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Meaghan Rath

Canadian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ443067
Source-derived summary

Meaghan Rath (born June 18, 1986) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her television roles on Being Human, 15/Love, The Assistants, and Hawaii Five-0.

Early life and education

Rath was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her mother is of Indian Goan heritage. Her father is of English and Austrian-Jewish descent. She has a younger brother, Jesse Rath, who is also an actor. She studied Cinema and Communications at Dawson College.

Personal life

On May 16, 2020, Rath married English actor Jack Cutmore-Scott at their Hollywood Hills home. The couple's first son was born in 2021, followed by their second son in 2023.

Editorial summary

“Meaghan Rath” enters the record as canadian actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Meaghan, Rath and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2020, 2021, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-06-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Meaghan, Rath and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Meaghan Rath” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Meaghan, Rath and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q443067. VIAF identifies the subject as 231906463. The Library of Congress control number is no2012019072. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2020, 2021 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from Meaghan Rath” 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.