Anna Hopkins

Anna Hopkins is a Canadian actress from Montreal who trained in hip hop dancing before turning to theater. Her first screen credit came in 2005 with the miniseries Human Trafficking, and she went on to appear in Canadian television series and films. She had roles in Barney's Version (2010) with Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman, and The Grand Seduction with Brendan Gleeson in 2013. In 2014 she played Samantha Clayton during a crossover between The Flash and Arrow. She recurred as Jessica Rainer, called Berlin, on Defiance, becoming a series regular in its last season. She is known for Lilith on Shadowhunters and for Monica Stuart, a documentary filmmaker, on The Expanse. She wrote for Girl Couch and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee in 2022 for For the Record. She has directed short films, including Dish Pit, which premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and earned a 2025 Directors Guild of Canada nomination.