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name: "Sara Canning"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sara-canning"
roles: []
born: "14 July 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T16:56:21.213578+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Sara Canning

Actor. Born 14 July 1987 in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

## Details

- **Born:** 14 July 1987, Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Canning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232078, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3048050/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/221840

## Coming up

- *My Christmas Cowboy* (2026-11-13)

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*War for the Planet of the Apes*](https://film.one/film/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes.md) (74)

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## Biography

Sara Canning is a Canadian actress. She was born on 14 July 1987 in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, and raised partly in Sherwood Park, Alberta. She studied general arts at the University of Alberta before training at Vancouver Film School, from which she graduated in 2007.

Canning is known for her role as Jenna Sommers in the television series *The Vampire Diaries* (2009–2017). She appeared as Lake in the film *War for the Planet of the Apes* (2017) and as Jacquelyn Scieszka in the Netflix series *A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2017–2018). Other credits include *Primeval: New World* (2012–2013), *Remedy* (2014–2015) and *Level 16* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *War for the Planet of the Apes* (2017), Fi1m 74, as Lake — [page](https://film.one/film/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes.md)

## Complete filmography (70)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *My Christmas Cowboy* (2026), Actor
- *Crew Girl* (2026), series, as Imogen Regis
- *One Mile: Chapter Two* (2026), as Janine
- *One Mile: Chapter One* (2026), as Janine
- *Mama's Little Murderer* (2026), as Constance
- *Defile* (2025), as Mother
- *Negative Capability* (2025), as Nina
- *Shaman* (2025), as Candice
- *Christmas On Call* (2024), as Hannah
- *Murder in a Small Town* (2024), series, as Mackenzie Rankin
- *Dark Match* (2024), as Kate the Great
- *The Burning Season* (2024), as Alena
- *Kill Victoria* (2024), as Paula
- *Sight Unseen* (2024), series, as Lisa Darrow
- *Holiday Road* (2023), as Dana
- *Sweetland* (2023), as Clara
- *Coupled Up for Christmas* (2023), as Tiffany Williams
- *The Irrational* (2023), series, as DA Elise Bowen
- *Influencer* (2023), as Jessica
- *Christmas at the Golden Dragon* (2022), as Veronica
- *Love Amongst the Stars* (2022), as Heidi
- *A Christmas Star* (2021), as Madeline Baggett
- *Superhost* (2021), as Claire
- *Big Sky* (2020), series, as Rachel Westergaard
- *The Christmas Yule Blog* (2020), as Caroline Williams
- *Fu*king Idiots* (2020), as Venice
- *The Christmas Temp* (2019), as Hazel
- *Amish Abduction* (2019), as Annie Baker
- *Nancy Drew* (2019), series, as Katherine Drew
- *Creepshow* (2019), series, as Astrid (Segment: The Hat)
- *Z* (2019), as Jenna Montgomery
- *The Banana Splits Movie* (2019), as Rebecca
- *Wu Assassins* (2019), series, as Alana
- *Hatch* (2019), as Marcy
- *A.R.C.H.I.E. 2: Mission Impawsible* (2018), as Lara
- *Welcome to Nowhere* (2018), as Blake
- *The Fish & The Sea* (2018), Actor
- *Prodigals* (2018), as Jen
- *Level 16* (2018), as Miss Brixil
- *9-1-1* (2018), series, as Sheila
- *Multiverse Dating For Beginners* (2017), as Ivy
- *War for the Planet of the Apes* (2017), as Lake — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes.md)
- *A Series of Unfortunate Events* (2017), series, as Jacquelyn
- *Hello Destroyer* (2016), as Wendy Davis
- *On the Farm* (2016), as Sinead McLeod
- *Eadweard* (2015), as Flora
- *Remedy* (2014), series, as Dr. Melissa Conner
- *I Put a Hit on You* (2014), as Harper
- *The Right Kind of Wrong* (2013), as Colette
- *Garage Sale Mystery* (2013), as Hannah Shannon
- *King & Maxwell* (2013), series, as Claire Culpepper
- *I Think I Do* (2013), as Audrey
- *Primeval: New World* (2012), series, as Dylan Weir
- *Corvus* (2012), as Dame
- *Hannah's Law* (2012), as Hannah Beaumont
- *Hell on Wheels* (2011), series, as Charlotte Royce
- *Once Upon a Time* (2011), series, as Gretel
- *The Hunt for the I-5 Killer* (2011), as Beth Williams
- *Republic of Doyle* (2010), series, as Jessica Dwyer
- *Taken in Broad Daylight* (2009), as Anne Sluti
- *Black Field* (2009), as Maggie McGregor
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), series, as Jenna Sommers
- *Red Torrent* (2009), as Jenny
- *Come Dance at My Wedding* (2009), as Andrea Merriman
- *Slap Shot 3: The Junior League* (2008), as Hope
- *Paparazzi Princess: The Paris Hilton Story* (2008), as Nicky Hilton
- *Supernatural* (2005), series, as Lydia
- *Smallville* (2001), series, as Kat
- *Blind Owl*, Actor
- *Let It Stay Here*, as Woman

## Gallery

- ![Sara Canning](https://film.one/media/person/1222260/gallery-addf641be7e7.jpg) Sara Canning — Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Sara_Canning_at_a_CFC_event_in_L.A._2018_%2840065286175%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Sara Canning](https://film.one/media/person/1222260/gallery-c936f5ecbafc.jpg) Sara Canning — Image via TMDB
- ![Sara Canning](https://film.one/media/person/1222260/gallery-4f8377cb963b.jpg) Sara Canning — Image via TMDB
- ![Sara Canning](https://film.one/media/person/1222260/gallery-eff0251086ee.jpg) Sara Canning — Image via TMDB
- ![Sara Canning](https://film.one/media/person/1222260/gallery-79c61e82df10.jpg) Sara Canning — Image via TMDB
- ![Sara Canning](https://film.one/media/person/1222260/gallery-052eff8d6c81.jpg) Sara Canning — Image via TMDB
- ![Sara Canning](https://film.one/media/person/1222260/gallery-d8d02b0781e8.jpg) Sara Canning — Image via TMDB

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