NBC Lady’s Tracy Spiridakos
Tracy Spiridakos is a Greek-Canadian actress who stars as Charlotte “Charlie” Matheson in the NBC post-apocalyptic science fiction series Revolution.Spiridakos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Greek-born parents, George and Anastasia Spiridakos, who are restaurant owners. She has two brothers. The family moved to the Greek village Skala, near Sparta, when she was four, and returned to Canada when she was nine. She strongly identifies with her Greek heritage.
In the event of an apocalypse, we’d be glad to find ourselves in the company of Tracy Spiridakos. The Canadian-born actress stars in Revolution, J.J. Abrams’ new series about life in a post-apocalyptic America, where electricity is a thing of our gilded past. As Charlotte Matheson, we get to see Tracy confront self-styled warlords and other end-of-the-world badasses as she searches for her brother, showing off her super-hot self all along the way. The end of the world’s never looked so good.
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Spiridakos began acting in junior high school, and studied at the Actors Training Centre of Manitoba. She graduated from Oak Park High School in Winnipeg in 2000. Spiridakos moved to Vancouver in 2007 to pursue acting, and within weeks landed her first television role, a small part on Supernatural. She continued working in television, with walk-on roles on Bionic Woman, The L Word, Hellcats, and Psych. Spiridakos appeared in the TV movie Goblin, and the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy. She also had a recurring role on Being Human as werewolf Brynn McLean.
In 2009, she won her first starring role in the Canadian Teletoon series Majority Rules!, playing 15-year-old Becky Richards. She made her feature film debut in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and filmed the low-budget thriller, Kill For Me, with Donal Logue and Katie Cassidy. In mid-2012, Spiridakos landed a lead role on the NBC television series Revolution as Charlie Matheson, a survivalist in a dystopian future civilization. She auditioned for the role while attending her first pilot season in Los Angeles. Spiridakos shot the pilot in Atlanta, and continued filming the series in Wilmington, North Carolina.As of December 2012, Spiridakos is engaged to Jon Cor, an actor from Ontario, Canada. They co-starred in the 2010 film The Boy She Met Online. He also played her werewolf brother in the U.S. version of Being Human. Spiridakos will guest star on season 3 of the Showtime sitcom, Episodes, as Dawn, a relative of the character Morning Randolph (Mircea Monroe)
