Stana Katic

Stana Katic

Born: April 26, 1978
in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Stana Katic is a Canadian actress and producer. She is best known for her roles as Kate Beckett on the ABC television series Castle (2009–2016) and FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne in the Amazon Prime Video series Absentia (2017–2020).

Katic was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, to Serb parents Petar and Rada Katic, who emigrated from Croatia. She has four brothers and one sister. Katic began her acting career in theater, appearing in productions at the Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. She later attended the University of Toronto and the DePaul University Goodman School of Drama.

After graduating from DePaul University, Katic began her television career with guest appearances on several series, including 24, The Closer, and CSI: NY. She also had a recurring role on the HBO series Damages. In 2009, she was cast as Kate Beckett on the ABC series Castle. The series was a critical and commercial success, running for eight seasons. Katic's performance as Beckett earned her several awards, including a People's Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic TV Actress and a Shorty Award for Best Actress.

In 2017, Katic starred in the Amazon Prime Video series Absentia. The series follows FBI Special Agent Emily Byrne, who returns to work after disappearing for six years. Katic's performance as Byrne earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Katic is also a producer. She co-founded the production company Katic Productions in 2013. The company has produced several short films and television pilots.

Movies for Stana Katic...

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
Title: Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
Character: Wonder Woman (voice)
Released: April 22, 2024
Type: Movie
An endless army of shadow demons bent on the destruction of all reality swarms over our world and all parallel Earths! The only thing opposing them is the mightiest team of metahumans ever assembled. But not even the combined power of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and all their fellow superheroes can slow down the onslaught of this invincible horde. What mysterious force is driving them? And how do the long-buried secrets of the Monitor and Supergirl threaten to crush our last defense?
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
Title: Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
Character: Wonder Woman / Superwoman (voice)
Released: January 8, 2024
Type: Movie
Death is coming. Worse than death: oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere, in every universe! Against this ultimate destruction, the mysterious Monitor has gathered the greatest team of Super Heroes ever assembled. But what can the combined might of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern and hundreds of Super Heroes from multiple Earths even do to save all of reality from an unstoppable antimatter armageddon?!
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Justice League: Warworld
Title: Justice League: Warworld
Character: Wonder Woman / Diana Prince (voice)
Released: July 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Until now, the Justice League has been a loose association of superpowered individuals. But when they are swept away to Warworld, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the others must somehow unite to form an unbeatable resistance able to lead an entire planet to freedom.
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Justice Society: World War II
Title: Justice Society: World War II
Character: Wonder Woman / Diana Prince (voice)
Released: April 27, 2021
Type: Movie
When the Flash finds himself dropped into the middle of World War II, he joins forces with Wonder Woman and her top-secret team known as the Justice Society of America.
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A Call to Spy
Title: A Call to Spy
Character: Vera Atkins
Released: October 2, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
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The Possession of Hannah Grace
Title: The Possession of Hannah Grace
Character: Lisa Roberts / Nurse
Released: November 29, 2018
Type: Movie
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
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Title: Absentia
Character: Emily Byrne
Released: September 25, 2017
Type: TV
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
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Lost in Florence
Title: Lost in Florence
Character: Anna
Released: January 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Eric Lazard is a heartbroken former college football star who gets involved in a dangerous Florentine sport and a local woman, Stephanie, while visiting his cousin Anna, who lives in Italy and teaches the Italian language to foreigners.
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The Rendezvous
Title: The Rendezvous
Character: Rachel Rozman
Released: October 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A miss-matched couple embark on a frantic search for the Dead Sea Scroll hidden in the ancient city of Petra.
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Sister Cities
Title: Sister Cities
Character: Carolina "Carol" Baxter Shaw
Released: September 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.
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Big Sur
Title: Big Sur
Character: Lenora
Released: November 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
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CBGB
Title: CBGB
Character: Genya Ravan
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A look at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
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How We Made Love: The Making of For Lovers Only
Title: How We Made Love: The Making of For Lovers Only
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A short documentary on the making of "For Lovers Only" (2011).
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Superman: Unbound
Title: Superman: Unbound
Character: Lois Lane (voice)
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Superman and Supergirl take on the cybernetic being known as Brainiac, who boasts that he possesses "the knowledge and strength of 10,000 worlds."
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The Double
Title: The Double
Character: Amber
Released: October 27, 2011
Type: Movie
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced.
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For Lovers Only
Title: For Lovers Only
