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Paul Nutarariaq

Canadian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ61629834 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paul Ike Nutarariaq is a Canadian actor most noted for his performance in the 2018 film The Grizzlies, for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.

He is originally from Igloolik, Nunavut but was primarily raised in Iqaluit.

He previously appeared in the films Throat Song and Iqaluit, and in the CBC comedy series Little Dog.

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

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paul, Nutarariaq and Canadian.
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“Paul Nutarariaq” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paul, Nutarariaq and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jan 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61629834. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Nutarariaq” 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.