Natasha Negovanlis wiki : Natasha Negovanlis (born April 3, 1990) is a Canadian actress, singer, and writer. She is known for playing Carmilla Karnstein in the web series Carmilla (2014–2016) and in the 2017 feature film based on the series.
Before acting professionally, Negovanlis studied at Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts in Toronto, and majored in voice performance at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. She was cast in her first professional musical in 2011.
In 2014, Negovanlis was cast as the title role in the Canadian web series Carmilla. In the series, which is based on the 1871 gothic novella of the same name, Negovanlis portrays the vampire Carmilla, who appears after her roommate's previous roommate vanishes. The series premiered on Vervegirl (rebranded as KindaTV as of February 2016) channel on August 19, 2014 and has achieved worldwide recognition and praise for its near all-female cast and positive representation of various LGBT characters.
In 2015, she also starred with her Carmilla co-star Elise Bauman in the feature film Almost Adults, which screened at several festivals in 2016 before premiering on Netflix.Also that year, she ranked 5th on AfterEllen's Hot 100 List.
At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards, Negovanlis won the Fan Choice Award, voted on by fans, for her work on Carmilla. Her acceptance speech, in which she discussed the importance of queer representation, attracted media attention from various publications, including Buzzfeed and the Toronto Star.
In 2017, Negovanlis reprised her role of Carmilla Karnstein in The Carmilla Movie, a spin-off feature film based on the series.Later that year, alongside her Carmilla co-star Annie M. Briggs, Negovanlis successfully funded a digital series called CLAIREvoyant through an Independent Production Fund grant as well as an Indiegogo campaign that raised over $25,000. The show was co-created, co-written, and co-produced by Negovanlis and Briggs and the series premiered on the KindaTV YouTube channel on May 16, 2018.
In 2017, Negovanlis co-starred in her first American feature film, Freelancers Anonymous, which premiered at the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco on June 15th, 2018.
Negovanlis is of Macedonian, Métis, and Irish heritage and her last name is of Greek origin. She identifies as queer or pansexual
Negovanlis has fostered several dogs and adopted a rescue named Charlie.
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