Rocky Stone

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Rocky Stone
Rocky's headshot from 1991
Born	October 22, 1971 (age 35) Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Rocky Stone (born October 22, 1971) is a Canadian Talent agent.

Rocky began in the early 1980s as an Actor, working mainly in live Theatre.^[1] In 1994 he made the move from the Stage (theatre) to the office and became a Talent agent. From 2002 to 2006, he collected a total of 8,788 toys to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.^[2] The Toy Mountain Campaign is hosted each year by CFTR (AM), CFTO-TV and the Salvation Army.

Many notable actors showed support towards Rocky's Toy Mountain Campaign including Kelsey Lewis in 2003-2004, Hilary Duff in 2004, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in 2004-2005, Avril Lavigne in 2004, Jim Carrey in 2004, Lisa Foiles in 2004, Steven Lawrence in 2004, Andrea Lewis in 2004, Dakota Fanning in 2005-2006, Josette Halpert in 2005-2006, Elle Fanning in 2006 and Alexa Gerasimovich in 2006, just to name a few.

On April 4th of 2004, the Toronto Star newspaper had an article about Kids in the Biz and mentioned Rocky's Kidz (Rocky's Company), as one of the few well respected children's agencies in Toronto.^[3]

In December of 2005, The North Toronto Post Magazine (Canada), The Bayview Post Magazine (Canada) and The Village Post Magazine (Canada) named Rocky as one of "Our City's Greatest Givers" (Toronto). An interview and picture of Rocky was located in the "Hometown Heroes" section of each Magazine.^[4]

In December of 2006, 680 News (CFTR (AM)) announced on their website that Rocky was "the biggest individual At Work Santa supporter". The write-up and a picture is located on the 680 News site at about the middle/bottom of the page. ^[5]