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| Canadian actress (born 31 December 1970, Alberta, Canada). She is one of few Canadian females to have made the successful screen transition from television to film. The actresses' first big break came in 1991 when she played a small part in the television series True Confections, a 1950s conservative drama about a woman with an ahead-of-her-time awareness. Rather surprisingly however, it wasn't until two years later that Chandra followed-up her screen debut with a somewhat smaller role in the albeit more-recognised series The Secret of Lake Success. A brief taste of things to come followed as she appeared in three consecutive films; the first as the female-lead in Puppet Master 4 (1993), then a smaller role as Miss Germany in the action-flick No Contest (1994) also starring Robert Davi and Roddy Piper, and in the same year, reprising her role as Susie in Puppet Master 5 (1994) (though many consider this addition to be the weakest of all the Puppet Master series of films). The closing months of 1994 and most of 1995 saw Chandra return to her TV roots with appearances in Madonna: Innocence Lost (1994), Catwalk (1994), Falling For You (1995) and the role of Muriel Hemingway in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995). A whole host of other parts kept her busy throughout the late nineties - including the role of Veronica Reynolds in both the back-to-back Universal Soldier sequels, Universal Soldier 2: Brothers in Arms (1998) and Universal Soldier 3: Unifinished Business (1998) - until her major breakthrough as Val Kilmer's on-screen wife in the 2002 D.J. Caruso crime thriller, The Salton Sea. Following the moderate success of the latter, Chandra was exposed to a wider market, helping her grasp the part of Robin in The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest, which despite an all-star cast, including Steve Buscemi, Rosanna Dawson, Adam Garcia and of course, Chandra herself - as well a script penned by Jon "Swingers" Favreau - the film was panned critically and deemed a major disappointed. The flop had little effect on Chandra's rise though, as she was soon learning the lines for her next role as Laura Chandler in the Emmy-nominated mini-series Mister Sterling (2003). Two years/small films later, she was cast as the wife of Michael Keaton in the 2005 horror flick White Noise. Chandra has just finished filming Canes which will be released in 2006 and also stars Edward Furlong and Michael Madsen. |
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