Laura Vandervoort

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Laura Vandervoort at Comic-Con 2010 in San Diego

Laura Dianne Vandervoort (born September 22, 1984 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada ) is a Canadian actress .

life and career

Vandervoort's mother is Canadian while the father is from the Netherlands . Just a few weeks after she was born, Vandervoort fell ill with meningitis that lasted for several months, after which her parents were informed that she would hardly survive it.

Vandervoort began karate at the age of seven and was awarded the Second Degree Black Belt by the Northern Karate Schools at the age of 16 . She also tried soccer , basketball , tennis , baseball and gymnastics . She has another sister. Your third cousin is the award-winning Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent of Newfoundland .

Vandervoort started her career at the age of 13. After taking acting classes for a while and working in the background of a few Canadian television programs , including Road to Avonlea , and then shooting a few commercials, she got her first speaking roles in the Canadian children's series Goosebumps - The Hour of Ghosts and Horror, Horror, Goosebumps .

These first steps in front of the camera were followed by the lead role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Mama's Rendezvous with a Vampire and numerous guest appearances in Canadian TV series and films, including Mutant X and Prom Queen - One Like No One . When she was studying psychology and English at York University at the age of 19 , Vandervoort got the lead role of Sadie Harrison in the CTV music series Instant Star , which she played in all four seasons of the series.

This was followed by a few other guest appearances in television series, including in CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators , before she appeared in 2007 in the seventh season of the US American The CW series Smallville as Clark Kent's cryptonian cousin Kara Kent (Kara Zor -El) or Supergirl was seen. She took on this role again in the eighth season of the series in the episode Son of Zod (original title: Bloodline ), as well as in two episodes of the tenth and final season of Smallville .

She also played from 2009 to 2011 in the US science fiction series V - The Visitors , a new edition of the 1980 series V - The Extra Terrestrial Visitors Are Coming , the role of Lisa , daughter of the leader of the Vs. In 2009, Vandervoort played a leading role in Into the Blue 2 - The Golden Reef . Even after that, she got a few other leading roles, including in the Canadian independent film The Jazzman , where she played alongside Michael Ironside and her ex-boyfriend Corey Sevier , in the two-part miniseries Riverworld , where she was Jessie Machalan , the fiancée the main character, and in the 2011 thriller The Entitled , in which she starred alongside Ray Liotta and Kevin Zegers .

In addition to acting, Vandervoort is committed to the animal rights organization PETA , for which she posed in October 2011 as part of the Exotic Skins campaign and was photographed again in 2014, for an advertising campaign in which the keeping of marine mammals in captivity is denounced.

Vandervoort also works as a voice actress, for example in the video game Spider-Man: Edge of Time , released in 2011 , in which she lent Mary Jane Watson her voice. In 2012 she had a small role in Seth MacFarlane's comedy Ted , opposite Mark Wahlberg .

Since 2013, Vandervoort has played the lead role of Elena Michaels in the mystery television series Bitten , which is based on the Women-of-the-Otherworld book series by Kelley Armstrong and premiered on January 13, 2014 on Syfy TV .

In February 2014, Vandervoort got engaged to British actor and presenter Oliver Trevena. In March 2015, they broke their engagement and separated. Vandervoort currently resides in Los Angeles , California .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Laura Vandervoort (Celebrity): Biography . In: Tvguide.com . Retrieved June 26, 2015. (English)
  2. ↑ Michael Edwards: Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Laura Vandervoort . In: Esquire.com . Retrieved June 26, 2015. (English)
  3. ↑ a b Christina Radish: Laura Vandervoort Talks BITTEN, Joining the Show, Gaining Insight from the Kelley Armstrong Novels, Changing into a Werewolf and the Shocking Finale . In: Collider.com . January 12, 2014. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ilana Rapp: Actress Laura Vandervoort Talks About Being Starstruck . In: Huffingtonpost.com . May 29, 2013. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  5. ↑  (October 18, 2011). The Hour . CBC / Radio Canada . June 26, 2015. 5m08s. (English)
  6. ^ Gordon Pinsent: Biography . In: Imdb.com . Retrieved June 26, 2015. (English)
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Laura Vandervoort - The Bees Knees . In: Thisneedstostop.com . July 25, 2011. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  8. ↑ a b Laura Vandervoort Actress: ABOUT . In: Lauravandervoort.com . Retrieved June 26, 2015. (English)
  9. ↑ a b c Matt Mitovich: Smallville's Supergirl Returns! (But She's Feeling Not-So-Super) . In: Tvguide.com . November 6, 2008. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  10. ↑ a b Natalie Abrams: Supergirl Laura Vandervoort Returns to Smallville . In: Tvguide.com . July 13, 2010. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  11. ↑ Lauren Lloyd: Laura Vandervoort Gets Naked Then Painted in PETA's 'Exotic Skins' Ad . In: Laist.com . October 20, 2011. Archived from the original on March 11, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 26, 2015. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / laist.com
  12. ↑ Chris Jancelewicz: Laura Vandervoort Naked For PETA: Actress Goes Nude For Anti-SeaWorld Campaign . In: Huffingtonpost.ca . April 29, 2014. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  13. ↑ Christy Sullivan: Laura Vandervoort Gets PLEASE: Canadian-Born Actress to Star in New Space Original Series . In: Bellmedia.ca . March 9, 2013. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  14. ↑ KC Blumm: Laura Vandervoort Is Engaged to Oliver Trevena . In: People.com . February 28, 2014. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
  15. ↑ Madeline Boardman: Laura Vandervoort, Oliver Trevena Split: Bitten Star's Engagement Is Off . In: Usmagazine.com . March 2, 2015. Accessed June 26, 2015. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Vandervoort, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vandervoort, Laura Dianne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada