| Birth Date: | 2 November 1968 |
| Birth Name: | Samantha Ferris |
| Birth Place: | North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation: | Actress |
| Years Active: | 1996–present |
Samantha Ferris (born November 2, 1968) is a Canadian actress, best known for her starring role as Nina Jarvis on The 4400 and her recurring role as Ellen Harvelle on Supernatural.
Ferris began her career as a radio announcer[1] and in the mid-1990s was a television reporter for the Bellingham, Washington station KVOS-TV 12 and Vancouver's BCTV, where she went by the name Janie Ferris.
After the death of her father she decided to change careers and become an actress. She has had many starring and supporting television roles, her most notable being Sandra Cassandra on Beggars and Choosers, Nina Jarvis on The 4400,[2] Lt. Alexa Brenner on The Evidence and Ellen Harvelle on Supernatural. Other television roles include that of deckhand Pollux in the episode "Dirty Hands" of Battlestar Galactica,[3] as well as roles in Smallville,[4] Stargate SG-1, The L Word,[5] V and a series of TV movies featuring The Gourmet Detective.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Along Came a Spider | Mrs. Hume | |
| Blackwoods | Waitress / Beth | ||
| 2006 | Gray Matters | Elaine | |
| 2007 | Butterfly on a Wheel | Diane | AKA, Shattered |
| 2009 | Grace | Patricia Lang | |
| 2010 | Icarus | Kerr | AKA, The Killing Machine |
| 2012 | Tracy | ||
| 2018 | Valley of the Lanterns | Bookmaker | |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Saber Marionette J | Panther (voice) | TV series | |
| 1998 | Lauren Urbina | TV film | ||
| Lacey | "Wednesday Leaves Home" | |||
| 1999 | Stargate SG-1 | Dr. Raully | "Out of Mind", "Into the Fire" | |
| 1999–2001 | Beggars and Choosers | Sandra Cassandra | Recurring role | |
| 2000 | Lauren Urbina | TV film | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | Sally Po (voice) | "Go Forth, Gundam Team" | ||
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: The Movie - Endless Waltz | Sally Po (voice) | TV film | ||
| First Wave | Alice | "Mabus" | ||
| So Weird | Miranda Scott | "Still Life" | ||
| 2001 | Suzanne | "Grass on the Grave" | ||
| Earth Maiden Arjuna | Teresa Wong (voice) | TV miniseries | ||
| Dana Farrard | "Behind the Isaak" | |||
| 2002 | Da Vinci's Inquest | Dolores Williams | "Simple, Sad" | |
| Glory Days | Helen | "The Devil Made Me Do It" | ||
| 2003 | Det. Katherine Cooke | TV film | ||
| 2004 | Smallville | Warden Anita Stone | "Scare" | |
| Taylor | TV film | |||
| 2005 | Meryl Rothman | "Luminous" | ||
| Personal Effects | Gail Feldman | TV film | ||
| Da Vinci's Inquest | Const. Samantha Townsend | "Must Be a Night for Fires" | ||
| Reunion | Emily Fisher | "1989" | ||
| 2005–2006 | Nina Jarvis | Main role | ||
| 2006 | Tessa | "The Media Baron" | ||
| Lt. Alexa Brenner | Regular role | |||
| Reunion | Emily Fisher | "1997" | ||
| Last Chance Cafe | Madge Beardsley | TV film | ||
| 2006–2011 | Supernatural | Ellen Harvelle | 9 episodes | |
| 2007 | Battlestar Galactica | Pollux | "Dirty Hands" | |
| Witness to Murder | Shawna | TV film | ||
| Enemy Within | Hines | TV film | ||
| 2008 | Lillian | TV film | ||
| 2009 | Impact | Renee Ferguson | TV miniseries | |
| 2010 | Human Target | Deputy Director Lynch | "Baptiste" | |
| Seven Deadly Sins | Diana Morgan | "1.2" | ||
| Hiccups | Bambi Weeks | "You Schmooze, You Lose" | ||
| V | Private Investigator | "Pound of Flesh", "Fruition" | ||
| 2011 | V | Felicia Castro | "Birth Pangs" | |
| 2012 | Smart Cookies | Hazel Hillburn | TV film | |
| 2013 | Emily Owens, M.D. | Marian Camphill | "The Love of Larping" | |
| Carolyn | "Detention" | |||
| Let It Snow | Sally | TV film | ||
| 2014 | RL Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series | Mother | "Grandpa's Glasses" | |
| 2015 | Exposed | Nancy Grace Type | TV film | |
| 2015 | Backstrom | Rebecca Forrester | "Dragon Slayer" | |
| 2015–2017; 2020 | Gourmet Detective film series | Capt. Forsyth | Hallmark Movies & Mysteries films | |
| 2015 | Mistresses | Det. Libby Whitehead | Recurring role | |
| 2016 | Newlywed and Dead | Annie Ward | TV film | |
| Paula | Hallmark Channel film | |||
| Looks Like Christmas | Jill Higgins | Hallmark Channel film | ||
| 2017 | Somewhere Between | Capt. Kendra Sarneau | Regular role | |
| Hit the Road | Linda Shapiro | "It's My Party", "Kush" | ||
| 2018 | Six | Kate Kilcannon | Recurring role | |
| Garage Sale Mystery The Mask Murder | Michelle | Hallmark Movies & Mysteries film | ||
| Salvation | Director Evelyn Davis | Recurring role (season 2) | ||
| 2022 | Devil in Ohio | Rhoda Morrison | TV miniseries; 4 episodes | |
| Batwoman | Director of the GCPS | 1 episode | ||
| 2023 | Picture of Her | Aunt Dody | Hallmark Channel movie | |
| 2024 | When Calls the Heart | Maisie Hickam | Recurring role |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Mrs. Wilkinson | ||
| 2004 | Leslie Handleman | |||
| 2005 | SSX on Tour | Zoe Payne | ||
| 2022 | New Tales from the Borderlands | Susan Coldwell |