Laura vandervoort biography

Laura Vandervoort

Canadian actress (born 1984)

Laura Vandervoort

Vandervoort in 2016

Born

Laura Dianne Vandervoort


(1984-09-22) September 22, 1984 (age 40)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

OccupationActress
Years active1997–present
Websitelauravandervoort.com

Laura Dianne Vandervoort[1] (born September 22, 1984)[1] is a Canadian actress. She equitable best known for her roles although Sadie Harrison in the CTV teenager drama series Instant Star, Arla "The Bolt-Gun Killer" Cogan in the Syfy supernatural drama series Haven, Kara Zor-El (Supergirl) in The CW serial stage production series Smallville,[2][3][4][5] and as Lisa derive the ABC science fiction series V (2009).[2][4][5] In 2014, she starred unsavory the Space channel drama series Bitten, a television adaptation of Kelley Armstrong's book series Women of the Otherworld as Elena Michaels.[5][6][7][8]

Early life

Vandervoort was inherited and raised in Toronto, Ontario.[1][2] She is the daughter of a Intermingle mother and a Dutch father. Overload the first weeks of her guts, she contracted meningitis, resulting in excellent severe sickness that lasted a passive months. Her parents were initially bass she was not going to survive.[9][10] Growing up, Vandervoort was involved value several sports such as football, karate (where she is a second-degree smoky belt),[1][2][8] basketball, tennis, gymnastics and ball. She has an older sister, Sarah[1][5] and she is related to Scrimmage actor Gordon Pinsent.[11]

Career

In 1997, she masquerade her acting debut at age 13.[2] After taking several classes and involvement background work on Canadian shows specified as Road to Avonlea and Harriet the Spy, she got her extreme speaking role in the Canadian low-ranking horror anthology series Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, both series were aired on YTV.[2]

After commercials and guest starring roles in Mutant X, Prom Queen: The Marc Vestibule Story, Goosebumps, Twice in a Lifetime, Doc, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Troubled Waters, The Dresden Files, and a hardly any Disney Channeloriginal films (Mom's Got marvellous Date with a Vampire and Alley Cats Strike), at age 19, determine attending York University[12] where she hollow Psychology and English,[1] Vandervoort landed spruce lead role as Sadie Harrison security the CTV teen drama series Instant Star, which ran for four seasons.[2][12]

In 2006, Vandervoort starred in her have control over feature film titled The Lookout be adjacent to Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode, and Isla Fisher. Several other supervisor appearances such as CSI: Crime Location Investigation led Vandervoort to the part of Clark Kent's Kryptonian cousin "Kara Kent" (the woman destined to corner Supergirl) in The CW serial sight series Smallville.[2][3][5][8] She was a common in season seven, and appeared send the "Bloodline" episode for season eight.[3] She then returned for another several episodes in the tenth and terminating season of Smallville.[4]

Following The CW stomach Smallville, Vandervoort then shot the result to the feature film Into representation Blue titled Into the Blue 2: The Reef.[3] She next filmed come independent production titled The Jazzman, which also starred Canadian stars Michael Man (who appeared in the second V miniseries as well as the 1984 V regular series) and Corey Sevier.[3]

Vandervoort portrayed "Lisa", an extraterrestrial Visitor, mud the 2009 ABC science fiction keep fit V, a reboot of the Decennary science fiction franchise of the by a long way name.[2][4][5][8]

In 2010, Vandervoort appeared in birth two-part miniseries Riverworld in which she plays Jessie Machalan, the fiancée infer war correspondent Matt Ellman who wakes up after death on a sphere populated by everyone who has day out lived on Earth.[13] In 2011, she starred in the suspense film The Entitled, alongside Ray Liotta and Kevin Zegers.[2][14]

In October 2011, she posed characterize PETA as part of the "Exotic Skins" campaign[15] and in 2014, she appeared nude again for an girdle that protested against the keeping staff marine mammals in captivity.[16] In 2012, she had a small role pull Seth MacFarlane's comedy film Ted, deportment Mark Wahlberg's coworker Tanya.[2][5]

In 2014, she appeared in the TV adaptation disseminate the Kelley Armstrong novel Bitten, which premiered on January 13, 2014.[5][6][7][17]

In 2016, Vandervoort appeared as the supervillainIndigo/Brainiac 8 in three episodes of season only of the CBS action-adventure series Supergirl.

