Elisha Cuthbert

Biography of Elisha Cuthbert

Elisha Cuthbert was born on November 30, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta. She is a Canadian actress.

Elisha Cuthbert was born in Calgary and grew up in Montreal. She began her modeling career at the age of seven. She always had the opportunity to take on smaller roles in television films and series.

In 1996 she took on a small additional role in the series Scary, Horror, Goosebumps. She was so well received during filming that she became a regular cast member in the 1999 reboot of the series. Between the ages of 15 and 18, she traveled the world as a correspondent for the award-winning series Popular Mechanics for Kids. She received an award for journalism for it and was invited to the White House by then First Lady Hillary Clinton.

Cuthbert had her international break as an actress in the role of Kimberly Bauer in the TV series 24.

Other films she has acted in are Lucky Girl (2001) and Old School (2003). She received a Gemini Award for Best Female Lead for her role in Lucky Girl and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for her role in the first season of series 24.

Her film The Girl Next Door (2004) nevertheless became one of her best-known films, for which she received two MTV Movie Award nominations. In the more successful horror remake House Of Wax (2005), Cuthbert cast the female lead. She was nominated for a 2008 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in the horror film Captivity.

Between 2011 and 2013, she starred in the sitcom Happy Endings as Alex Kerkovich, who left her fiancé at the altar for three seasons.

From 2016 to 2020, Cuthbert starred in the Netflix sitcom The Ranch alongside Ashton Kutcher and Sam Elliott.

In July 2013, Cuthbert married Canadian professional ice hockey player Dion Phaneuf, to whom she had been engaged the year before. Their daughter was born on December 21, 2017.