Acting
Vanessa Burns
Place of birth
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Known for
Acting
Credits
16 titles
Vanessa Burns is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for playing press reporter Shelly on the television show "Designated Survivor". She's a graduate from the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Known for
8.4A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
The Boys
2019
8.1Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
6.9Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
Star Trek: Discovery
2017
7.7The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.
Lost Girl
2010
7.8A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
Orphan Black
2013
7.7A glimpse into the outrageous lives of Jane, Kat and Sutton, who are working at the nation's top women's magazine, Scarlet, while navigating their careers, identities and individual voices.
The Bold Type
2017
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.6When her father dies, MacKenzie keeps his tradition of the town's fundraising "The Reindeer Games" alive, but when high school crush Chase shows up and plays against her, the spark between them is undeniable.
Reindeer Games Homecoming
2022
6.3A young woman who unknowingly grew up in federal witness protection reels after her mother’s murder, leading her to question everything that she thinks is true. She decides to leave the program and find the killer before he kills again, but reclaiming a life she never knew isn’t going to be easy.
The Plot to Kill My Mother
2023
2010s · 5 titles
6.0A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
Strange but True
2019
7.0When Anne helps her father close the family's toy store, what she finds will help inspire an entire town that is need of some Christmas cheer.
Nostalgic Christmas
2019
5.9A doctor returns home for Christmas to find that her father has decided to retire from his own practice. After reuniting with her high school sweetheart, she wonders if she should stay and take over her father's practice.
The Christmas Cure
2017
NRGrieving young widower Santiago convinces his landlord - a disgraced biochemist with a serious hygiene problem - to help him clone his dead wife, using their female housemate as a surrogate mother.
A Brand New You
2014
1.0When openly gay Leo decides to bring his boyfriend Mitchell home for the first time at his families' Seder the boundaries of love and understanding get a little strained. Will everything go smoothly or will it all go to pot?
The Seder
2012
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
8.4A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
The Boys
2019
8.1Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
6.9Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.
Star Trek: Discovery
2017
7.7The gorgeous and charismatic Bo is a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for the truth about her own mysterious origins.
Lost Girl
2010
7.8A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.
Orphan Black
2013
7.7A glimpse into the outrageous lives of Jane, Kat and Sutton, who are working at the nation's top women's magazine, Scarlet, while navigating their careers, identities and individual voices.
The Bold Type
2017
6.3Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
Incorporated
2016