Sarah Jean Hodkinson

Height: 170 cm

Sarah Jean Hodkinson is a Canadian Actress and was born August 1st, 1984 in Owen Sound, Ontario to parents Michael and Barbara Hodkinson.Recently playing "Young Verna" (Mary Walsh) in Chille ...Show More

Sarah Jean Hodkinson is a Canadian Actress and was born August 1st, 1984 in Owen Sound, Ontario to parents Michael and Barbara Hodkinson.Recently playing "Young Verna" (Mary Walsh) in Chiller's "Slasher" she has booked leading roles for TV shows such as "Paranormal Witness" (SyFy/Space),"Web of Lies" (Discovery) and "Motives and Murders" (Discovery/OWN). She has also had huge success with independent short films "Eggs" and "Shawn" which she starred and produced.For two years in a row her films have been featured under Local Heroes at the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Light Box first "Eggs" and then "Shawn". "Eggs" was also picked up and shown on Rogers TV."Shawn" also landed on the big screen at Reel World Film Festival and was featured at Toronto's CBC building under Canadian Media Guild playing on loop for Pride Week!Blog TO named Sarah Jean and her team as one of 10 filmmaker "game changers" in the film industry today.Sarah Jean's love for the arts and Toronto went hand in hand when she appeared on the cover of Toronto's NOW Magazine with creative partner, Jonathan Nathaniel.She has studied under David Rottenberg and John Gordon at the Professional Actors Lab and studied at Second City Toronto.Hodkinson is a graduate of the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts in Toronto. She has worked with top choreographers and dance companies in the city, including Lindsay Ritter's dance company LR Productions and Carla Catherwood's Neuvo Burlesque team.Sarah Jean's dance career began at 5-years-old, when her grandmother, a ballet teacher, enrolled her in the strict training of Cecchetti Ballet. Before she was 10-years-old, she was attending exams at The National Ballet School of Canada and taking master classes.At 18 years of age, not only did she obtain her Intermediate in The Royal Academy of Dance, Her dance trio headed to Italy to represent Canada and competed successfully in Dance Grand Prix Italia, under Jazz/Hip Hop.Some of her other television credits include Outlaw Bikers, Royal Canadian Air Farce, Urban Legends, and Ghostly Encounters. Hide