Julia Taylor Ross

Julia Taylor Ross, also known as Julia Chan, is an English actress and presenter who was born in Prestbury and raised in Cheshire. She studied at University College London and Harvard University, where she acted at the American Repertory Theater, and earned a master's degree from the New School of Drama in 2010. While still at graduate school she gained a role in Rookie Blue (2010), and from 2012 to 2017 she played Dr. Maggie Lin across five seasons of the CTV series Saving Hope. Her film work includes Silent House (2011) and Ava's Possessions (2015), and she has made guest appearances in Gotham (2016) and Schitt's Creek (2017). She co-hosted the first two seasons of The Great Canadian Baking Show with Dan Levy and later played Pepper Smith in Katy Keene (2020), appeared in the stage play 2:22 A Ghost Story in 2021, and was in Archive 81 on Netflix in 2022.