Hannah Levien

Hannah Levien, an Australian actress and writer, grew up in Brisbane, where she attended drama school and started her career in theater before earning a master's in screenwriting and directing from the University of Sydney. An Arts Queensland Professional Development Award allowed her to study with the American acting coach Ivana Chubbuck in Los Angeles. Her first feature film role was in The Horseman (2008), a revenge thriller in which she played the runaway teenager Jesse Forteski; the film screened at festivals including South by Southwest and won best film and best directing at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. After a manager brought her to Los Angeles in 2011, she was cast in Children of Sorrow. She is known for Calliope in Supernatural, Victoria in The Magicians, and Janine in the Freeform drama Siren, and in 2021 she appeared in the Netflix miniseries Brand New Cherry Flavor.