Katherine Barrell

Katherine Barrell is a Canadian actor who also writes, directs and produces. Born in Toronto, she attended school in Burlington, Ontario, where she acted in plays, directed her high school's staging of The Wizard of Oz and spent two years with Burlington Student Theatre. She studied musical theater at Sheridan College and filmmaking and acting at George Brown College, graduating in 2010. On television she played Rowena in Poe (2011) and Sadie in Girls Night Out (2017), and she had guest parts on Lost Girl, Murdoch Mysteries and Saving Hope. She is known as Sheriff Nicole Haught in Wynonna Earp and joined Good Witch as Joy Harper in 2020. She played Jaqueline Gill in The Scarehouse (2014) and Victoria Burns in Definition of Fear (2015). Her company Kit Media made short films, and Dissecting Gwen, drawn from her own story, won a 2017 screenplay award from Women in Film and Television Toronto.