Athena Karkanis

Canadian television actress

Athena Karkanis
Born	(1981-09-07) September 7, 1981 (age 42) Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Children	2^[1]

Athena Karkanis (born September 7, 1981) is a Canadian television, film and voice actress. She is noted for her role as Grace Stone in the NBC/Netflix science fiction drama series Manifest, as well as the voice of Anne Maria in Total Drama.

Life and career

Karkanis was born in Alberta^[2] and raised in Toronto.^[3] She is of Greek and Egyptian descent.^[3]^[4] In 2005, she made her screen debut in an episode of 1-800-Missing and later had a number of guest-starring, recurring and regular roles on Canadian television shows. She also had regular voice roles in Skyland, MetaJets, Julius Jr., Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Dino Ranch and My Little Pony: Make Your Mark. She has a regular voice role in Wild Kratts as Aviva Corcovado. Karkanis was also the lead voice for the title character in Growing Up Creepie.

Karkanis co-starred in several horror films, including Saw IV (2007), Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), Saw VI (2009), Survival of the Dead (2009), and The Barrens (2012). She also appeared in direct-to-video action films The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008), and Sacrifice (2011). On television, she was a regular cast member in the first season of Canadian teen drama The Best Years in 2007, in The Border from 2008 to 2010, and in the short-lived comedy series Almost Heroes in 2011. She also had a recurring role in Lost Girl from 2011 to 2012.

Karkanis starred in the AMC drama series Low Winter Sun in 2013. In 2014, she was cast as a series regular in the Lifetime post-apocalyptic drama series, The Lottery.^[5] In 2015, she began playing the role of Octavia Muss on The Expanse. From 2018 to 2022, Karkanis played Grace Stone on the TV series Manifest on NBC (seasons 1–3) and on Netflix (seasons 1-4).

