About
Karen Holness (born March 15, 1977, in London, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress, dancer, and singer, the sister of singer Deborah Cox and singer/host Nicole Holness. She attended Performing Arts High School in Toronto before studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and is a co-founding member of the Beacon Theatre Company. She is based in Vancouver and is married with one child. On stage, Holness has performed in Rent, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Crazy for You, and Dreamgirls (as Deena Jones). Her most notable film credits include a featured dancer in Chicago (2002), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Always Be My Maybe (2019, as Kathy), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019), and Torn: Dark Bullets (2020, as Imani Bell, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Salt House Creative International Film Festival). On television she is best known...
Known for
SmallvilleSeries • 2001
ArrowSeries • 2012
LuciferSeries • 2016
PsychSeries • 2006
FringeSeries • 2008
Once Upon a TimeSeries • 2011
The 100Series • 2014
RiverdaleSeries • 2017
Superman & LoisSeries • 2021
A Million Little ThingsSeries • 2018
Earth: Final ConflictSeries • 1997
The Dead ZoneSeries • 2002
TravelersSeries • 2016
R. L. Stine's The Haunting HourSeries • 2010
The ListenerSeries • 2009
First WaveSeries • 1998
Mutant XSeries • 2001
The Twilight ZoneSeries • 2002
Firefly LaneSeries • 2021
The Art of Racing in the RainMovie • 2019
Billy the KidSeries • 2022
Sight UnseenSeries • 2024
Tower PrepSeries • 2010
ChicagoMovie • 2002