Sandrine Holt
Encyclopedia
Sandrine Holt is a British
-born Eurasian
Canadian model turned actress.
, England
to a Chinese
father and a French
mother. At age five, she and her family moved to Toronto
, Ontario
, Canada, which has remained her hometown. Holt attended St. Joseph's Morrow Park High School in Willowdale. She worked as a runway model in Paris
before she became an actress.
. She has played characters of various ethnic origins: Polynesian in Rapa Nui
(1994); Chinese in the telemovie and subsequent TV show Once a Thief
(by John Woo
, based on his Once a Thief Hong Kong movie); Native American
as Pocahontas
in Pocahontas: The Legend
; Japanese in the film 1999
; and as a Latina
reporter in 2004's Resident Evil: Apocalypse
.
In 2006, she appeared in a recurring role on the television series 24
as Evelyn Martin, the aide to First Lady
Martha Logan
. In 2007 she appeared in the recurring role of Catherine Rothberg in Showtime's series The L Word
.
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! align="center"| Year
! width="200"| Film
! width="150"| Role
! Notes
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|1991 || Black Robe
|| Annuka || Nomination, Genie Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Award
|-
|1994 || Rapa Nui
|| Ramana ||
|-
|1995 || Dance Me Outside
|| Poppy ||
|-
|1996 || Once a Thief
|| Li Ann Tsei || TV Movie
|-
|rowspan="4" | 1998 || Airtime || ||
|-
|Bronx County || || TV Movie
|-
|1999
|| Suki ||
|-
|Gunslinger's Revenge
(Il mio West) || Pearl ||
|-
|rowspan="2" | 1999 || Loving Jezebel || Mona ||
|-
|Pocahontas: The Legend
|| Pocahontas
(Matoaka) ||
|-
|2000 || Fast Food Fast Women
|| Giselle ||
|-
|rowspan="3" | 2001 || Mission || Ima ||
|-
|Century Hotel
|| Jin ||
|-
|Earth Angels || Wendy || TV Movie
|-
|2002 || Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
|| Agent Bennett ||
|-
|2003 || Happy Hour || Bonnie ||
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2004 || Resident Evil: Apocalypse
|| Terri Morales ||
|-
|Mr Jones: Drive || Woman ||
|-
|2004|| Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
||Pvt.Jill Sandee||
|-
|2005 || Sam's Lake
|| Kate ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2007|| Fire Serpent
||Christina Andrews || TV Movie
|-
|The Dark Room || Leanne Kisoun || TV Movie
|-
|rowspan="1"|2009|| The Phantom
||Guran||TV Movie
|-
|rowspan="1"|2011|| Faces in the Crowd
||Nina #6||Post-Production
|-
|rowspan="1"|2012|| Underworld: Awakening||Lida||post-production
|-
|-}
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! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Television
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! align="center"| Year
! width="200"| Film
! width="150"| Role
! Notes
|-
| 1989 || Friday the 13th: The Series
|| Kamichi || episode "Face of Evil"
|-
| 1995 || Aventures dans le Grand Nord || Kanata || episode "Les légendes du Grand Nord"
|-
|1996 || Poltergeist: The Legacy
|| Ellen || episode "The Fifth Sepulcher"
|-
|1996–1998 || Once a Thief
|| Li Ann Tsei ||22 episodes
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1997 || New York Undercover
|| Julie Chin ||2 episodes
|-
|Two
|| Diana Polasky || episode "Tale of the Tape"
|-
|1998 || The Outer Limits
|| Jade/Laura || episode "Last Supper"
|-
|2001 || Witchblade
|| Sandrine Malraux/TV News Reporter || episodes "Legion" and "Parallax"
|-
|2002 || Mutant X
|| Patricia || episode "The Future Revealed"
|-
|rowspan="3" | 2005 || CSI: Miami
|| Melissa Boone || episode "Sex & Taxes"
|-
|Las Vegas
|| Detective Jenny Cho || 3 episodes
|-
|ER
|| Drew || episode "Nobody's Baby"
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2006 || 24
|| Evelyn Martin ||10 episodes
|-
|Runaway || Erin Baxter || 5 episodes
|-
|2007 || The L Word
|| Catherine Rothberg || 5 episodes
|-
| 2008 ||Burn Up || Mika Namuvai || TV miniseries
|-
|2009 ||Bored to Death
||Niko Oh|| episode "Stockholm Syndrome"
|-
|rowspan="2"|2010||The Mentalist
||Elise Chaye|| episode "Blood in, Blood Out"
|-
|The Line||Rachel||episode "Pilot"
|-
|2011 ||Sanctuary ||Charlotte Benoit|| episode "Monsoon"
|-
|}
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
-born Eurasian
Eurasian (mixed ancestry)
The word Eurasian refers to people of mixed Asian and European ancestry. It was originally coined in 19th-century British India to refer to Anglo-Indians of mixed British and Indian descent....
