While the state of the film and TV industry is somewhat in flux let’s look to the future profiling five up coming Canadian stars.
Lets look at these Canadian stars who have already carved out incredible careers. The five are Vanessa Morgan, Sarah Desjardins, Sarah Jeffery, Tiera Skovbye and Kiana Madeira.
Vanessa Morgan
Vanessa Morgan is an Ottawa born actress whose first major role was on the ABC show The Latest Buzz that she starred in. The next high profile role was starring in My Babysitter’s A Vampire initially a TV movie for Teletoon in Canada before becoming a TV series also airing in the US on the Disney channel.
After appearing in two shows from MTV’s short scripted era, Finding Carter and The Shannara Chronicles Morgan joined fan favourite show Riverdale playing Toni Topaz. Morgan will soon appear in Wild Cards for CBC.
Sarah Desjardins
Desjardins can currently be seen in critically acclaimed show Yellowjackets the latest of a number of high profile roles. You might recognise her from the critically acclaimed series Impulse in which she starred alongside Maddie Hasson. We just got finished seeing her in Netflix hit show The Night Agent where she played the daughter of the Vice President.
Sarah Jeffery
Sarah Jeffery has already had a number of high profile roles at a young age. She is one of the stars of hit Disney Channel franchise Descendants appearing across the animated series and two of the films. Jeffery was one of the leads in the Charmed reboot which ran for four seasons.
Tiera Skovbye
Vancouver born Skovbye is already an incredibly experienced actress with dozens of credits and major roles in TV and film. Recently, she played Missy McMurray in family drama Ride. Appearing alongside Nancy Travis and Beau Mirchoff in the Hallmark/CTV drama that ran for one season.
Kiana Madeira
The Toronto born actress came to prominence recently with the horror trilogy Fear Street. Based on the books by R.L. Stine, Madeira starred in it alongside Olivia Scott Welch. She also starred in Trinkets, a Netflix show than ran for two seasons, alongside Deadpool alum Brianna Hildebrand.
Her latest film Perfect Addiction sees her in the starring role. She plays boxing trainer Sienna who seeks revenge on her cheating ex the current champion by training his rival. Check out the trailer below.
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