Raised in Toronto, she pursued Russian literature and film studies at McGill University before entering acting. Early television work began with a 1989 appearance in “War of the Worlds,” and her screen debut arrived in Denys Arcand’s Love and Human Remains (1993). She gained attention as an exotic dancer in Atom Egoyan’s Exotica (1994) and later featured in The Crow: City of Angels (1996) and the…