Kari Matchett
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| Kari Matchett | |
| Born | March 25, 1970 Spalding, Saskatchewan |
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Kari Matchett (born March 25, 1970 in Spalding, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian actress in television and film. She is probably best known for her role as Mariel Underlay on the cult TV series Invasion.
[edit] Early years
Matchett attended high school at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute (LCI) in Lethbridge, Alberta. She later studied at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec and the Moscow Theatre School.
Matchett performed on stage for three years in Stratford.
[edit] Career
In Canada her first major role was on The Rez and her first starring role was as Colleen Blessed in Power Play (1998–2000). Matchett was a key member of the repertory cast of the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), in which she played numerous femmes fatale and had a recurring role as Lily Rowan. On the short-lived but highly reviewed show Wonderfalls, she played the character 'Beth', the lesbian love interest of the main character's sister, 'Sharon Tyler'.
Her next major role was as Detective Elaine Bender in Blue Murder in 2004. Unrelated to her character in 2004, she guest starred on an episode of the same TV show (Blue Murder) as a suspect in a murder investigation in 2001.
In 2005 she had a starring role in the short-lived ABC TV series, Invasion, a series about aliens taking the form of humans. She has also appeared as Mary Tate on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and in both Shark and Wild Card.
In 2007 she joined the cast of 24, as Lisa Miller, assistant to Powers Boothe's Vice President Noah Daniels who steps in as Acting President when an attempt is made on the life of the president. In June of 2007, the TNT Series Heartland debuted with Kari playing the role of Kate Armstrong, and in November 2007, Matchett appeared on the American television program ER, playing a new attending physician, Skye Wexler. She played a single mother stalked by her boyfriend in "Intimate Stranger" a made for tV movie in 2006.
Her most notable film role was in a 2002 film about curling entitled Men with Brooms.
[edit] References
- Kari Matchett at the Internet Movie Database
- Kari Matchett at Northern Stars
- Maclean's July 22, 2005 - Article on Kari Matchett and Invasion.
- ABC Network - Show profile for Invasion, which includes Kari Matchett.
