Laura Vandervoort

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Laura Vandervoort
Vandervoort as Sadie Harrison
Born	Laura Dianne Vandervoort September 22, 1984 (1984-09-22) (age 24) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1997–present
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Laura Dianne Vandervoort^[1] (born September 22, 1984)^[1] is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Kara Zor-El in the television series of Smallville.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Acting career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Laura Dianne Vandervoort was born September 22, 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. She was involved in several sports (soccer, karate, basketball, tennis, gymnastics, and baseball). Entering karate at age 7, she earned a second degree Black Belt from Northern Karate Schools by the age of 16.

Laura began acting at the age of 13. She had always enjoyed entertaining, putting on shows for family and friends. However, what triggered her interest in the arts was a film called My Girl. She received the movie from her aunt at a very young age and after watching realized that acting was what was inside her, and this became her focus.

After taking several classes and doing background work on Canadian shows such as Road to Avonlea and Harriet the Spy she got her first speaking role in Canadian children's series Goosebumps (three episodes) and Are You Afraid of the Dark?

[edit] Acting career

After commercials and guest stars (Mutant X, Prom Queen, Twice in a Lifetime, Doc, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Troubled Waters, The Dresden Files) and a few Disney TV movies (Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire & Alley Cats Strike) Laura at age 19 landed a lead role as “Sadie Harrison” on the CTV television series Instant Star. Instant Star ran for four seasons.

In 2006, Laura shot her first feature titled The Lookout with Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mathew Goode and Isla Fisher. It was the directorial debut of screenwriter Scott Frank. Several other TV appearances such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation led Laura into the hands of the CW network, where she landed the coveted role of Clark Kent's Kryptonian cousin "Kara Kent" (the woman destined to become Supergirl) on the hit CW series Smallville. She was a regular in season seven but was written off in the season finale. She appeared in the "Bloodline" episode for season eight. No word on whether or not she will appear on any other episodes.^[2]

Following the CW and Smallville, Laura then shot the sequel to the feature film Into the Blue titled Into the Blue 2: The Reef. In this film Laura is alongside Chris Carmack (The O.C.) and Marsha Thomason (Las Vegas, Lost). Following Into the Blue 2: The Reef, Laura went directly into filming an independent production titled The Jazzman, which also starred Canadians stars Michael Ironside and Corey Sevier.

On March 22, 2009, she has been cast in a new pilot series for the remake of the classic series V to air on ABC in the fall of 2009, playing the character of Lisa. Vandervoort was also cast in Riverworld in which she will play the fiancée of a war correspondent who after dying wakes up in a land populated by everyone who has ever lived on Earth.^[3]

[edit] Filmography

Year	Project	Role	Notes	Episode
2010	Damage	Frankie	Post-Production
	Riverworld	Jessie	Filming
2009	V	Lisa	Filming
	Into the Blue 2: The Reef	Dani White	Film
	Out of Control	Marcie Cutler	Film
	The Jazzman	Sara	Post-Production
2007–2008	Smallville	Kara Zor-El	Television series	13 episodes
2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Miss Tangiers	Television series	Big Shots
2007	The Lookout	Kelly	Film
	The Dresden Files	Natalie	Bad Blood
2006	Troubled Waters	Carolyn	Film
2005	Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye	Gabbie	Television series	Bad Girls
	Falcon Beach	Ashley	Television series
2004–2008	Instant Star	Sadie Harrison	Television series	49 episodes
2004	Doc	Annis Bennington	Television series	The Family Tree
	Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story	Young Girl	Television series	Uncredited
2002	The Gavin Crawford Show	The Girl	Television series	Episode dated December 1, 2002
2001	Mutant X	Tina	Television series	Russian Roulette
2000	Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire	Chelsea Hansen	Television Movie
	Alley Cats Strike	Lauren	Television Movie
	Twice in a Lifetime	Misty Reynolds	Television series	Even Steven
	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Ashley Fox	Television series	The Tale of the Laser Maze
1997–1998	Goosebumps	Sheena Deep	Television series	3 episodes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Laura Vandervoort at the Internet Movie Database

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