Sonja O'Hara

Sonja O'Hara is a Canadian writer, director and actress from Halifax, Nova Scotia, who started acting in school plays at ten. As a teenager she moved to New York City to study at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, and in 2006 she took a lead part in the New York premiere of Pieces of Paradise, a Tennessee Williams play. In 2007 she performed in New York in Norman Mailer's The Deer Park, as a character drawn from Marilyn Monroe. Her best known screen role is Calpurnia Dylan in Ovum (2015). She created, directed and stars in the digital series Doomsday, which earned a 2021 Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Daytime Fiction Program and took Best Series honors at HBO's ITVFest. Her first feature as a director, Root Letter, an adaptation of a Japanese video game, came in 2019, and she was named one of Independent Magazine's 10 Filmmakers to Watch.