically a living legend, Leonard Nimoy is best known for his role in Star Trek as First Officer Spock. As a pivotal star in one of the most significant science fiction franchises in the last century, Spock has what most consider the most recognizable greeting ("Live long and Prosper") in movie and television history. He's also appearing in the popular series Fringe as William Bell!

Sid Haig

Jan 19, 2010

Sig Haig is coming to the Calgary Expo!

Sid Haig is an American actor who has starred in dozens of films and television shows. He was a fixture in the films of Roger Corman and well as many “blaxploitation” films of the 1970s. He retired from acting in 1992 because he hated being typecast as the “heavy” in low budget productions, but returned to work for Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown.

Since then he has starred in several films, most notably as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, as well as the remake of Halloween.

Brent Spiner

Jan 12, 2010

Brent Spiner portrayed the pale skinned android Lieutenant Commander Data, one of the most popular characters in the Star Trek universe. He appeared in all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Next Generation, Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as 4 Star Trek feature films. Brent has appeared in films such as Independence Day, Superhero Movie, and the Aviator. He's also made many guest appearances in television shows like Night Court, Twilight Zone, Cheers, Friends, Threshold, and Frazier. He's provided his voice talents for the South Park Movie (as Conan O'Brien), Gargoyles(as Puck), and of course a variety of Star Trek video games.

Billy Dee Williams

Dec 28, 2009

See Star Wars actor Billy Dee Williams at the Calgary Expo this year!

Actor Billy Dee Williams, best known to fans as General Lando Calrissian from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He's also reprised his role in other Star Wars projects and video games, as well as GDI Director Redmon Boyle in the game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. He portrayed district attorney Harvey Dent in the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film.

Tony Todd

Dec 18, 2009

Actor Tony Todd has been in over 100 films and television shows, lending his versatile talents to the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres. He's best known as the Candyman and has appeared in the Final Destination series, the Crow, the Rock, Wishmaster, Platoon, and Night of the Living Dead. He's also the voice of The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He's made guest appearances as Worf's brother Kurn in Star Trek, Boston Public, Hercules, Xena, the X-Files, Smallville, Angel, 24, Stargate SG-1, Chuck and Andromeda!

*Tony Todd charges an autograph fee

Creator Guests

Scott Morse Creator of Soulwind, animator, director and comic artist	Clayton Crain Current x-Force Artist
Camilla d’Errico Painter and Comic Book Artist on Sky Pirates of Neo Terra	Bill Sienkiewicz Legendary Comic artist of The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin
Pia Guerra Penciller and Co-Creator of Y - The Last Man	Tony Harris Starman Artist
Brandon Peterson Marvel Comic Book Artist	Jill Thompson Creator of Scary Godmother
Eric Powell Creator of The Goon Series	Matt Wagner Creator of Grendel & Mage
Kris Straub Webcomic CoCreator of Starslip and Founder of HalfPixel	Brad Guigar Creator of Greystone Inn, Evil Inc., Courting Disaster and Phables
Dave Kellett Writer and Cartoonist of Sheldon	Stan Sakai Creator of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi
Len Wein Co-creator of Wolverine, Swamp Thing, Nightcrawler, Storm and Colossus	Amanda Conner Power Girl penciller and co-creator of Gatecrasher and The Pro
Jimmy Palmiotti Co-Creator of Ash and Painkiller Jane