Sara Canning Biography
Sara Canning was born on July 14, 1987. She is a Canadian actress. She co-starred on The CW television series The Vampire Diaries(2009–14, 17), and appeared in the 2009 feature film, Black Field. She starred as Dylan Weir in the Canadian television series, Primeval: New World, and as Dr. Melissa Conner on the Global medical drama Remedy.
Canning appeared in the 2017 blockbuster film War for the Planet of the Apes. She is also known for her role as Jacquelyn Scieszka in the Netflix TV series A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Sara Canning Age
Sara Canning is 31 years as of 2019. Born July 14, 1987.
Sara Canning Height
Sara Canning is 5′ 6¼” (1.68 m).
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Sara Canning Early life
Sara Canning was born in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada on July 14, 1987. She is the daughter of Wayne and Daphne Canning. She lived in Brown’s Arm, Newfoundland until age eleven, and was then raised in Sherwood Park, near Edmonton, Alberta.
Sara Canning Education
During her teenage years, she became interested in theatre as a student at F.R. Haythorne Junior High. Canning starred in several stage productions while attending Bev Facey Community High School, and acted in shows at her hometown stage at Festival Place.
Canning made her professional acting debut in George Orwell’s 1984 at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton at the age of 18. She began studying general arts at the University of Alberta and considered going into journalism. Still interested in performing, Canning left university at 19 and moved to Vancouver to pursue a career in acting. She graduated from a year-long screen acting program at Vancouver Film School in 2007.
Sara Canning Married
She began her relationship with director Michael Morris in 2006 and the couple ended their relationship in 2011. canning seems to be more focused on her career. her current relationship status is under review. we will update soon.
Sara Canning Career
After graduation Canning found an agent and began acting in television series and TV films produced in Vancouver. She worked in a restaurant and would take time off to film. Her first role was in 2008, playing Nicky Hilton in Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story. In 2009, she guest-starred on Smallville and Kyle XY and starred in the based-on-real-events TV movie, Taken in Broad Daylight. She played Anne Sluti, a 17-year- old girl who was abducted by a demented criminal (James Van Der Beek).
Canning found an agent and began acting in television series and TV films produced in Vancouver. She worked in a restaurant and would take time off to film. Her first role was in 2008, playing Nicky Hilton in Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story. In 2009, she guest-starred on Smallville and Kyle XY and starred in the based-on-real-events TV movie, Taken in Broad Daylight. She played Anne Sluti, a 17-year- old girl who was abducted by a demented criminal (James Van Der Beek).
In 2009, Canning filmed a pilot episode for the CW network television series, The Vampire Diaries. She then starred in the feature film, Black Field, a 19th-century gothic period piece directed by Danishka Esterhazy. Canning shot the drama near Tyndall, Manitoba, Canada on May 2009. She played Maggie McGregor, the older of two British sisters struggling to make their way on the Canadian Prairies. The film premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2009. The Vampire Diaries series was picked up three weeks after she completed work on the film. Canning co-starred on The Vampire Diaries as Jenna Sommers.
Canning is interested in writing and directing. As of September 2010, she was co-writing a love story set in the Western time period. In 2011, she worked on a short film noir, titled Corvus, and shot the Lifetime network film, Hunt for the I-5 Killer, in Vancouver. She filmed the Hallmark Movie Channel Western, Hannah’s Law, in Calgary, Alberta in late 2011, starring alongside Greystone Holt.
Canning appeared in I Think I Do, which began filming in January 2012 in Edmonton. She starred as Audrey, an event planner who runs a business alongside her two sisters (Mia Kirschner and Jenny Cooper). The romantic comedy aired in 2013 on the W and Lifetime networks. She filmed the independent romantic comedy, The Right Kind of Wrong, in Banff, Alberta in late 2012, starring alongside Ryan Kwanten and Catherine O’Hara, directed by Jeremiah Chechik.
