Life and career

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 (second-degree black belt), basketball, tennis, gymnastics, and baseball. She has a sister named Sarah and she is related to Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent.

She started her career at the age of 13. 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 the Canadian children's series Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark?.

After commercials and guest-starring roles in Mutant X, Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story, Goosebumps, Twice in a Lifetime, Doc, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, Troubled Waters, The Dresden Files, and a few Disney Channel TV movies (Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire and Alley Cats Strike), at age 19, while attending York University where she studied Psychology and English, Vandervoort landed a lead role as Sadie Harrison on the CTV teen drama Instant Star, which ran for four seasons.

In 2006, Vandervoort shot her first feature titled The Lookout with Jeff Daniels, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew Goode and Isla Fisher. Several other TV appearances such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation led Vandervoort to the role of Clark Kent's Kryptonian cousin "Kara Kent" (the woman destined to become Supergirl) on The CW series Smallville. She was a regular in season seven, and appeared in the "Bloodline" episode for season eight. She then returned for another two episodes in the 10th and final season of Smallville.

Following The CW and Smallville, Vandervoort then shot the sequel to the feature film Into the Blue titled Into the Blue 2: The Reef. She next filmed an independent production titled The Jazzman, which also starred Canadian stars Michael Ironside (who appeared in the second V mini-series as well as the 1984 V regular series) and Corey Sevier.

Vandervoort portrayed "Lisa", an extraterrestrial Visitor, in the 2009 ABC science fiction series V, a reboot of the 1980s science fiction franchise of the same name.

In 2010, Vandervoort appeared in the two-part miniseries Riverworld in which she plays Jessie Machalan, the fiancée of war correspondent Matt Ellman who wakes up after death on a planet populated by everyone who has ever lived on Earth. In 2011, she starred in the thriller The Entitled, alongside Ray Liotta and Kevin Zegers.

In October 2011, she posed for PETA as part of the "Exotic Skins" campaign and in 2014, she appeared nude again for an ad that protested against the keeping of marine mammals in captivity. In 2012, she had a small role in Seth MacFarlane's hit comedy film Ted, playing Mark Wahlberg's coworker Tanya.

In 2014, she appeared in the TV adaptation of the Kelley Armstrong novel Bitten, which premiered on January 13, 2014.

Personal life

In February 2014, Vandervoort became engaged to British actor and host Oliver Trevena. In March 2015, the couple split and they called off their engagement.

Vandervoort currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Film

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Penny's Odyssey	Tanya	TV film
2000	Alley Cats Strike	Lauren	TV film (Disney Channel Original Movie)
2000	Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire	Chelsea Hansen	TV film (Disney Channel Original Movie) Nominated—Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie (Comedy): Leading Young Actress
2004	Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story	Young Girl	TV film; uncredited
2005	Falcon Beach	Ashley	TV film
2006	Troubled Waters	Carolyn
2007	The Lookout	Kelly
2009	Out of Control	Marcie Cutler	TV film
2009	Into the Blue 2: The Reef	Dani White	Direct-to-video
2009	The Jazzman	Sara
2009	Damage	Frankie	Direct-to-video
2010	Riverworld	Jessie Machalan	TV film
2011	The Entitled	Hailey Jones
2011	Desperately Seeking Santa	Jennifer Walker	TV film
2012	This Means War	Britta
2012	Broken Trust	Sophie	TV film
2012	Ted	Tanya
2012	Finding Mrs. Claus	Noelle	TV film
2013	Cubicle Warriors	Jessica
2013	Life of the Party	Bea
2014	Coffee Shop	Donavan Turner

Television

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997-98	Goosebumps	Nadine Platt / Sheena Deep	"The Haunted House Game" (season 3: episode 10) "Deep Trouble: Part 1" (season 4: episode 7) "Deep Trouble: Part 2" (season 4: episode 8)
2000	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Ashley Fox	"The Tale of the Laser Maze" (season 2: episode 11)
2000	Twice in a Lifetime	Misty Reynolds	"Even Steven" (season 2: episode 15)
2001	Mutant X	Tina	"Russian Roulette" (season 1: episode 3)
2002	The Gavin Crawford Show	The Girl	1 episode
2004-08	Instant Star	Sadie Harrison	Main role; 49 episodes
2004	Doc	Annis Bennington	"The Family Tree" (season 5: episode 6)
2005	72 Hours: True Crime	Leanne	"Head in a Bucket" (season 2: episode 10)
2005	Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye	Gabbie	"Bad Girls" (season 3: episode 18)
2007	The Dresden Files	Natalie	"Bad Blood" (season 1: episode 5)
2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Miss Tangiers	"Big Shots" (season 7: episode 19)
2007-11	Smallville	Kara Zor-El	23 episodes Main role (season 7) Guest star (season 8 and season 10)
2009-11	V	Lisa	Main role; 22 episodes
2010-11	Family Guy	Jenny / Bridget	"Brian Writes a Bestseller" (season 9: episode 6) "Friends of Peter G." (season 9: episode 10) "Trading Places" (season 9: episode 13)
2012	White Collar	Sophie Covington	"Parting Shots" (season 4: episode 4)
2013	Haven	Arla Cogan	"Reunion" (season 3: episode 12) "Thanks for the Memories" (season 3: episode 13)
2013	CSI: NY	Marcy Sullivan	"Nine Thirteen" (season 9: episode 13)
2014-16	Bitten	Elena Michaels	Main role
2016	Supergirl	Indigo/Brainiac 8	Recurring role; 3 episodes

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Role
2015	"Ruthless Love"	Alexz Johnson	Ballerina

Games

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Spider-Man: Edge of Time	Mary Jane Watson	Voice only

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