Canadian model turned actress.
Early life
Holt was born Sandrine Ho in LondonLondon
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
to a Chinese
Han Chinese
Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...
father and a French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
mother. At age five, she and her family moved to Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada, which has remained her hometown. Holt attended St. Joseph's Morrow Park High School in Willowdale. She worked as a runway model in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
before she became an actress.
Acting career
Holt's acting debut was in 1991, appearing in the film Black RobeBlack Robe (film)
Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Northern Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, who adapted it from his novel of the same name....
. She has played characters of various ethnic origins: Polynesian in Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui (film)
Rapa Nui is a 1994 film directed by Kevin Reynolds. It was produced by Kevin Costner and Barrie M. Osborne, among others. The plot is based on Rapanui legends of Easter Island, Chile, in particular the race for the Sooty Tern's egg in the Birdman Cult....
(1994); Chinese in the telemovie and subsequent TV show Once a Thief
Once a Thief (TV series)
Once a Thief was a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.-Premise:...
(by John Woo
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...
, based on his Once a Thief Hong Kong movie); Native American
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
as Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the head of a network of tributary tribal nations in Tidewater Virginia...
in Pocahontas: The Legend
Pocahontas: The Legend
Pocahontas: The Legend is a 1999 drama film that fictionalizes the young life of the historical figure of Chief Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas and her relationship with Captain John Smith. This film was directed by Danièle J. Suissa and stars Sandrine Holt as the titular heroine...
; Japanese in the film 1999
1999 (film)
- External links :***************...
; and as a Latina
Latino
The demonyms Latino and Latina , are defined in English language dictionaries as:* "a person of Latin-American descent."* "A Latin American."* "A person of Hispanic, especially Latin-American, descent, often one living in the United States."...
reporter in 2004's Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a Canadian-British 2004 science fiction action horror film directed by Alexander Witt, from a screenplay written by producer Paul W.S. Anderson...
.
In 2006, she appeared in a recurring role on the television series 24
24 (TV series)
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
as Evelyn Martin, the aide to First Lady
First Lady of the United States
First Lady of the United States is the title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, the title is most often applied to the wife of a sitting president. The current first lady is Michelle Obama.-Current:The...
Martha Logan
Martha Logan
Martha Logan is a fictional character played by Jean Smart in the television series, 24. As the first lady of the United States within the 24 universe, she is the capable but unpredictable and unstable wife of President Charles Logan...
. In 2007 she appeared in the recurring role of Catherine Rothberg in Showtime's series The L Word
The L Word
The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...
.
Filmography
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! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Film
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! align="center"| Year
! width="200"| Film
! width="150"| Role
! Notes
|-
|1991 || Black Robe
Black Robe (film)
Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Northern Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, who adapted it from his novel of the same name....
|| Annuka || Nomination, Genie Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Award
|-
|1994 || Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui (film)
Rapa Nui is a 1994 film directed by Kevin Reynolds. It was produced by Kevin Costner and Barrie M. Osborne, among others. The plot is based on Rapanui legends of Easter Island, Chile, in particular the race for the Sooty Tern's egg in the Birdman Cult....
|| Ramana ||
|-
|1995 || Dance Me Outside
Dance Me Outside
Dance Me Outside is a 1995 drama film directed and co-written by Bruce McDonald. It was based on a book by W.P. Kinsella,-Plot:Set on the Kidabanesee reserve in Northern Ontario. Silas Crow is a young man confused about his direction in life; he wants to take an automobile mechanic's course in...
