BIO
Kari Matchett was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan and grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School, she also studied Chekov at the Moscow Theatre School as an exchange student and attended Red Deer College where she got her start in summer stock.
When Kari landed a guest role in Once A Thief, Bill Laurin (one of the co-executive producers of OAT) invited her to audition for a small part in his next series, Power Play. What she got was the part of Colleen Blessed, the female lead. "It shows how one thing can lead to another," says Matchett, whose career has included a season at Stratford and TV movies including "Marriage of Convenience", "Undue Influence" and the CTV Mystery "A Colder Kind of Death".
Her television credits include the recurring roles of Siobhan Beckett in Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, Tanya in The Rez, Sheila in Ready or Not, and Beth in FOX's Wonderfalls. She's also had guest starring roles on Viper, Poltergeist, Psi Factor and Forever Knight, among others.
Kari was a regular performer on the A&E series Nero Wolfe and co-starred in "Men With Brooms", a film about curling written by Paul Gross and John Krizanc. Kari's latest roles are as Kate Filmore in Hypercube, a sequel to the cult hit Cube. Her co-stars include Geraint Wyn Davies, and Power Play's Neil Crone. She also portrayed Diane Thursby, Jeremy Northam's wife, in Cypher, a thriller about a bored accountant who enters a nightmare world while moonlighting as a corporate spy, and played opposite Chevy Chase in The Great Goose Caper filmed in Calgary.
In 2001, Kari won her first Gemini Award for her guest appearance on Blue Murder. She received her first nomination in 2000 for Power Play.
You can look for Kari Matchett as Detective Jimmy Weeks' new partner, Elaine Bender, in the last season of Blue Murder, and in Invasion, a new sci-fi series debuting this fall on ABC.
* The above is a compilation of facts pulled from
various sources on the Internet, I cannot guarantee their accuracy.
