Laura Vandervoort

Laura Dianne Vandervoort is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Sadie Harrison in the CTV teen drama Instant Star, Arla The BoltGun Killer Cogan in the Syfy supernatural drama Haven, Kara ZorEl in The CW TV series Smallville, and Lisa in the ABC science fiction series V. In 2014, she starred in the Space drama series Bitten, a TV adaption of Kelley Armstrongs book series Women of the Otherworld as Elena Michaels.

Vandervoort was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of a Dutch father and a Canadian mother. In the first weeks of her life she contracted meningitis, resulting in a severe sickness that lasted a few months. Her parents were told she was not going to survive. Growing up, Vandervoort was involved in several sports such as football, karate , basketball, tennis, gymnastics, and baseball. She has a sister named Sarah and she is related to Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent.

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