Elyse Levesque

Elyse Levesque is a Canadian actress whose career started when, at 11, she joined a repertory company of young performers on the children's show The Incredible Story Studio. Commercial jobs followed, along with a two-year turn as the villainous Maxine Rich in the futuristic children's series 2030 CE. She then spent two years modeling in Taiwan, Japan, Italy, Spain, and France before going home to Canada for fine arts studies. In 2006 she settled in Vancouver, took acting lessons, and landed parts in television and film. Her range has included Edgar Allan Poe's sickly wife, Cissy, in a Masters of Horror episode, and a bog witch who wields flames in Flash Gordon. She has also appeared in Smallville, Men in Trees, and other Canadian and American series. Her best-known part is Chloe Armstrong, a senator's daughter, in Syfy's Stargate Universe, and in 2014 she was Genevieve, a witch, on The Originals.