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie	Harmony Bear	Voice, direct-to-video^[6]
2007	Saw IV	Agent Lindsey Perez
2008	The Art of War II: Betrayal	Heather	Direct-to-video
	Saw V	Agent Lindsey Perez	Archive footage
	Repo! The Genetic Opera	Female Repo Victim
	Tomboy	Alex	Short film
2009	Survival of the Dead	Tomboy
2009	Saw VI	Agent Lindsey Perez
2011	Sacrifice	Rachel
2012	The Barrens	Erica
2013	Foxed!	Emily	Short film
2013	Subconscious Password	The Babysitter	Voice, short film
2016	Spark	Koko	Voice^[6]
2019	Break In Break Out	Tamara	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996–98	Stickin' Around	Various	Recurring voice role
2003	Chappelle's Show	Educated Guess Announcer	Voice, 1 episode
2004	Kevin Hill	Annalisa / Lina	2 episodes
2005	Missing	Tamara Corday	Episode: "Phoenix Rising"
	Kojak	Gabriella Bustar	Episode: "East Sixties"
	Delilah and Julius	Zoe Ling	7 episodes
2006–07	Skyland	Diwan	Voice, main role (27 episodes)^[6]
2006–08	Growing Up Creepie	Creepella "Creepie" Creecher / Various	Voice, main role (26 episodes)^[6]
2007	The Best Years	Dawn Vargaz	Main role; 13 episodes
2008–10	The Border	Agent Khalida "Khali" Massi / Salah Karim	12 episodes
2009	Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist	Bream	Voice, episode: "A Fish Tale"
	Nerdland	Patty	Voice, television film
	Guns	Ines Mendoza	Television miniseries
	U.S. Attorney	Marlene Rodriguez	Television film
	The Dating Guy	Diana	Voice, episode: "Captain Petard"
	Too Late to Say Goodbye	Liz	Television film
2009–2011	Producing Parker	Sally, Mimi Chiu, Latino Lesbian	Voice, 3 episodes^[6]
2010	Dex Hamilton: Fire and Ice	Herman / Computer voice	Television film
	Degrassi: The Next Generation	Rachel	Episode: "Don't Let Me Get Me: Part 1"
	Sundays at Tiffany's	Talk Show Host	Television film
2011	Republic of Doyle	Heather Smith	Episode: "Live and Let Doyle"
	InSecurity	Paloma	Episode: "El Negotiator"
	XIII: The Series	Maria Cardenas	Episode: "Costa Verde"
	Covert Affairs	Shireen	Episode: "Bang and Blame"
	Almost Heroes	Rayna	8 episodes
	MetaJets	Flygirl	Main voice role
	The Ron James Show	Nurse	Voice, 3 episodes
	Certain Prey	Marcy Sherrill	Television film
2011–12	Conquer the Kairu		Voice, 15 episodes
2011–12	Lost Girl	Nadia	7 episodes
2011–present	Wild Kratts	Aviva Corcovado, Nua	Main voice role^[6]
2012	Total Drama: Revenge of the Island	Anne Maria	Voice, 8 episodes
	Detentionaire	Kimmie McAdams	Voice, episode: "The Candidate"
	Supernatural	Andrea Kormos	Episode: "Blood Brother"
	Transporter: The Series	Mauga	2 episodes
	Murdoch Mysteries	Dr. Iris Bajjali	Episode: "Evil Eye of Egypt"
	The Firm	Wendy	Episode: "Chapter 20"
2013	The Listener	Crown Prosecutor Krista Ellis	Episode: "Witness for the Prosecution"
	Low Winter Sun	Dani Khalil	Main role (10 episodes)
	Skatoony	Anne Maria	Episode: "Style Trial"
2013–14	Julius Jr.	Sheree, Sidney, additional voices	Voice, 51 episodes^[6]
2014	Remedy	Gwen Devoe	Episode: "The Beast Within"
2014	The Lottery	Vanessa Keller	10 episodes
2015	Murdoch Mysteries	Dr. Iris Bajjali	Episode: "Murdoch and the Temple of Death"
2015	Young Drunk Punk	Gayle	Episode: "European Style"
2015–16	The Expanse	Octavia Muss	7 episodes
2016	Poor Richard's Almanack	Penny Richards	Unsold television pilot
	Fugget About It	Anna	Voice, episode: "Spicy Apocalypse"^[6]
	Looped	Claire	Voice, 5 episodes^[6]
2017	Mysticons	Imani Firewing, Quasarla, Lateensia	Voice, recurring role^[6]
	Suits	Marissa	2 episodes
	Zoo	Abigail Westbrook	12 episodes
2018–23	Manifest	Grace Stone	Main role (43 episodes)
2018	House of Cards	Melody Cruz	5 episodes
2019	Corn & Peg	Miss Rider	1 episode
2021–present	Dino Ranch	Jane, Tango^[6]	Main voice role
2022–23	My Little Pony: Make Your Mark	Opaline Arcana	Main voice role
2023–present	Work It Out Wombats!	Kat	Voice, 9 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2005	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas	Joanna Torres	^[6]
2010	World of Warcraft: Cataclysm	Gilnean NPC
2011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Jedi Consular Female	^[6]
2012	Diablo III	Barbarian - Female	^[6]
2012	World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria	Aysa Cloudsinger, Lu'lin, Ki
2013	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Rise of the Hutt Cartel	Jedi Consular Female
2014	Diablo III: Reaper of Souls	Barbarian - Female	^[6]
	World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Shadow of Revan	Jedi Consular Female
2015	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire	Jedi Consular Female
2015	Heroes of the Storm	Sonya
2016	Maize	Ruby Queen	^[6]
	Far Cry Primal
	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Eternal Throne	Jedi Consular Female
2019	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Onslaught
2022	Star Wars: The Old Republic - Legacy of the Sith
2022	My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure	Zoom Zephyrwing	^[6]

References

^ "Athena Karkanis on Instagram: "Went to the ballet today with my two favourite people. It was amazing to watch a live performance again with a theatre full of arts lovers. As the lights went down and the curtain came up on the beautiful dancers of this incredible company. I found myself overcome with emotion, thinking about how momentous this return to the stage is. As a performer (Who's first many years of her career were on the stage) and as a lover of theatre and dance, I felt so happy and grateful to be there and to be sharing it with my children. Thank you @nationalballet in the words of my four year old… " that was the beautifulest thing in the whole wide world " #angelsatlasnbc"".
^ Wassenberg, Anya (September 17, 2009). "Art & Culture Maven: TIFF Interview with Athena Karkanis of George Romero's Survival of the Dead". Artandculturemaven.com. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Yianilos, Laurel (January 16, 2010). "Crossing Borders is a full time job for this Greek-Canadian Actress". Hollywood.GreekReporter.com. Archived from the original on August 29, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
^ Stokeley, Matthew (August 2013). "Q&A – Athena Karkanis (Dani Khalil)". AMC. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
^ "'The Lottery', 'Witches Of East End' Add Cast". Deadline. May 19, 2014. Archived from the original on June 18, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q "Athena Karkanis (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved August 7, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.