Character: Sofia
Released: July 12, 2011
Type: Movie
An American photographer runs into an old flame while on assignment in Paris.
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Truth About Kerry
Title: Truth About Kerry
Character: Emma
Released: October 16, 2010
Type: Movie
A young American woman is found dead on a beach in Ireland under mysterious circumstances. Her best friend, refusing to believe it was an accident, travels to the remote fishing village to investigate what really happened to her.
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Title: Castle
Character: Kate Beckett
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: TV
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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The Spirit
Title: The Spirit
Character: Morgenstern
Released: December 25, 2008
Type: Movie
A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus, who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face, has other plans; he is going to wipe out the entire city.
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Quantum of Solace
Title: Quantum of Solace
Character: Corinne Veneau
Released: October 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
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The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
Title: The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice
Character: Simone Renoir
Released: October 25, 2008
Type: Movie
While on a dangerous mission to recover the historic Judas Chalice, Flynn is saved by Simone. But when double-crossed by a respected professor and ambushed by a ruthless gang, Flynn realizes Simone's secret, his true mission and a shocking discovery are all lying within a decaying New Orleans crypt.
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Would Be Kings
Title: Would Be Kings
Character: Julianna Martinelli
Released: August 27, 2008
Type: Movie
Best friends Patrick (Currie Graham) and Jamie (Ben Bass) are also cousins and cops determined to keep the streets safe and provide for their families. Their relationship suffers when they become entangled in a dangerous mix of mobsters, corruption, drugs and murder. As Jamie's boss, Patrick often has to cover for him, but their roles are reversed when Patrick falls in with the wrong people. Natasha Henstridge co-stars as Patrick's wife.
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Stiletto
Title: Stiletto
Character: Raina
Released: April 29, 2008
Type: Movie
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
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Feast of Love
Title: Feast of Love
Character: Jenny
Released: September 28, 2007
Type: Movie
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
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Title: Heroes
Character: Hana Gitelman
Released: September 25, 2006
Type: TV
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
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Title: Brothers and Sisters
Character: Karen Wells
Released: September 24, 2006
Type: TV
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs.
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Dragon Dynasty
Title: Dragon Dynasty
Character: Ava
Released: July 22, 2006
Type: Movie
A group of European explorers returning from China battle a pair of dragons sent by an evil wizard intent on keeping his land a secret.
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Title: Faceless
Character: Diana Palos
Released: March 22, 2006
Type: TV
Federal Prosecutor John Robson lives in Sherman Oaks with his young family. He is driven, brilliant and intuitive. Robson is fiercely certain that there is a link between all the crime factions in L.A., and that there is one overlord whose capture will topple them all. Despite losing support from the FBI, despite the nagging doubt of his assistant prosecutor, Diana Palos, and despite the mounting pressure from his wife to spend more time with their family, Robson won't back down from his conviction and set the wheels in motion, not for the first time, to try to get to the top via one of the middlemen, Lucas Reynosa. Before he can close the deal with Reynosa, however, Robson is brutally beaten, shot in the head, thrown into the river and left for dead - but manages to reach a phone for help and winds up in a hospital, where, after being in a coma for three months and learning that his family has been killed, he emerges, a new man with an old agenda: Eddie Pray.
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Title: The Unit
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: TV
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
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Pit Fighter
Title: Pit Fighter
Character: Marianne
Released: July 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Jack Severino has no memory, all he knows is the brutal sport of Pit Fighting. When his past catches him up, he realizes he is not who he thought he was. For some men must fight for redemption.
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Title: The Closer
Character: Nadia Orwell
Released: June 13, 2005
Type: TV
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
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Title: The Handler
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: TV
The Handler is a crime series created by Canadian writer-producer Chris Haddock, airing in the United States on CBS in the 2003-04 season. The show starred Joe Pantoliano as Joe Renato, an FBI agent assigned to train and handle young undercover officers in the FBI. Other cast members included Hill Harper, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, and Tanya Wright. Belknap and Harper would reunite as costars on the drama CSI: New York beginning in 2005.
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Shut-Eye
Title: Shut-Eye
Character: Angela
Released: January 15, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: CSI: Miami
Released: September 23, 2002
Type: TV
CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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Title: The Shield
Character: Ayla
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: TV
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
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Title: 24
Character: Collette Stenger
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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Title: Alias
Character: Flight Attendant
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
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Title: ER
Character: Blaire Collins
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.