Personal Info
Birth date
1982-03-25 (43 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Also known as
-Vanessa Smythe
Biography
Vanessa Smythe is a Canadian actor and writer, best known for playing Michio in The Expanse. You can catch her on shows like Hudson & Rex and Murdoch Mysteries, and her live solo show, In Case We Disappear, has sold out houses internationally. She creates escape rooms in video stores and composes poems for arts and sports campaigns, and her latest solo show was performed when she was 8 months pregnant. You can catch her in the upcoming films Littlemouth and Trap, directed by M Night Shyamalan.
Filmography
Hudson & Rex
8.4
Overview:
Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.The Expanse
8.065
Overview:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
8.106
Overview:
Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.Designated Survivor
7.128
Overview:
Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.Warehouse 13
7.664
Overview:
After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical objects. Together, Pete and Myka along with fellow agents Claudia, Steve Jinks and Warehouse caretaker Artie, must recover artifacts from around the globe before they can cause catastrophic damage.Mrs. America
7.4
Overview:
The true story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, aka “the sweetheart of the silent majority.”Trap
6.303
Overview:
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.The Expanse: One Ship
6.9
Overview:
An anthology of short webisodes of The Expanse, all relating to the Doctrine of One Ship - that there is only one ship, and it has countless parts as a single body has countless cells.Pieces of a Woman
7.022
Overview:
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.The Players
NYR
Overview:
Summer. 1994. Emily is cast as the youngest member of an avant garde theatre production. She is immediately entranced by the bohemian lives of her fellow actors and feels like she has found a surrogate family, but as the lines between artistic and personal relationships blur, Emily becomes trapped in the complex power dynamics within the group.The Amityville Curse
4.7
Overview:
A group of friends purchase an infamous home with the intention of flipping it, only to discover a deadly paranormal presence emanating from within the house.Littlemouth
NYR
Overview:
It tells the story of a computer scientist who is recruited by a tech billionaire to work on a project that could change humanity's place in the universe.Christmas Beneath the Stars
4.3
Overview:
Christmas blogger and aspiring photographer Hannah Reed just got the assignment of a lifetime; visit a charming town and Christmas wonderland called Christmas World in Alaska which will allow her to photograph the Northern Lights and maybe finally get published in her favorite nature magazine.Christmas Plus One
6.3
Overview:
When sisters Cara and Amy make a pact to find their soulmates by next Christmas, they’re not expecting to be so successful! One year later, Amy’s winter wedding approaches and Cara finally finds her own perfect man, inviting him as her plus one. But after immediately losing his number, all hope is lost. Will she find him in time to make her Christmas wish come true? Or does love have other plans for Cara?Cradle to Grave
9
Overview:
Through our subject Adam, we reveal the incredible changes and forces that take all humankind from Cradle to Grave.Acting
TBALittlemouth as Mother
2025The Players as Rose
2024Trap as Tour Manager
2023The Amityville Curse as Debbie Klein
2022Christmas Plus One as Amy
2022Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (1 Episode) as Harper
2021The Expanse: One Ship (1 Episode) as Michio
2021Christmas Beneath the Stars as Gretta
2020Pieces of a Woman as Linda
2020Mrs. America (1 Episode) as Shirley MacLaine
2019We Had It Coming as Unknown
2019Hudson & Rex (1 Episode) as Briane Peters
2017Cradle to Grave as Alice (25-42)
2016Designated Survivor (1 Episode) as Reporter
2015The Expanse (13 Episodes) as Michio
2012Bath Salts as Unknown
2009Warehouse 13 (1 Episode) as Coat Check Girl