Jodelle Ferland

Ferland started her career in commercials at the age of two, and made her acting debut at age four in the television film Mermaid.[2] For her performance, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination,[3] making her the youngest nominee of the award.[4][5] She made guest appearances in several television series, including Stargate Atlantis, Dark Angel, Stargate SG-1, Smallville and Supernatural, and appeared in films including They and Trapped.

In 2005, she starred in the Terry Gilliam drama Tideland, for which she received a Genie Award nomination in the Best Actress category. Later, she appeared in the 2006 film Silent Hill,[6][7] an adaptation of the well-known video game, and had a supporting role in Good Luck Chuck for Lions Gate Entertainment.[8] In 2006, she was cast opposite Renée Zellweger in the horror movie Case 39 as Lillith Sullivan, which was released in 2009; production was delayed after a fire destroyed the film set in October 2006.[9][10]

Ferland in 2011

In 2010, Ferland played Bree Tanner in the romantic fantasy film Eclipse, the third film of the Twilight series.[11][12] "Usually I read the script before I take a role, but I haven't read this one," she explained. "It's Twilight; of course, I'm going to take it."[13] From 2010 to 2011, she provided voice work for the videogame BioShock 2 and its downloadable content, appeared in the SyFy movie Ice Quake, and starred in the Lifetime television movie Girl Fight.[14][15]

In 2012, Ferland appeared in the drama Mighty Fine,[16][17][18] the horror film The Tall Man,[19] Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods,[20] and had her first starring role in a comedy, in Home Alone: The Holiday Heist.[21] For The Cabin in the Woods, filming took place in 2009.[22][23] She also had a leading voice role in the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman,[24] which earned an Academy Award nomination.[25]

From 2013 to 2014, she starred in the family film Midnight Stallion,[26] the short film Monster,[27] and the crime drama film A Warden's Ransom.[28] In 2015, she starred in the short film The Goodbye Girl[29] and the horror film The Unspoken,[30] which premiered at the Film4 Frightfest Film Festival on October 24.[31] In 2016 she appeared in the Lifetime television movie My Daughter's Disgrace,[32][33][34] and provided the narration for the audio book Wonder Women, written by Sam Maggs.[35]

From 2015 to 2017, Ferland starred as Five in the SyFy series Dark Matter,[36] based on the comic book series of the same name. On the role, she stated "On my latest show Dark Matter people teased me because I was the youngest in the cast but I had been acting the longest.’[5] She received a nomination for the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Television Series in 2016. In 2017, she appeared in the comedy Bigger Fatter Liar, the sequel to the 2002 movie[37] and the horror film Neverknock.[38][39]

In 2018, she appeared in an episode of Frankie Drake Mysteries.[40][41] The same year, Ferland starred as Olive in the digital series Darken: Before the Dark, a prequel to the film Darken.[42][43][44] She is set to appear in the short film Women Seen directed by Amanda Tapping.[45][46]

• Wonder Women (2016) by Sam Maggs, as Narrator