Canning starred in the 2012–2013 Space channel television series, Primeval: New World, a Canadian spin-off of the British sci-fi series Primeval. She played predator control expert Dylan Weir, a member of a dinosaur hunting team; the series was filmed in Vancouver. Canning also starred in 2012 with Aaron Ashmore in the dark romantic comedy, I Put a Hit on You. In 2013, she joined the cast of the psychological drama film, Eadweard, starring Michael Eklund. She played Flora, the wife of 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge.
Canning played general surgeon Mel Conner in the Global medical drama, Remedy, co-starring Sarah Allen, Dillon Casey, and Enrico Colantoni. The television series was in production in Toronto from October 2013–January 2014. Broadcast company Shaw Media renewed the series for a second 10-episode season. Canning won the 2014 UBCP/ACTRA best actor and the 2015 Leo Award for Best Lead Performance for her role.
Canning co-starred in War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), a sequel to 2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. She appeared in On the Farm, a Rachel Talalay-directed TV film about serial killer Robert Pickton, and in Hello Destroyer, which premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Canning played Jacquelyn Scieszka in the 2017 Netflix series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on Daniel Handler’s book series of the same. She also starred as the head of a boarding school, Ms. Brixil, in the dystopian thriller, Level 16, written and directed by Danishka Esterhazy. Canning collaborated with Esterhazy a third time in The Banana Splits Movie, a film shot in Cape Town, South Africa.
Sara Canning Movies And Tv Shows
Movies
1. Slap Shot 3: The Junior League 2008
2. Black Field 2009
3. The Right Kind of Wrong 2013
4. I Put a Hit on You 2014
5. Eadweard 2015
6. Hello Destroyer 2016
7. Prodigals 2017
8. War for the Planet of the Apes 2017
9. The Fish and the Sea 2018
10. Level 16 2018
TV Shows
1. Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story 2008
2. Smallville 2008
3. Black Rain 2009
4. Taken in Broad Daylight 2009
5. Kyle XY 2009
6. Come Dance at My Wedding 2009
7. The Vampire Diaries 2009 –2014, 2017
8. The Hunt for the I-5 Killer 2011
9. Supernatural 2012
10. Hannah’s Law 2012
11. Primeval: New World 2012–2013
12. I Think I Do 2013
13. King & Maxwell 2013
14. Garage Sale Mystery 2013
15. Republic of Doyle 2013
16. Remedy 2014–15
17. Hell on Wheels 2014
18. Motive 2016
19. On the Farm 2016
20. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events 2017–2018
21. Once Upon a Time 2018
22. Van Helsing 2018
Sara Canning Salary And Net Worth
The Canadian actor Sara Canning earns a huge amount of money from her acting career. She has appeared in several movies and TV series through which she collects a huge amount of money. As of 2019, her net worth is estimated to be around $1.5 million.
Sara Canning Dead
Sara Canning is I alive.
Sara Canning Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural teen drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the popular book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith. The series premiered on The CW on September 10, 2009, and concluded on March 10, 2017, airing 171 episodes over eight seasons.
The pilot episode attracted the largest audience for The CW of any series premiere since the network began in 2006; the first season averaged 3.60 million viewers. It was the most-watched series on the network before being supplanted by Arrow. The show has received numerous award nominations, winning 4 People’s Choice Award and many Teen Choice Awards.
sara canning portrays Jenna Sommers,
Canning co-starred on The Vampire Diaries as Jenna Sommers, the aunt and guardian of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev), and her younger brother Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen). Canning was younger or the same age as her fellow cast members who played high school students. Makeup artists and the wardrobe team worked to make her look older. Canning also downplayed her Canadian accent for the role. Matthew Davis played her character’s love interest, Alaric. Canning appeared on the second season of The Vampire Diaries from 2010–2011 until her character was killed in the episode “The Sun Also Rises”.
