About Serinda Swan
Serinda Swan (born July 11, 1984) is a Canadian actress. She stars as Karla Dixon in the second season of the Amazon Prime Video series Reacher. From 2019 to 2022, she starred as Jenny Cooper in the CBC/CW crime drama series Coroner. In 2017, she starred in Marvel's Inhumans and HBO's Ballers, and also portrayed Anne Bancroft in the first season of Feud (2017). Previously, she guest starred on the WB/CW Superman prequel series Smallville as Zatanna Zatara, a DC Comics-inspired recurring character who is an actual magician. She also starred as Paige Arkin in the USA Network action drama series Graceland (2013–2015) and as Erica Reed in the A&E drama series Breakout Kings (2011–2012). She is the director and cofounder of an online education technology company called Blueprint Kids.
Swan was born in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and lived briefly in Kauai, Hawaii.
Early life
Swan was born in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her father, Scott Swan, is a Canadian theatre director and actor who runs an acting studio.
Career
Her first acting job was in 1989, a small role in the Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini film Cousins, when she was just five years old. One of her early on screen appearances as an adult was in Theory of a Deadman's music video for their single "So Happy", which was released in April 2008. Her first film credit was in 2009 in the romantic comedy The Break-Up Artist.
From 2009 to 2010, she appeared three times on The CW television series Smallville (in the season 8 episode "Hex", the season 9 episode "Warrior", and the season 10 episode "Icarus") as Zatanna Zatara. She also had the role of the Roman goddess, Veritas, in the season six episode "You Can't Handle the Truth" of Supernatural, another CW series, in 2010. In 2010’s Tron: Legacy, she had the role of Siren #2.
From 2011 to 2012, Swan starred as Erica Reed in the A&E television series, Breakout Kings. She shared that many of the prison scenes were shot in actual prisons, while real convicts are also there behind bars. The series was canceled on May 17, 2012.
Swan portrays Zera in the 2017 Brent Ryan Green film, The Veil. In March 2017, it was announced that Swan would portray Medusa in the ABC and Marvel Television series Inhumans. She starred on the series for one season, until 2018, when the series was canceled.
In late 2018, it was announced that Swan would star as the lead of CBC's forthcoming television series Coroner, based on the Jenny Cooper series of novels by M. R. Hall. The series premiered in January 2019 and attracted one million viewers per episode throughout the first season. In June 2020, it was announced that American network The CW had picked up the show during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the lockdowns of production sets on its other shows to fill primetime programming timeslots. The show premiered on August 5, 2020, and attracted over 600,000 viewers during each episode in the first season, and increased as the seasons continued for the network. After four seasons, in June 2022, it was announced that Swan would be leaving the show, and would be potentially replaced by a new actress or actor with a new main character as the lead role. In September 2022, it was announced that she would be joining the cast for season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video series Reacher.
Activism
Swan works with several charities including the Somaly Mam Foundation, United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets, and Heifer International. She is a Founding Ambassador for Friends to Mankind, which describes itself as a non-profit organization that works "with individuals, corporations, and humanitarian organizations for the betterment of humanity".
Filmography
2005 Neal 'n' Nikki as Amanda
2009 The Break-Up Artist as Ashley
2010 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Aphrodite
2010 Tron: Legacy as Siren
2011 Recoil as Darcy
2011 Creature as Emily
2012 Wake as Alex
2012 The Baytown Outlaws as Jez
2014 Jinn as Jasmine Walker
2014 My Sister as Melissa
2015 Sentient as Heather
2016 Hit TV: The Prologue as Julia
2017 Crowbar Smile as Julia
2017 The Veil as Zera
2017 Blood Ride as Maggie
2019 Shangri-La as Vera Thompson
2020 Revenge Ride as Maggie
2021 Redemption Day Kate Paxton
2001 Honey as Billie
2022 Devotion as Elizabeth Taylor
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2006 Supernatural Hospital Receptionist
2007 Exes and Ohs Lucianne
2007 Blood Ties Young Woman
2008 Loch Ness Terror as Caroleena
2008 Psych as Eileen Mazwell
2009 Desperate Escape as Melissa
2009 Hostile Makeover as Amanda Manville
2009 Trust as Tiffany
2009–2010 Smallville as Zatanna Recurring role
2010 Supernatural as Veritas / Ashley Frank
2011 Hawaii Five-0 as Alana
2011–2012 Breakout Kings as Erica Reed Main role
2013 Republic of Doyle as Patti Middlebrooks
2013–2015 Graceland as Paige Arkin Main role
2014 The Tomorrow People as Cassandra Smythe
2014 Chicago Fire as Brittany Baker Recurring role
2017 Feud: Bette and Joan as Anne Bancroft
2017 Ballers as Chloe Recurring role
2017 Inhumans as Medusa Main role
2018 Robot Chicken as Leslie / Katara Voice role
2020 The Twilight Zone as Ellen Lowell
2019–2022 Coroner as Jenny Cooper Main role
2023–2024 Reacher as Karla Dixon Main role
