Early life

Henstridge was born in Springdale, Newfoundland, the daughter of Helen Henstridge, a homemaker, and Brian Henstridge, a construction manager and business owner. Her maternal grandparents were from the Mi'kmaq Nation. She was raised in Fort McMurray, Alberta, with her younger brother, Shane.

Modeling career

At the age of 14, Henstridge entered the Casablanca Modeling Agency's Look of the Year contest and was chosen first runner-up. The following year, she went to Paris to pursue her modeling ambitions. At 15, she was featured on her first magazine cover, the French edition of Cosmopolitan. Several more magazine covers followed and Henstridge went on to do television commercials for products such as Olay, Old Spice, and Lady Stetson. Her modeling career established, Henstridge moved on to a career in movies.

Film

In her 1995 film debut Species, Henstridge played Sil, a genetically engineered alien/human hybrid created from a message received by SETI, who breaks free from the captivity of a laboratory. Pursued by a team of experts who band together to stop her before she multiplies, Sil embarks on a killing spree while also discovering her powerful instinct to mate. Species was an instant hit, making US$113 million at the box office. Notable for its sexual content, the film won Henstridge the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for a scene in which her character, while kissing an aggressive would-be suitor, impales his head with her tongue. In 1998, she played Eve, a more ambiguous genetic duplicate of Sil, in Species II, which was a failure at the box office.

A few smaller independent movies followed, including Bela Donna and Dog Park, with varied box office returns. Henstridge starred opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in the action/adventure movie Maximum Risk. She also starred in the 2000 film The Whole Nine Yards and its 2004 sequel The Whole Ten Yards. Despite having some reservations about the science fiction genre, she signed up for John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) in the lead role. The film was not well-received, with a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2004, she briefly appeared as Eve in Species III.

In 2007, Henstridge was a festival judge at the first annual Noor Iranian Film Festival.

Television

Henstridge has played a number of roles on television, for example in Caracara and The Outer Limits. From 2005 to 2006, she had a recurring role on the ABC drama Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis as a fictional female U.S. president. She also hosted Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed on TLC, a show about urban legends. She guest-starred in the South Park first season episode "Tom's Rhinoplasty" as a substitute teacher, and was credited as "the chick from Species".

Henstridge was working on the TV show She Spies, prior to its cancellation. She has also completed a TV movie for the Lifetime channel titled Widow on the Hill. In 2006, she filmed the CTV original mini-series Would Be Kings in Hamilton, Ontario, for which she won a Gemini Award. She also starred in the expansion set to the video game Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, entitled Kane's Wrath.

In 2008, Henstridge played a role on the ABC show, Eli Stone. She has also been involved with two other productions, joining the cast of Dave Rodriguez's Anytown, an indie drama that examines a racist high school attack and its aftermath. She has also been involved with the production of Should've Been Romeo from American Independent Pictures.

In 2009, Henstridge did a guest spot on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. During this she demonstrated a Newfoundland custom called "Screeching In" which involved getting O'Brien to drink Newfoundland Screech rum and kiss a large fish.

In 2011, she appeared on the season 9 finale and season 10 premiere of CSI: Miami as Renee Locklear. She then starred in the CW TV series The Secret Circle as Dawn Chamberlain.

Personal life

Henstridge was married to actor Damian Chapa from 1995 to 1996. She has two sons by actor Liam Waite, who was her companion for several years: Tristan River, born October 1998, and Asher Sky, born September 2001.

Henstridge was in a relationship with Darius Campbell, a Scottish singer-songwriter, stage actor, and author, since 2004. They became engaged but broke it off in early 2010, to eventually be married on Valentine's Day, 2011. The couple filed for divorce in July 2013.

Henstridge suffers from Hashimoto's thyroiditis, a condition that has caused weight gain.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Species	Sil
1996	Adrenalin: Fear the Rush	Delon
1996	Maximum Risk	Alex Minetti
1998	Standoff	Mary
1998	Species II	Eve
1998	Bela Donna	Donna
1998	Dog Park	Lorna
2000	It Had to Be You	Anna Penn
2000	Whole Nine Yards, TheThe Whole Nine Yards	Cynthia Tudeski
2000	Better Way to Die, AA Better Way to Die	Kelly
2000	Bounce	Mimi Prager
2000	Second Skin	Crystal Ball
2001	Ghosts of Mars	Lt. Melanie Ballard
2001	Kevin of the North	Bonnie Livengood
2002	Steal	Karen
2004	Whole Ten Yards, TheThe Whole Ten Yards	Cynthia Ozeransky
2004	Species III	Eve	Video
2008	Deception	Simone Wilkinson
2009	Anytown	Carol Mills
2010	Let the Game Begin	Angela
2014	Against the Wild	Susan Wade	Video
2014	Anatomy of Deception	-
2014	The Bronx Bull	Sally
2014	Nowhere Safe	Julie Johnson
2014	Badge of Honor	Rebecca Miles
2014	Christmas Gamble, TheThe Christmas Gamble	Susan Wells
2016	Home Invasion	Chloe	Video

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Outer Limits, TheThe Outer Limits	Emma	Episode: "Bits of Love"
1997	Homeboys in Outer Space	Zima	Episode: "Happy Happy, Droid Droid, or Amma Sees Red"
1998	South Park	Ms. Ellen (voice)	Episode: "Tom's Rhinoplasty"
1999	Last Witness, TheThe Last Witness	Rachel Sutherland	TV film
2000	Jason and the Argonauts	Hypsiplye	TV miniseries
2002	Power and Beauty	Judy Exner	TV film
2002-2004	She Spies	Cassie McBain	Main role (40 episodes)
2005	Widow on the Hill	Linda Dupree Cavanaugh	TV film
2005-2006	Commander in Chief	Jayne Murray	Regular role (16 episodes)
2007	Shark	Nicolette Ross	Episode: "Fall from Grace"
2008	Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath	Alexa Kovacs	Video game
2008-2009	Eli Stone	Taylor Wethersby	Main role (26 episodes)
2009	Impact	Dr. Maddie Rhodes	TV miniseries
2009-2010	Time Jumper	Charity Vyle (voice)	Regular role (10 episodes)
2010	You Lucky Dog	Lisa Rayborn	TV film
2010	Devil's Teardrop, TheThe Devil's Teardrop	Margaret Lukas	TV film
2010	Drop Dead Diva	Claire Harrison	Episodes: "Bad Girls", "Freeze the Day"
2011	The Perfect Student	Nicole Johnson	TV film
2011	CSI: Miami	Agent Renee Locklear	Episodes: "Mayday", "Countermeasures"
2011-2012	Secret Circle, TheThe Secret Circle	Dawn Chamberlain	Regular role (21 episodes)
2012	Christmas Song, AA Christmas Song	Diana	TV film
2013	Cold Spring	Sara	TV film
2013	Sister's Nightmare, AA Sister's Nightmare	Cassidy Ryder	TV film
2014	Republic of Doyle	Inspector Valerie O'Brien	Episodes: "Expansion", "Buried"
2014	Selfie	Mrs. Saperstein	Episode: "Pilot"
2014	Hawaii Five-0	Caroline Porter	Season 5 Episode 2: "Ka Makuakane (Family Man)"
2015	Beauty & the Beast	Carol Hall	Guest starring Season 3 (3 episodes)

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