Sara Canning Once Upon A Time
Once Upon a Time is an American fantasy drama television series on ABC which debuted on October 23, 2011, and concluded on May 18, 2018. For the first six seasons, the series took place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales and other stories that were transported to the real world town and robbed of their original memories by the Evil Queen Regina (Lana Parrilla) who used a powerful curse obtained from Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle).
The residents of Storybrooke, where Regina is mayor, have lived an unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own lack of aging. The town’s only hope lies with a bail-bonds person named Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), the daughter of Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), who was transported from the Enchanted Forest to the real world via a magic tree as an infant before she could be cursed. As such, she is the only person who can break the curse and restore the characters’ lost memories. She is aided by her son, Henry (Jared S. Gilmore), with whom she was recently reunited after giving him up for adoption upon his birth, and his Once Upon a Time book of fairy tales that holds the key to breaking the curse. Henry is also the adopted son of Regina, providing a source of both conflict and common interest between the two women.
In the seventh season reboot, an adult Henry Mills (Andrew J. West), along with Regina, Wish Realm Captain Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) and Rumplestiltskin, are found years later in the Seattle neighborhood of Hyperion Heights, where characters from a different realm were brought under a new curse. Hoping to restore her family’s memories, Lucy (Alison Fernandez) must convince her parents, Henry and Cinderella (Dania Ramirez), of the true nature of Hyperion Heights, in the midst of emerging dangers involving Lady Tremaine (Gabrielle Anwar), Mother Gothel (Emma Booth) and Dr. Facilier (Daniel Francis).
Sara Canning guest-starred in the seventh season as Gretel.
Sara Canning Van Helsing
Van Helsing is an American-Canadian dark fantasy horror drama television series that premiered on September 23, 2016, on Syfy in the United States. Van Helsing is set in the near future, where vampires have risen and taken control.
Vanessa Van Helsing, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, awakens from a three-year coma after her supposed death to find herself in a post-apocalyptic world. She is humanity’s last hope, as her unique blood composition gives her the ability to turn vampires human. With this secret weapon, Vanessa becomes a prime target for the vampires.
She has been protected by a Marine ordered to keep her safe, and the doctor who saved her, so she can lead a resistance against the vampires that plague the world’s survivors. In Season Two she journeys east towards a safe haven in Colorado and discovers her long lost sister Scarlett, who has been trained to kill vampires since birth. In Season Three, Vanessa and Scarlett begin hunting the Elders, the original vampires, in order to defeat them for good.
Sara Canning guest stars as Carter (in “Been Away”), the anti-social member of a group of survivors in Axel’s hometown, who may have links to Axel’s past.
Sara Canning Smallville
Smallville is an American television series developed by writer-producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The series, initially broadcast by The WB, premiered on October 16, 2001.
After Smallville’s fifth season, The WB and UPN merged to form The CW, the series’ later United States broadcaster. Smallville, which ended its tenth and final season on May 13, 2011, follows Clark Kent (Tom Welling) in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas before he becomes known as Superman.
The first four seasons focus on Clark and his friends in high school. After season five Smallville ventures into adult settings, eventually focusing on his career at the Daily Planet and introducing other DC comic-book superheroes and villains.
Canning guest stared in Smallville as Tess’ assistant.
Sara Canning A Series Of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, or simply A Series of Unfortunate Events, is an American black comedy-drama web television series from Netflix, developed by Mark Hudis and Barry Sonnenfeld, based on Lemony Snicket’s children’s novel series of the same name. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes, K. Todd Freeman, and Presley Smith with Lucy Punch, Avi Lake, and Dylan Kingwell joining the cast in the second season.
As with the book series, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events follows the misadventures of the three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, following the deaths of their parents in the destruction of their home. While the children are shuffled between various foster homes, they are pursued by Count Olaf who desires to gain control of the vast Baudelaire inheritance before the children come of age. Along the way, the Baudelaires discover their parents’ connections to an elusive secret society.
Sara Canning played Jacquelyn Scieszka, the character was actually more of creation for the show than featured in the books.