Karen Holness
Acting
1977-03-15 · London, Ontario, Canada
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 as Blythe Ann Workman in The 100 (2019–2020, seasons 6–7), Ms. Diona in Make It Pop (2015–2016), Liz McKendra in Cashing In (2009–2014), with additional credits in Superman & Lois (2021), Firefly Lane (2022), A Million Little Things (2020), Lucifer (2016), Travelers (2016), Riverdale (2017), Once Upon a Time (2014), and Psych (2014). Beyond acting, she performs as a jazz singer with her bands Jazz Baby and Boogie Fever, the latter of which has played internationally at the Jamaican Jazz and Blues International Festival in Montego Bay.
Filmography
An Angel in My Stocking
2026 · Movie
A Royal Montana Christmas
2025 · Movie
FIVE
2025 · Movie
The 13th Wife: Escaping Polygamy
2025 · Series
Confessions of a Christmas Letter
2024 · Movie
Woman of the Hour
2024 · Movie
Confessions of a Cam Girl
2024 · Movie
Sight Unseen
2024 · Series
Christmas of Yes
2023 · Movie
A Christmas Blessing
2023 · Movie
Phantom Pups
2022 · Series
Billy the Kid
2022 · Series
The Christmas Promise
2021 · Movie
The 27-Hour Day
2021 · Movie
A Cinderella Story: Starstruck
2021 · Movie
A Whirlwind Wedding
2021 · Movie
Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer
2021 · Movie
Superman & Lois
2021 · Series
Firefly Lane
2021 · Series
Love Under the Olive Tree
2020 · Movie
Torn: Dark Bullets
2020 · Movie
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds
2020 · Movie
Christmas Town
2019 · Movie
Christmas at the Plaza
2019 · Movie
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Her Last Breath
2019 · Movie
Chronicle Mysteries: The Deep End
2019 · Movie
The Art of Racing in the Rain
2019 · Movie
Always Be My Maybe
2019 · Movie
Made for You with Love
2019 · Movie
My Mom's Letter from Heaven
2019 · Movie
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man
2019 · Movie
Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered
2019 · Movie
Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls
2019 · Movie
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Silent Witness
2019 · Movie
A Twist of Christmas
2018 · Movie
Christmas on Holly Lane
2018 · Movie
A Million Little Things
2018 · Series
Truly, Madly, Sweetly
2018 · Movie
Secret Millionaire
2018 · Movie
The Christmas Train
2017 · Movie
Finding Santa
2017 · Movie
Date My Dad
2017 · Series
Bigger Fatter Liar
2017 · Movie
Woman on the Run
2017 · Movie
Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts
2017 · Movie
Campfire Kiss
2017 · Movie
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground
2017 · Movie
Riverdale
2017 · Series
Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery
2017 · Movie
Garage Sale Mystery: The Art of Murder
2017 · Movie
A Rose for Christmas
2017 · Movie
Every Christmas Has a Story
2016 · Movie
Travelers
2016 · Series
Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House
2016 · Movie
Stranger in the House
2016 · Movie
The Convenient Groom
2016 · Movie
All Yours
2016 · Movie
Who Killed My Husband
2016 · Movie
Lucifer
2016 · Series
Santa's Little Helper
2015 · Movie
One Crazy Cruise
2015 · Movie
Make It Pop
2015 · Series
Corner Gas: The Movie
2014 · Movie
The Tree That Saved Christmas
2014 · Movie
Wedding Planner Mystery
2014 · Movie
Recipe for Love
2014 · Movie
The 100
2014 · Series
Til Death Do Us Part
2014 · Movie
Finding Mrs. Claus
2012 · Movie
Arrow
2012 · Series
Abducted: The Carlina White Story
2012 · Movie
Level Up
2012 · Series
Once Upon a Time
2011 · Series
The Hunt for the I-5 Killer
2011 · Movie
Donovan's Echo
2011 · Movie
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
2010 · Series
Tower Prep
2010 · Series
The Listener
2009 · Series
Cashing In
2009 · Series
Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts
2009 · Movie
Trust
2009 · Movie
Tortured
2008 · Movie
Fringe
2008 · Series
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008 · Movie
jPod
2008 · Series
Twitches Too
2007 · Movie
Destination: Infestation
2007 · Movie
Air Buddies
2006 · Movie
Psych
2006 · Series
Twitches
2005 · Movie
Jake 2.0
2003 · Series
Riverworld
2003 · Movie
Chicago
2002 · Movie
The Twilight Zone
2002 · Series
The Dead Zone
2002 · Series
Dead in a Heartbeat
2002 · Movie
Smallville
2001 · Series
Mutant X
2001 · Series
Special Delivery
2000 · Movie
The Ultimate Christmas Present
2000 · Movie
2gether: The Series
2000 · Series
Out of Time
2000 · Movie
Best Actress
2000 · Movie
Rated X
2000 · Movie
Atomic Train
1999 · Series
First Wave
1998 · Series
Blues Brothers 2000
1998 · Movie
Earth: Final Conflict
1997 · Series