• 2000-

  Torquil CampbellVocals

  Chris SeligmanKeyboards

  Evan CranleyGuitar

  Amy MillanGuitar, vocals

  Pat McGeeDrums
• Stars members Evan Cranley and Amy Millan are a couple. Both musicians also occasionally play in the Toronto rock outfit Broken Social Scene, although Cranley actually considered joining Toronto band Metric before joining Stars.
• Stars signer Torquil Campbell is also an actor. He's appeared on the popular TV shows Sex and the City and Law & Order. He also appears on Amy Millan's two solo albums: Honey from the Tombs (2006) and Masters of the Burial (2009).
• In 2008, Stars were nominated for the Polaris Music Prize for their album In Our Bedroom After the War. The Canadian award also comes with a cash prize of $20,000, but Stars lost to Caribou and his album Andorra.
• Fittingly, Stars' song "You Ex-Lover Is Dead" was used on the TV show The O.C. More oddly though, the song was also used as a dance number for the reality show So You Think You Can Dance on Fox.
• The cover of the European version of Stars' 2004 album Set Yourself on Fire suggests events that may have happened at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. The cover is different in North America not because of the controversial subject matter, but because some people though it was too similar to the cover of Explosions in the Sky's The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place.
• Stars frontwoman Amy Millan had a baby in 2011. Her daughter Delphine Rita Jane Cranley was born on March 21, 2011. Delphine's father is Millan's partner and Stars band mate Evan Cranley.
• In 2008, Stars got the gig of a lifetime opening for Coldplay on their Viva La Vida tour. Stars opened the show to a full house in Ottawa, Ontario.
• Stars' music has appeared in many TV shows, including Queer As Folk, The O.C., Degrassi: The Next Generation, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, Skins, and Chuck.

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