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Recent Role:: Myka Bering on Warehouse 13

Gender:: Female

Birthplace:: Bay d'Espoir, Newfoundland, Canada

Birth Name:: Joanne Kelly

Canadian stage, film, and television actress Joanne Kelly, most popular for her role as Secret Service Agent Myka Bering on the SyFy original series Warehouse 13, grew up on a farm in Newfoundland, a small town with a population of 700 people. Not having television for entertainment, Joanne occupied herself with reading sci-fi and fantasy books such as the works of JRR Tolkien. After finishing high school at Greenwood Academy in Milltown, Bay… More d'Espoir in 1996, she moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia to attend Acadia University where she graduated in 2000. It was in her early-20s that Kelly pursued a career in acting, first appearing in plays and later on auditioning for television gigs in Canada.

In February 2002, Joanne made her television debut as Zareth, a Desserian thief possessing chameleon powers, in an episode of the syndicated sci-fi drama Tracker. Soon after, she guest-starred in another sci-fi show called Mentors, which was filmed and set in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Her first series regular role came in the Fall of 2003, appearing as Liberty "Libby" Kaufman in the second season of the post-apocalyptic drama Jeremiah, which starred Luke Perry as the title character. Her other memorable roles include playing Sara Collins, a senator's wife and the object of an FBI search, on the FOX series Vanished and Bianca, the most powerful vampire in Chicago, on The Dresden Files.

Prior to her work on television, Kelly was involved with the theatre company Shakespeare by the Sea, where she performed in productions of Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, and Measure for Measure. She also got to tour to the Minack in Cornwall, England for the staging of Romeo and Juliet. Her other theatrical credits include Same Plan Co-op's Seven Stories and HurlyBurly Theatre Company's Macbeth. In 2004, she played a gorgeous hitchhiker in the comedy National Lampoon's Going the Distance. The next two years, Joanne starred in several made-for-TV movies including Whiskey Echo, Playing House, and Heyday!. In 2009. the re-branded SyFy Channel brought her in to play Agent Bering and team up with another Secret Service agent, Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) and warehouse keeper Artie Nielsen (Saul Rubinek) to track down and procure mysterious, ancient artifacts on Warehouse 13.

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Joanne Kelly as Myka Bering and Eddie McClintock as Pete Lattimer on Warehouse 13 from the episode

Joanne Kelly as Myka Bering on Warehouse 13 from the episode

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Joanne Kelly on Warehouse 13 from the episode

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1 comments, last one Aug 28, 2009 + Add Comment
Here's the place to wish Joanne well in her career.

Well, let me be the first to wish Bay d'Espoir's own Joanne Kelly well. From Milltown to a series on Fox. That ain't bad. Here's to you from me. Don't forget where you come from and can't wait to see where you go from here.

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