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Kristeen Von Hagen

Canadian-American Comedian and actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ6437733 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kristeen von Hagen (born in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian/American comedian, writer and actress. She is currently the opening comedian for the Las Vegas residency of Puppetry of the Penis

Kristeen is a 4 time Canadian Comedy Award winner and has been seen on the Just for Laughs Festival, Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Showtime's Comedy without Borders as well as 2 Comedy Now! CTV Specials.

As a writer and producer Kristeen has won 4 Canadian Screen Awards. Her recent writing credits include the Juno Awards, Stronger Together, Canada Day and Canada's Walk of Fame.

. Von Hagen has won Best Female Stand-up of at the Canadian Comedy Awards twice. She appears in the NFB documentary on aspiring comics, The Next Big Thing.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kristeen Von Hagen” is canadian-American Comedian and actor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kristeen, Hagen and Canadian-American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 122-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-01-01. For this dossier, Kristeen, Hagen and Canadian-American is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6437733. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kristeen Von Hagen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.