Stana Katic

A multilingual, Canada-born up-and-comer, this athletic beauty is skilled at playing mysterious, exotically named and accented characters. In the '00s, Katic worked steadily in a slew of TV guest spots, putting in brief appearances on action series such as Alias and 24 before landing her highest profile role to date as a vengeful, motorcycle-riding warrior on Heroes. Blessed/cursed as a human transmitter and receiver capable of intercepting all kinds of electronic signals, Katic's imposing alter ego was also a whiz with firearms.Stana Katic Fast Facts:

• First TV role was in a 2004 episode of CBS' short-lived FBI drama The Handler.
• Fluent in numerous languages including Bosnian, Croatian, French, Italian, Serbian and Slovenian.
• Trained in Isshinryu Karate, stage and film combat, and belly dancing.

• College:
• Attended DePaul University, The Theatre School, Chicago, IL