Tracy Spiridakos

Tracy Spiridakos, a Canadian actress from Canada. She played Becky Richards on the Teletoon children's comedy series Majority Rules! from 2009-2010. Then she starred as Charlotte "Charlie" Matheson in the NBC post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Revolution from 2012-2014, for which she received an Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. Annika Johnson was her character on the A&E television drama Bates Motel. Spiridakos was a part of the cast as Detective Hailey Upton on the television show Bates from A&E. Motel. playing Detective Hailey Upton. Spiridakos was brought up in Winnipeg, Manitoba by George Spiridakos and Anastasia Spiridakos, Greek-born restaurant owners. She has two brothers. When she was born her family relocated to Skala, Greece, south of Sparta. They returned to Canada in 1992. She strongly identifies with her Greek family and speaks fluent Greek. Spiridakos began acting at junior high school. She later attended the Actors Training Centre of Manitoba. In 2000, she graduated from Oak Park High School in Winnipeg. Spiridakos moved to Vancouver in 2007 to pursue acting. She landed her first TV gig within a few days, a small role on Supernatural. She was a television actress for several more years and was offered roles in Psych, The L Word, Hellcats and Bionic Woman. Spiridakos appeared in the TV movie Goblin, and the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy. She also played a recurring part on Being Human as werewolf Brynn McLean.In 2009, she won her first leading role in the Canadian Teletoon series Majority Rules!, playing 15-year-old Becky Richards. She made her feature film debut in the year 2011 by starring in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and filmed the low-budget Michael Greenspan-helmed thriller, Kill for Me, starring across from Donal Logue and Katie Cassidy. Spiridakos played the role of Sammi in Rags (2012) which was a Nickelodeon original movie. Spiridakos was later offered the leading role in Revolution, as Charlotte Matheson (survivor in a dystopian society) in NBC television. She auditioned while she was taking part in her pilot season in Los Angeles. Spiridakos shot the pilot in Atlanta, and filmed the first season in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her performance on the first season of the series was nominated her for a Saturn Award as Best Actress on TV. But, she fell to the Fringe's Anna Tov. The series' second season was filming in Austin, Texas.