Kari Matchett

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Kari Matchett at Comic-Con 2011

Kari Matchett (born March 25, 1970 in Spalding , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian actress .

Life

Kari Matchett was born in Spalding , a small remote town in Saskatchewan . When she was seven, she moved with her parents to Lethbridge , Alberta , where she attended various school classes in dance, music and acting. It was here that her desire to become an actress was strengthened. She was 12 years old at the time.

After moving to Red Deer again and attending the college there , she became a student at the renowned National Theater School of Canada in Montreal . She was very lucky at the time of acceptance, as the university reserves the right to accept only 13 students per year from over 1000 applicants. During her studies she was an exchange student at a Moscow theater school.

Matchett gained her first stage experience in Stratford before she took part in various small roles in television productions. So also in the television series John Woo's Die Unfassbaren ( Once A Thief ), where she was invited by Bill Laurin - one of the producers of the series - for a casting of his new television series Power Play . For this role she received two Gemini Award nominations, the Canadian Emmy Award .

She gained fame primarily through the television series Invasion and the movie Cube 2: Hypercube . She also starred in the five-part television series 5ive Days to Midnight . After that, she was in the sixth season of 24 . She also took on a recurring guest role in the 14th season of Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme . From 2010 to 2014 she starred as Joan Campbell on Covert Affairs . She has another recurring guest role on the series Leverage as Maggie Collins , the ex-wife of lead actor Nathan Ford.

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SURNAME Matchett, Kari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Spalding , Saskatchewan , Canada