Early life

Pope was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an older brother, Kris, also an actor, and a younger brother, Alexander. She began acting during her high school years in Vancouver where she appeared in stage classics such as The Odd Couple, playing Mickey, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, playing Titania. She attended high school at Lord Byng Secondary School near the University of British Columbia campus, where she was a classmate of Cobie Smulders.

Career

Pope started her career with several small roles, such as Disturbing Behavior, Snow Day, and Night Man, before being cast as Sam McPherson on the WB's high-school drama Popular. After the show ended, Pope had several roles in film and television, including The Glass House, Jeff Probst's Finder's Fee, and Orange County. In 2004 she had starred as Maya Kandinski in The Collector. In 2005 she was a guest-star in an episode of FOX's Tru Calling and played an aspiring social worker in the film Eighteen.

In 2007, Pope starred in the Power Up project Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and in Martin Gero's ' intelligent sex comedy ' and Toronto International Film Festival hit, Young People Fucking. In 2009, she appeared in FOX's hit thriller, 24, as Samantha Roth, the president son's girlfriend.

Pope joined the main cast of the short lived NBC courtroom drama series Outlaw in 2010.

Personal life

Splitting her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, Pope is currently attending university when her filming schedule allows. She speaks Italian, Spanish and French fluently and is seeking to expand her education in literature and languages.

On December 29, 2009, Pope and her brother, Kris Pope were driving a black BMW down West Georgia Street in Downtown Vancouver when David Fromradas, 31, of Alberta jumped on top of the car and yelled at them to run him over. When Kris got out of the car, Fromradas jumped in the front seat and drove the vehicle into the new CBC studios. Pope suffered a broken rib, and two cracked vertebrae, Kris suffered severe injuries to his ankle along with another victim who was a passerby.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Girl's Guide to Kissing and Other Nightmares in Teenland, AA Girl's Guide to Kissing and Other Nightmares in Teenland		Short film
1998	Disturbing Behavior	Abbey
1999	Aliens in the Wild, Wild West	Sara Johnson	Video
2000	Snow Day	Fawn
2001	Finder's Fee	Carla
2001	Glass House, TheThe Glass House	Tasha
2002	Orange County	Tanya
2002	Various Positions	Cheryth Bleyn
2003	Nemesis Game	Sara Novak
2004	Whitecoats	Sarah Calder
2004	Everyone	Rena
2005	Window Theory	Angela
2005	Sandra Gets Dumped	Sandra	Short film
2005	Hamster Cage, TheThe Hamster Cage	Candy
2005	French Guy, TheThe French Guy	Anna
2005	Eighteen	Jenny
2005	Two for the Money	Tammy
2005	Break a Leg, Rosie	Rosie	Short film
2005	Sandra Goes to Whistler	Sandra	Short film
2007	Itty Bitty Titty Committee	Shulamith
2007	Beneath	Vanessa
2007	Young People Fucking	Kris
2008	Say Goodnight	Crystal
2008	Edison and Leo	Zella (voice)
2008	Toronto Stories	Roshanna
2009	Life Is Hot in Cracktown	Stacy
2009	Stuntmen	Karla Bravo
2011	S.W.A.T.: Firefight	Kim Byers	Video
2011	Textuality	Simone
2012	Man and Woman	Amy	Short film
2012	Concrete Blondes	Kris Connifer
2013	Elysium	CCB Agent
2013	This Last Lonely Place	Faye Gardner	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Principal Takes a Holiday	Student	TV film
1998	I've Been Waiting for You	Cheerleader	TV film
1998	Night Man	Teresa Chase	Episode: "Manimal"
1999	Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge	Mari Ferraez	TV film
1999	Cooler Climate, AA Cooler Climate	Beth	TV film
1999-2001	Popular	Sam McPherson	Main role (43 episodes)
2000	Trapped in a Purple Haze	Molly White	TV film
2002	Kim Possible	Amelia (voice)	Episode: "The New Ron"
2003	Kim Possible	Amelia (voice)	Episode: "Animal Attraction"
2003	First to Die	Cindy Thomas	TV film
2003	Hemingway: That Summer in Paris	Young Loreto Callaghan	TV film
2003	This Time Around	Melissa 'Mel' Rochester	TV film
2003	Jake 2.0	Rachel / Yori	Episode: "The God, the Bad, and the Geeky"
2003	Tale of Two Wives, AA Tale of Two Wives	Bianca	TV film
2004	Ranch, TheThe Ranch	Beth Ann	TV film
2004	Mountain, TheThe Mountain	Ronnie	Episode: "The Letter"
2004-2005	Collector, TheThe Collector	Maya Kandinski	Regular role (16 episodes)
2005	Young Blades	The Enchantress	Episode: "Enchanted"
2005	Tru Calling	Off. Kate Wilson	Episode: "The Perfect Storm"
2005	Recipe for a Perfect Christmas	J.J. Jenner	TV film
2006	10.5: Apocalypse	Laura Malloy	TV film
2006	Evidence, TheThe Evidence		Episode: "Stringers"
2007	Dirt	Garbo	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2007	4400, TheThe 4400	Kara	Episode: "Till We Have Built Jerusalem"
2007	Whistler	Bailey	Episodes: "The Rules of Attachment: Part II", "Last Run"
2008	Robson Arms	Anke Vermeulen-Papathanasiou	Episode: "Cherchez la Femme"
2008	Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon	Sarah	TV film
2008	24: Redemption	Samantha Roth	TV film
2008	Californication	Annika	Episodes: "Coke Dick & First Kiss", "Blues from Laurel Canyon"
2009	24	Samantha Roth	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2010	Day One	Bonnie	TV pilot
2010	Outlaw	Lucinda Pearl	Main role (8 episodes)
2013	Motive	Sonia	Episode: "Ruthless"
2013	The Tomorrow People	Morgan Burke	Episodes: "Sorry for Your Loss", "Thanatos"
2014	Rush	Beverly	Episode: "You Spin Me Around"

Awards and nominations

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Production	Result
2000	Teen Choice Awards	TV - Choice Actress	Popular	Nominated
2004	Leo Awards	Dramatic Series: Best Supporting Performance by a Female	The Collector	Won
2005	Vancouver International Film Festival	Women in Film Award	The Hamster Cage	Won
2006	Leo Awards	Best Performance by a Female in a Short Drama	Sandra Gets Dumped	Won

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