Zoie Palmer

Zoie Palmer

Born: October 28, 1977
in Calne, Wiltshire, England, UK
Zoie Palmer (born 28 October 1977) is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Dr. Lauren Lewis in the Showcase supernatural drama Lost Girl and as the Android in the SyFy science fiction series Dark Matter.

Palmer was born in Camborne, Cornwall, England, to parents of Irish and British descent. She emigrated to Canada with her family when she was ten. She attended Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Newmarket, Ontario, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University in Toronto in 2001. She had her first professional acting role as a teenager, in summer stock at the Red Barn Theatre in Jackson's Point, Ontario.

After graduating from York University, Palmer began working in theatre in Toronto. She appeared in productions of The Crucible, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Vagina Monologues. She also had guest-starring roles on several television series, including The Border, Smallville, and The Listener.

In 2010, Palmer was cast as Dr. Lauren Lewis in Lost Girl. The series ran for five seasons and was a critical and commercial success. Palmer's performance as Lauren was praised by critics and fans alike. She won several awards for her work on the show, including a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

In 2015, Palmer was cast as the Android in Dark Matter. The series ran for three seasons and was cancelled in 2017. Palmer's performance as the Android was also praised by critics and fans alike. She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her work on the show.

In addition to her work on television, Palmer has also appeared in several films. She starred in the 2012 independent film Cold Blooded, for which she won a Gold Medallion Acting Award for Best Actress at the BareBones International Film Festival. She also had roles in the films The Reagans, Out of the Ashes, and Devil's Perch.

Movies for Zoie Palmer...

Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Title: Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Character: Kara Boswick
Released: May 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
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Title: Pretty Hard Cases
Character: Jenn
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: TV
A fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s following Guns and Gangs detective Sam and Narcotics detective Kelly, who by day are true action heroes in their own particular way: skilled, tough, determined, and ruthless. But by night, they’re both grappling with loneliness, dysfunctional families, screwed-up love lives, and a sense that their professional ambitions may not be totally in line with their personal needs.
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Glass Houses
Title: Glass Houses
Character: Anna Dawson
Released: January 9, 2020
Type: Movie
Teenage babysitter Carrie Dawson has a chip on her shoulder on the heels of a humiliating family scandal. When she finds out that neighborhood Queen Bee Madeline Cooper may be to blame, she is determined to exact revenge - even if it means discovering and exposing Madeline's own scandalous secret. As Carrie gets closer to the truth, will Madeline's world come tumbling down?
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Title: Jann
Character: Max
Released: March 20, 2019
Type: TV
In Jann, Jann Arden plays a fictionalized, self-deprecating version of herself: a singer songwriter of a “certain age” in severe denial of the harsh reality that her former music career is slowly (okay rapidly) fading away. But it’s not just Jann’s career that’s on life support – she’s newly single (don’t remind her), her sister may disown her, and her mother may be showing early signs of memory loss. Jann's personal life is in shambles and she's convinced that the cure-all is to enlist a new manager to help rebrand her image. Filled with plenty of LOL moments, she embarks on a quest to return to greatness and go viral, but instead gets tangled in the pressures of her ‘real’ life. Jann is at the crossroads between who she was and who she wants to be. Can Jann stage a comeback, reclaim fame…and be there for the people who love her?
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Title: Hudson & Rex
Character: Wendy Larson
Released: February 25, 2019
Type: TV
Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.
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Deerbrook
Title: Deerbrook
Character: Tammy
Released: November 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Two strangers show up at a family's cottage claiming to have spent their childhood summers there, but their behaviour seems to be driven by something more sinister than nostalgia.
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Title: Taken
Character: Meg
Released: February 27, 2017
Type: TV
The origin story of younger, hungrier, former Green Beret Bryan Mills as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular, and very dangerous, set of skills.
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Title: Pure
Character: Valerie Krochack
Released: January 9, 2017
Type: TV
A newly-elected Mennonite pastor, who is determined to rid his community of drug traffickers. But Noah's actions trigger an ultimatum from "Menno mob" leader Eli Voss.
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Title: Ransom
Character: Jasmine Bradshaw
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: TV
Eric Beaumont's crisis negotiator team is brought in to save lives and resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases when no one else can.
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Title: Private Eyes
Character: Nicola Hawthorne
Released: May 26, 2016
Type: TV
Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.
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Title: Wynonna Earp
Character: Jolene
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: TV
Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter Wynonna battles demons and other creatures with her unique abilities and a posse of dysfunctional allies - the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.
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Title: Real Detective
Character: Detective Leigh Maroni
Released: January 7, 2016
Type: TV
With narrative driven exclusively by the detectives themselves, each episode ventures deep into the mind of a homicide detective as they describe in vivid detail the one case forever ingrained in their memory.
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Title: Dark Matter
Character: The Android
Released: June 12, 2015
Type: TV
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?
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Patch Town
Title: Patch Town
Character: Bethany
Released: January 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Patch Town, inspired by the award-winning short film of the same name. After years in a loving home, Jon, a toy, was forgotten, deserted and ultimately betrayed by his adoptive mother. He returns to live a sad life as a worker on the line; a life of factory work and oppression in a place where hundreds of cabbage babies are born every day. The thankless task of shucking, picking, and processing these newborns to go out into the world and to their new mothers has taken its toll on Jon. With each new birth, Jon slips deeper into sadness, lamenting the days when life was good and he was loved.
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Her Husband's Betrayal
Title: Her Husband's Betrayal
Character: Tora Weeks
Released: August 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Cathy Coulter is looking forward to a bright future with new husband Riley and her son Billy. Settled in their new home, Cathy becomes disheartened with Riley's frequent work trips and her intuition tells her something is amiss. When Riley leaves for his next job, Cathy follows him...all the way to another family's home! When Cathy storms in to confront him, she finds a dead body and receives a call from Riley saying she must confess to the crime or her son will be killed. With the police hot on her tail, Cathy goes on the run to unearth the truth before it is too late to save her son.
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Sex After Kids
Title: Sex After Kids
Character: Lou
Released: January 26, 2013
Type: Movie
A disparate variety of couples from all walks of life strive to maintain active sex lives despite the notable distraction of having kids.
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Cold Blooded
Title: Cold Blooded
Character: Frances Jane
Released: July 31, 2012
Type: Movie
A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.
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The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard
Title: The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard
Character: Haley
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
A documentary filmmaker turns the camera on himself to examine the modern day relationship using his own past to guide him.
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Title: XIII: The Series
Character: Moira
Released: April 18, 2011
Type: TV
After a plot to kill the president of the USA an agent with lost memories tries to recover his life and memories. Others use him to cover up some dirty business involving high ranking officials from the CIA and the White House.
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Title: King
Character: Angela Gilbert
