Elysia Rotaru


Crystal Elysia Lorraine Rotaru is a Canadian actress known for playing Taiana Venediktov in Arrow.

Biography

Rotaru was born in Vancouver to Romanian parents and is fluently bilingual in English and Romanian. From a young age she took dance classes and was involved in school plays as well as piano recitals. She enrolled at Simon Fraser University for a career in psychology, but in the middle of the program she changed to theater, earning a degree in Fine Arts with a specialty in Theater. She also studied traditional Chinese medicine.

Career

Rotaru debuted in 2008 as a guest star on an episode of the USA Network series, Psych, this was followed by appearances in television series such as Eureka of SyFy and Smallville and Supernatural on The CW. In 2010, Rotaru was given a recurring role in Hellcats, where she played Betsy. She also starred in the film ' where she played Ingrid.
In 2015, she appeared as a guest star on Motive, a television series broadcast on ABC and on the CW's iZombie. She temporarily voiced Sabine Wren on Disney XD's '. On August 10, 2015, Rotaru was cast in the TV show Arrow as Taiana Venediktov, a love interest for Stephen Amell's character, Oliver Queen, during the flashback sequences.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Web