Erin Karpluk Movies and Career Information

Erin Karpluk (born 17 October 1978) is a Canadian television actress. She is best known for her leading roles in Godiva's and Being Erica. She has also appeared on The CW's Life Unexpected. Born in Jasper, Alberta of Ukrainian descent, to a high school principal mother and a father who worked for the railway, she studied theatre at the University of Victoria receiving a bachelor's degree of fine arts in theatre in 2000. She began her acting career in Vancouver and between 2000 and 2005 she appeared in more than a dozen television series and TV movies before landing the role of Kate in Godiva's. Her work during this period included "Voice of Sylan" in the final episode of Dark Angel and the TV movie Family Sins. She was in Legend of Earthsea (2004) and she played a serial killer in Ripper 2: Letter from Within (also 2004). She was also in a short-lived US television series called Glory Days (2002). Karpluk earned a Leo nomination for her first season of Godiva's and a 2006 Gemini nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. In 2009, she won the Gemini award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her role