Born:
July 30, 1982
in
Werrington Downs, Sydney, Australia
Best Known For:
Playing Hannah McKay in Dexter.
Early-life:
Born Yvonne Jaqueline Strzechowski on July 30, 1982 in Werrington Downs, Sydney, Australia. Yvonne started acting lessons at age 12 and went to Santa Sabina College, Strathfield for her high school years. She graduated from University of Western Sydney's Theatre Nepean in 2003 before co-founding a theatre company.
Career:
Strahovski's first TV role was in an episode of Double the Fist: Fear Factory and her second was in several episodes of Headland, both of which aired on Australian TV. She made her feature film debut in Gone (2006), which caught the attention of casting directors in Hollywood. Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Strahovski landed her breakthrough role as Sarah Walker in the series Chuck. She voiced Miranda Lawson in the video games Mass Effect Galaxy, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 and had her face scanned and animated so that she could portray the character. Following this, she appeared in the films Killer Elite (2011) and The Guilt Trip (2012) before playing Hannah McKay in the TV series Dexter. In 2014, she played Kate Morgan in the TV series 24: Live Another Day, Rene Carpenter in The Astronaut Wives Club and Terra Wade in I, Frankenstein. Since then, she has appeared in the film Manhattan Night (2016), voiced Batwoman in the animated film Batman: Bad Blood (2016) and been part of the main cast in TV series The Handmaid's Tale.
Quote:
'I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.'
Trivia:
She can speak fluent Polish and her parents are both Polish.