Early life

Spiridakos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Greek-born parents, restaurant owners George and Anastasia Spiridakos. She has two brothers. The family moved to her father's hometown, Skala, Greece near Sparta, a few years after she was born, and returned to Canada in 1992. She strongly identifies with her Greek heritage and speaks fluent Greek. Spiridakos began acting in junior high school, and studied at the Actors Training Centre of Manitoba. She graduated from Oak Park High School in Winnipeg in 2000.

Career

Spiridakos moved to Vancouver in 2007 to pursue acting, and within weeks landed her first television role, a small part on Supernatural. She continued working in television, with walk-on roles on Bionic Woman, The L Word, Hellcats, and Psych. Spiridakos appeared in the TV movie Goblin, and the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy. She also had a recurring role on Being Human as werewolf Brynn McLean.

In 2009, she won her first starring role in the Canadian Teletoon series Majority Rules!, playing 15-year-old Becky Richards. She made her feature film debut in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and filmed the low-budget thriller, Kill For Me, with Donal Logue and Katie Cassidy. Spiridakos appeared as Sammi in the 2012 Nickelodeon original movie, Rags. She then landed a lead role on the NBC television series Revolution as Charlotte "Charlie" Matheson, a survivalist in a dystopian future civilization. She auditioned for the role while attending her first pilot season in Los Angeles. Spiridakos shot the pilot in Atlanta, and filmed the first season in Wilmington, North Carolina. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her performance in the first season, losing out to Fringe's Anna Torv. Production moved to Austin, Texas for the series' second season.

Spiridakos guest starred on season 3 of the Showtime sitcom, Episodes, as Dawn, a daughter of character Morning Randolph (Mircea Monroe). In August 2014, Spiridakos helped to raise awareness of the disease ALS by participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge. Spiridakos began a recurring role on the A&E television drama, Bates Motel in 2015, playing Annika Johnson, a prostitute who arrives at the hotel at the start of the third season. She will also star opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the romantic comedy Byrd & the Bees, directed by Finola Hughes. Spiridakos filmed an untitled television pilot for CBS in 2015, directed by Pamela Fryman. She stars as Holly opposite Adam Brody, playing childhood friends who reconnect later in life.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Every Second Counts	Girl #1	Television film
2008	Secret Lives of Second Wives, TheThe Secret Lives of Second Wives	Meredith	Television film
2009	Web of Desire	Megan	Television film
2010	Goblin	Nikki Perkins	Television film
2010	Boy She Met Online, TheThe Boy She Met Online	Cami Winters
2011	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	Party Girl #2
2012	Rags	Sammi	Television film
2013	Kill for Me	Hayley Jones
2015	The Byrd and the Bees	Rebecca Byrd

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Supernatural	Nurse	Episode: "Bedtime Stories"
2007	Bionic Woman	Annie	Episode: "The List"
2007	Aliens in America	Liz	Episode: "Church"
2009	L Word, TheThe L Word	Pretty Young Woman	Episode: "LMFAO"
2009-10	Majority Rules!	Becky Richards	26 episodes
2010	Psych	Saralyn	Episode: "Viagra Falls"
2010	Hellcats	Ella	Episode: "Beale St. After Dark"
2010	Tower Prep	Penny	Episode: "Boo Report"
2011	Soldiers of the Apocalypse	Forty	Unsold TV pilot
2011	Mortal Kombat: Legacy	Blue	Episode: "Raiden"
2012	Being Human	Brynn McLean	4 episodes
2012-14	Revolution	Charlotte "Charlie" Matheson	42 episodes Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television
2014	Episodes	Dawn Randolph	2 episodes
2015	Bates Motel	Annika Johnson	3 episodes

[ Source: Wikipedia ]