|| Poppy ||
|-
|1996 || Once a Thief
Once a Thief (1996 film)
Once a Thief is a remake of a 1991 film of the same name. Both films were directed by John Woo. The movie was also made into a 1997 television series also of the same name...
|| Li Ann Tsei || TV Movie
|-
|rowspan="4" | 1998 || Airtime || ||
|-
|Bronx County || || TV Movie
|-
|1999
1999 (film)
- External links :***************...
|| Suki ||
|-
|Gunslinger's Revenge
Gunslinger's Revenge
Gunslinger's Revenge is a 1998 Italian film directed by Giovanni Veronesi and starring Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel and David Bowie. The screenplay was written by Veronesi and Pieraccioni, based on the novel by Vincenzo Pardini....
(Il mio West) || Pearl ||
|-
|rowspan="2" | 1999 || Loving Jezebel || Mona ||
|-
|Pocahontas: The Legend
Pocahontas: The Legend
Pocahontas: The Legend is a 1999 drama film that fictionalizes the young life of the historical figure of Chief Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas and her relationship with Captain John Smith. This film was directed by Danièle J. Suissa and stars Sandrine Holt as the titular heroine...
|| Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the head of a network of tributary tribal nations in Tidewater Virginia...
(Matoaka) ||
|-
|2000 || Fast Food Fast Women
Fast Food Fast Women
Fast Food Fast Women is a 2000 romantic comedy written and directed by Amos Kollek. The tag line for the film was "There are 18 million people in New York City, but only one like Bella." It was entered into the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...
|| Giselle ||
|-
|rowspan="3" | 2001 || Mission || Ima ||
|-
|Century Hotel
Century Hotel
Century Hotel is a 2001 Canadian drama/mystery/romance film. It is directed and co-written by David Weaver and Bridget Newson.The film explains seven different stories, that happen in the same hotel room in different eras, from the 1920s to the 1990s...
|| Jin ||
|-
|Earth Angels || Wendy || TV Movie
|-
|2002 || Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever is a 2002 American action film starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. Liu and Banderas play opposing secret agents who are supposedly enemies, but team up during the movie. The film was universally panned by critics, who generally regarded it as having no redeeming...
|| Agent Bennett ||
|-
|2003 || Happy Hour || Bonnie ||
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2004 || Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a Canadian-British 2004 science fiction action horror film directed by Alexander Witt, from a screenplay written by producer Paul W.S. Anderson...
|| Terri Morales ||
|-
|Mr Jones: Drive || Woman ||
|-
|2004|| Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation is the 2004 direct-to-video sequel to the 1997 feature film Starship Troopers. It had a $7 million budget as opposed to the $105 million of the original. Even though the film received only a direct-to-video released in the United States, it was granted a...
||Pvt.Jill Sandee||
|-
|2005 || Sam's Lake
Sam's Lake
Sam's Lake is a horror movie starring Sandrine Holt, Fay Masterson, and William Gregory Lee, it was an official selection at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
|| Kate ||
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2007|| Fire Serpent
Fire Serpent
Fire Serpent is a 2007 Sci Fi Channel film.-Plot:A solar flare from the sun sends a serpentine alien of fire to Earth, where it begins to wreak havoc among a small community in its search for more fuel, in the form of a large military oil reserve for fuel....
||Christina Andrews || TV Movie
|-
|The Dark Room || Leanne Kisoun || TV Movie
|-
|rowspan="1"|2009|| The Phantom
The Phantom
The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...
||Guran||TV Movie
|-
|rowspan="1"|2011|| Faces in the Crowd
Faces in the Crowd (film)
Faces in the Crowd is a thriller-horror film written and directed by Julien Magnat, starring Milla Jovovich, Julian McMahon, David Atrakchi, Michael Shanks, Sandrine Holt, and Sarah Wayne Callies.-Plot:...