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
King is a Canadian police drama which premiered April 17, 2011 on Showcase. The series stars Amy Price-Francis as Jessica King, a veteran police officer who gets promoted to head of the Major Crimes Task Force in Toronto after her predecessor has a breakdown on television. Season 2 began production in September 2011 and premiered 29 February 2012. On June 2, 2012, it was reported that King had been cancelled after 2 seasons.
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Title: Call Me Fitz
Character: Laura
Released: September 19, 2010
Type: TV
A morally bankrupt car salesman is forced to become business partners with his inner conscience, an off-beat do gooder intent on healing Fitz's mangled psyche, one hilarious disaster at a time.
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Devil
Title: Devil
Character: Cheryl
Released: September 16, 2010
Type: Movie
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
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Title: Lost Girl
Character: Lauren
Released: September 12, 2010
Type: TV
The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.
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Title: Nikita
Character: Anya Vimer
Released: September 9, 2010
Type: TV
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
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Title: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Character: Female Cop
Released: January 10, 2010
Type: TV
Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
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Title: The Listener
Character: Staff Sgt. McCoy
Released: June 4, 2009
Type: TV
Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.
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Title: Flashpoint
Character: Jordana Hauser
Released: July 11, 2008
Type: TV
The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.
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Title: Murdoch Mysteries
Character: Katie Powers
Released: January 24, 2008
Type: TV
A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
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Title: The Guard
Character: Carly Greig
Released: January 22, 2008
Type: TV
This one hour drama follows the search and rescue (SAR) team of the Canadian Coast Guard. The crew of the MLB Cape Pacific is lead by Captain Miro DaSilva and its First Mate Laura Nelson. The crew is rounded out by Coast guard rescue swimmers Andrew Vanderlee and Carly Greig.
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Gospel of Deceit
Title: Gospel of Deceit
Character: Tracy Duggins
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Emily, a preacher's wife, is as faithful a spouse as they come — until her hubby, Ted, takes in a handsome drifter who's down on his luck. (Red flag!) Emily finds herself drawn to this sexy wanderer, and it doesn't take long for the pair to begin a steamy affair — right under unsuspecting Ted's nose. When a guilt-ridden Emily eventually tries to call it quits, the real drama begins!
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Title: Instant Star
Character: Patsy Sewer
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: TV
When Jude Harrison enters G Major’s singer/songwriter contest, she knows her stuff will kill, but she’s shocked when she learns she won the whole darn thing! Now, with a recording contract, a soon-to-be released single and a mega-crush on her producer, Jude’s wading through a world bigger than her wildest rock n’ roll dreams. Thrust into the spotlight, Jude is desperate to prove she belongs there…but she’s not even old enough to drive.
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Godsend
Title: Godsend
Character: Susan Pierce
Released: April 30, 2004
Type: Movie
A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.
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The Reagans
Title: The Reagans
Character: Patty Reagan
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: Movie
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in Hollywood, through his governorship of California until Reagan's last day in office as President in 1989.
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Terminal Venus
Title: Terminal Venus
Character: Annabelle H.
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Terminal cancer patient Annabelle H. learns from other women patients about the physically altering effects of chemotherapy and escapes the hospital for one last night of passion.
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Title: Missing
Character: Tracy Somers
Released: August 2, 2003
Type: TV
Jess Mastriani was a normal person who only wanted to take over her parents' restaurant in Indiana. But that changed when she was hit by lightning. After that she began seeing visions of missing people. Jess decides to use her newfound ability to be a consultant to the FBI, helping locate missing individuals. Eventually, she is hired by the bureau full-time and trained to become an agent, but her by-the-book nature sometimes clashes with the personality of her partner. Jess and her colleagues work out of the FBI's Washington, D.C., office.
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Out of the Ashes
Title: Out of the Ashes
Character: Didi Goldstein
Released: April 13, 2003
Type: Movie
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
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The Scream Team
Title: The Scream Team
Character: Rebecca Kull
Released: October 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
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Title: Adventure Inc.
Character: Luisa
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: TV
From his base in the Florida Keys, Judson Cross has assembled a team of young renegades, each with their own extraordinary skills and willing to risk it all for the love of adventure.
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Title: Odyssey 5
Character: Researcher
Released: June 21, 2002
Type: TV
Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada. Odyssey 5 is the brainchild of Manny Coto, who served as a script-writer and executive producer during the series run. Through his website and in interviews, Coto has expressed his interest in returning to the series at some point, either continuing it or giving it a conclusion.
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Title: Bliss
Character: Donna
Released: March 21, 2002
Type: TV
Bliss is a Canadian produced, half hour dramatic television series, produced by Montreal-based Galafilm and Toronto-based Back Alley Films, an anthology of women's erotica. The series ran from 2002 to 2004. The format of the show—short, sensual vignettes adapted for television—aired on Oxygen in the United States and Showcase, TMN and Movie Central in Canada. The series is distributed by Oasis International in Toronto.
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Title: Degrassi
Character: Officer
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: TV
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
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Title: Doc
Character: Tracey Briant
Released: March 11, 2001
Type: TV
Doc is a medical drama/family drama with strong Christian undertones starring Billy Ray Cyrus as Dr. Clint "Doc" Cassidy, a Montana doctor who takes a job in a New York City medical clinic. It ran from March 11, 2001 to November 28, 2004 on PAX. Although set in New York City, all the episodes were shot in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada.