Erica Durance

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Biography

Recent Role:
Annie Bellson on Harry's Law
Gender:
Female
Born:
6-21-1978
Birthplace:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Birth Name:
Erica Durance
AKA:
Erica Parker
Erica was born in Calgary to a truck driver, Joel, and librarian, Gail. She grew up with an older brother and sister on a turkey farm in Three Hills, Alberta. After school, she moved to Vancouver to start her acting career, which has primarily included low-budget horror films and guest roles on sci-fi TV shows.

In 2004, Durance began her role as Lois Lane in the popular CW/WB series Smallville.

Erica married David Palffy on January 8, 2005.

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  • Erica is perfect

    I saw Smallville only because of Erica. she isbrilliant inevery things. her acting is awesome,her looks is gorgeous. her smile is so charming. and many many more and in my opinion she is made for (Lois) in Smallville and if she is not remains in the show theMore show goes to crash DOOM. she is the heart of the show (Smallville) and. I really really like her and in Smallville Tom & Erica are perfectcouple and I gave them ( couple of the year award 2010 ) ........ he he he he

    1 comments, last one Nov 2, 2010
  • questions from a newbie...

    I just started my smallville marathon and I'm still on the 4th season and some episodes from season 5 &6. I'm all for the chloe-clark angle at first but now, I can see that what is between the two is just pure friendship, well-- on Clark's side, that is. Anyway, I know that inMore superman, Clark Kent is supposed to be with lois lane but the way the story is going now , Lois & Clark here in this series are kinda growing apart with Clark still not over lana and Lois being romantically linked with Queen and other guys on the next season if the spoilers are true. I understand that not all the things thatare on the superman storyare patterned for smallville so my question is, will Lois be EVER be with Clark??? Or they will totally bring the lana-clark angle unique for smallville?

    5 comments, last one Jul 1, 2009
  • lois... a series REGULAR

    since smallville is not likely to last too much longer (i heard on some board season 8 could be it), do you think erica durance will ever be in more than about half of the episodes?

    3 comments, last one Jun 6, 2008
  • Erica....Yum,Yum

    MMMMMMMMMMM lmao

    3 comments, last one Feb 21, 2008
  • Best lois lane ever

    I think she is the best lois lane ever she is one of the only one that is funny

    9 comments, last one Oct 20, 2007
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    Erica Durance=Awesome!

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    I think Erica is absolutely amazing. In my opinion, she's the best Lois Lane to date.


    And that's saying a lot, because I remember loving Teri Hatcher as Lois when I was younger. But Erica really brought the character to life. She managed to waltz into the series in season 4 and steal the show one season, one episode at a time. And I imagine that's hard to do, especially with fan favorite Lana on the scene. Trust me, I know because I was a hard-core Clana(that's short for Clark and Lana) fan, until Lois came into the picture.


    I could say that it's just that Lois is an awesome character and Erica Durance just happened to be acting her out, but I'd be lying. Erica Durance is the perfect example that the actor (or in her case actress) makes the role. She succeeded in making Lois strong, smart, courageous, funny (sarcastic), confident, sweet and vulnerable all at once. She also made Lois loud, bossy, insulting and annoying at least half the time, but she owned it and made those characteristics charming and indispensable for Lois' character.


    Lois was the only one besides Oliver who could handle Clark and wasn't afraid to tell him how things were. If he was awesome, she told him, but if she didn't like his behavior, she called him on it and he listened to her. She gave Clark a lot of tough love over the seasons, but she could also be really sweet and a shoulder to cry on when he needed one the most. While Clark was used to being in control, she nipped that behavior in the bud from the start, bossing Clark around instead. (I think that at first Clark condoned it because she was older and hard to handle, but that at some point he started to like someone else being in control for a change).


    Clark didn't need another person to worship at his altar, or for him to worship at someone's altar. He needed someone who understood him, trusted him and believed in him not because he was the savior mankind had been waiting for, but because he was Clark, a simple, flawed person, who happened to have the potential to be something greater with the right guidance. He needed someone to be his strength, when everyone expected him to be strong for himself. He needed an equal. And Erica showed in her every performance that Lois was Clark's equal. She shared the burden of Clark's destiny early on, without even knowing it, simply by being there and being Lois.


    Erica owned Lois and she played her with style. She made Lois' character believable, real, relatable and absolutely lovable. In every way she made Lois' character better than I ever thought it could've been and as a result, she made Smallville a better show.


    I've watched other productions with Erica Durance. The Butterfly Effect 2 is another one of my favorites. And I think she was just as amazing in that movie.


    I think Erica Durance does not get enough credit. How this woman hasn't managed to land her own show or another lead role in a show is a complete mystery to me.

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    10 Perfect
    There is no better actor in this world that could play the part of Lois Lane better than Erica Durance that's acting at it's best & to top it up she's gorgous & has a superb sense of humour onscreen that makes her so enjoyable to watch hide show

    Would love to see more of Erica Durance in future movies to come such acting needs to be seen more on movie screens,not only gorgous but talented wich from my point of view gives Erica a rating of 10/10,would love to know what was the insperation of becoming such a superb actress.Smallville only got intresting when Lois(Erica Durance)came into the picture for sum reason everything fell into place,especially when Lois & Clark became a match made in heaven,enjoy when lois handles things her way or should i say kick booty,without Lois thers no Clark & no hope to save the planet.

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    I saw Smallville only because of Erica. she is brilliant in every things.her acting is awesome,her looks is gorgeous.

    her smile is so charming. and many many more
    and in my opinion she is made for (Lois) in Smallville and if she is not remains in the show the show goes to crash DOOM. She made the show great and true achievement of the show she is the heart of the show (Smallville) and. I really really like her
    and in Smallville Tom & Erica are perfectcouple and I gave them ( couple of the year award 2010 ) ........ he he he he

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    9.5 Superb
    I love erica durance, she is an amazing actress and i think that she is the best lois lane there is! She is my favorite actress in the world with emma watson! LOL Xxx hide show

    I love erica durance, she is an amazing actress and i think that she is the best lois lane there is! She is my favorite actress in the world with emma watson! LOL XxxI love erica durance, she is an amazing actress and i think that she is the best lois lane there is! She is my favorite actress in the world with emma watson! LOL XxxI love erica durance, she is an amazing actress and i think that she is the best lois lane there is! She is my favorite actress in the world with emma watson! LOL Xxx

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    8.5 Great
    She is absolutely so pretty! I’m so envious of her. I love that she is from Canada! (whoo!) We def. need more Canadians out there. Anyways I liked her a lot on hide show

    She is absolutely so pretty! I’m so envious of her. I love that she is from Canada! (whoo!) We def. need more Canadians out there. Anyways I liked her a lot on Smallville. (I have yet to see her in her new movies- Where she’s a kick ass fighter) However in Smallville it was sad how they ended it for Season 8. I much rather wish we could have stuck with the Season 7 ending. This one was just depressing. (Though her fighting back part where she cut her hair and stuff was pretty cool) Regardless I think she’s an amazing person. I hope we get to see more of her. OH MAN! They should have a trailer for her movie in the background in season 9. It would be AMAZING!

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