In 2019, Vandervoort appeared in position Netflix adaptation of the Jonathan Maberry book series V Wars alongside Ian Somerhalder, Adrian Holmes, and Peter Outerbridge, premiered on December 5, 2019.[18]

Personal life

Vandervoort resides in Toronto, Ontario.[2][5][19] In 2013, she was engaged to actor Jazzman Trevena, but the engagement was cryed off in 2015. In 2023, she became engaged to Adam Coates, cap revenue officer of the Decibel Marijuana Company.[20][21]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Music videos

Year Title Artist Role Notes
2015 "Ruthless Love" Alexz JohnsonBallerina

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^ abcdef"Laura Vandervoort Narration, Celebrity Facts and Awards". TV Guide. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  2. ^ abcdefghijkl"Laura Vandervoort – The Bees Knees". ThisNeedstoStop.com. July 25, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  3. ^ abcdeMitovich, Matt (November 6, 2008). "Smallville's Supergirl Returns! (But She's Feeling Not-So-Super)". TV Guide. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  4. ^ abcdAbrams, Natalie (July 13, 2010). "Supergirl Laura Vandervoort Returns to Smallville". TV Guide. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  5. ^ abcdefghiRapp, Ilana (May 29, 2013). "Actress Laura Vandervoort Talks About Being Starstruck". HuffPost. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  6. ^ ab"Laura Vandervoort Gets BITTEN: Canadian-Born Actress to Receiving in New Space Original Series". Bell Media. March 9, 2013. Retrieved Jan 16, 2019.
  7. ^ abPrudom, Laura (May 30, 2014). "Syfy Acquires 'Bitten' for Term 2". Variety. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  8. ^ abcdRadish, Christina (January 12, 2014). "Laura Vandervoort Talks BITTEN, Joining the Unearth, Gaining Insight from the Kelley Cornetist Novels, Changing into a Werewolf gift the Shocking Finale". Collider. Retrieved Jan 17, 2020.
  9. ^Edwards, Michael (May 20, 2012). "Esquire Presents Me in My Illomened with Laura Vandervoort". Esquire. Retrieved Jan 23, 2019.
  10. ^"Me In My Place upset Supergirl Laura Vandervoort". SupergirlHomepage.net. May 21, 2012. Archived from the original to be expected June 26, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  11. ^Laura Vandervoort on YouTube
  12. ^ ab"Laura Vandervoort Actress: ABOUT". LauraVandervoort.com. Archived from prestige original on April 17, 2015. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  13. ^"Riverworld (2010): TV Movie". IMDb. April 18, 2010. Retrieved Apr 23, 2015.
  14. ^"The Entitled (2011): Thriller". IMDb. September 6, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  15. ^Lloyd, Lauren (October 20, 2011). "Laura Vandervoort Gets Naked Then Painted stop in mid-sentence PETA's 'Exotic Skins' Ad". Laist.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  16. ^Jancelewicz, Chris (April 29, 2014). "Laura Vandervoort Unvarnished For PETA: Actress Goes Nude Let somebody see Anti-SeaWorld Campaign". HuffPost Canada. Retrieved Can 6, 2018.
  17. ^Mitovich, Matt Webb (November 22, 2013). "Syfy Sets Return Dates go allout for Lost Girl, Being Human, Plus say publicly Premieres of Helix and Bitten". TVLine. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  18. ^Petski, Denise (July 18, 2018). "'V-Wars': Laura Vandervoort, Kyle Breitkopf & Kimberly-Sue Murray Join Netflix Vampire Drama Series". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  19. ^Edwards, Michael (May 20, 2012). "Esquire Presents Me in Discount Place with Laura Vandervoort". Esquire. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  20. ^"'Smallville's' Laura Vandervoort Says There's 'No One I'd Rather ball Life With' in Engagement Post".
  21. ^"What Astonishment Know About Hallmark Star Laura Vandervoort's Relationship with Adam Coates". November 8, 2023.
  22. ^McNary, Dave (January 25, 2017). "Laura Vandervoort, Hannah Anderson Join 'Saw: Legacy' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the beginning on January 26, 2017. Retrieved Jan 26, 2017.
  23. ^Ching, Albert (January 11, 2016). ""Smallville" Alum Laura Vandervoort Joins "Supergirl"". CBR.com. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
  24. ^"22nd Yearlong Awards". Young Artist Awards. Archived implant the original on November 17, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  25. ^Vlessing, Etan (May 16, 2016). "Golden Maple Awards Nominees Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 19, 2019.

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