Briana Buckmaster

Briana Buckmaster is a Canadian actress and singer who has worked in television, on stage and in music. Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, she trained in theater arts at Grant MacEwan University and earned a diploma there. She is best known for playing Sheriff Donna Hanscum, a recurring character on Supernatural, and she was to appear in the main cast of the spinoff Wayward Sisters, which the network decided not to pick up. Her other television parts include Lil' Mama on Chip and Potato and Fretta Van Dango on Dorg Van Dango, and in 2022 she played Tamra in an episode of Kung Fu. On stage she appeared in several plays by Stewart Lemoine at the Teatro la Quindicina theater, including The Adulteress, which earned her a 2012 Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nomination. Her debut album, Begin, came out in 2018 and peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Top Blues Album chart.