||Nina #6||Post-Production
|-
|rowspan="1"|2012|| Underworld: Awakening||Lida||post-production
|-
|-}
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Television
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" align="center"
! align="center"| Year
! width="200"| Film
! width="150"| Role
! Notes
|-
| 1989 || Friday the 13th: The Series
Friday the 13th: The Series
Friday the 13th: The Series is an American-Canadian horror television series that ran for three seasons, from October 3, 1987 to May 26, 1990 in first-run syndication....
|| Kamichi || episode "Face of Evil"
|-
| 1995 || Aventures dans le Grand Nord || Kanata || episode "Les légendes du Grand Nord"
|-
|1996 || Poltergeist: The Legacy
Poltergeist: The Legacy
Poltergeist: The Legacy is a Canadian horror television series which ran from 1996 to 1999. The series tells the story of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy, and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers...
|| Ellen || episode "The Fifth Sepulcher"
|-
|1996–1998 || Once a Thief
Once a Thief (TV series)
Once a Thief was a 1997 Canadian television show inspired by the 1996 film of the same name.-Premise:...
|| Li Ann Tsei ||22 episodes
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1997 || New York Undercover
New York Undercover
New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the FOX television network from 1994 to 1998. The series starred Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's 4th Precinct who were assigned to...
|| Julie Chin ||2 episodes
|-
|Two
Two (TV Series)
Two was a short-lived drama series which aired in 1996 and 1997. It featured Michael Easton as Gus McClain, a man framed for the murder of his wife by his twin brother Booth Hubbard . Hubbard, whose existence had previously been unknown to McClain, committed several murders while assuming...
|| Diana Polasky || episode "Tale of the Tape"
|-
|1998 || The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)
The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...
|| Jade/Laura || episode "Last Supper"
|-
|2001 || Witchblade
Witchblade (TV series)
Following a pilot film in August 2000, the cable network TNT premiered a Witchblade television series based on the Witchblade Top Cow Productions comic book series in 2001. Some of the episodes were written by Ralph Hemecker, Marc Silvestri and J.D...
|| Sandrine Malraux/TV News Reporter || episodes "Legion" and "Parallax"
|-
|2002 || Mutant X
Mutant X (TV series)
Mutant X is a science fiction television series that debuted on October 6, 2001. The show was created by Marvel Studios, and it centers around Mutant X, a team of "New Mutants" who possess extraordinary powers as a result of genetic engineering. The members of Mutant X were used as test subjects...
|| Patricia || episode "The Future Revealed"
|-
|rowspan="3" | 2005 || CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
|| Melissa Boone || episode "Sex & Taxes"
|-
|Las Vegas
Las Vegas (TV series)
Las Vegas was an American television series broadcast by NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working at the ficticional Montecito Resort & Casino dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and...
|| Detective Jenny Cho || 3 episodes
|-
|ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
|| Drew || episode "Nobody's Baby"
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2006 || 24
24 (TV series)
24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...
|| Evelyn Martin ||10 episodes
|-
|Runaway || Erin Baxter || 5 episodes
|-
|2007 || The L Word
The L Word
The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood...
|| Catherine Rothberg || 5 episodes
|-
| 2008 ||Burn Up || Mika Namuvai || TV miniseries
|-
|2009 ||Bored to Death
Bored to Death
Bored to Death is an American comedy series, which premiered on HBO on September 20, 2009. , three seasons have aired, each consisting of eight episodes. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames – a writer based in Brooklyn, New York...
||Niko Oh|| episode "Stockholm Syndrome"
|-
|rowspan="2"|2010||The Mentalist
The Mentalist
The Mentalist is an American police procedural television series which debuted on September 23, 2008, on CBS. The show was created by Bruno Heller, who is also the show's executive producer...
||Elise Chaye|| episode "Blood in, Blood Out"
|-
|The Line||Rachel||episode "Pilot"
|-
|2011 ||Sanctuary ||Charlotte Benoit|| episode "Monsoon"
|-
|}
Awards and nominations
- Genie Awards, 1991, Nominated for Black RobeBlack Robe (film)Black Robe is a 1991 film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay was written by Northern Irish-Canadian author Brian Moore, who adapted it from his novel of the same name....
, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.