Yvonne Strahovski is an Australian actress, popular for her roles as CIA agent Sarah Walker in the TV series Chuck (2007-2012), Hannah McKay in Dexter (2012-2013) and CIA agent Kate Morgan in 24: Live Another Day (2014).
Wiki/Biography
Yvonne Strahovski was born on Friday, July 30, 1982 as Yvonne Jacqueline Strzehovski (2020) and her birthplace is Wellington Downs, Australia. Her star sign is Leo. Yvonne has loved acting since she was a child. In an interview, she said:
I took my first drama class when I was 12. I was always making videos and doing little sketches at home.”
Yvonne Strahovski and her mother as a child
She attended St. Sabina’s College in Sydney, Australia. Growing up in a Polish-speaking family, Yvonne never trusted her English vocabulary skills at school. Later, Yvonne’s English teacher, Mrs. Halliday, introduced her to Shakespeare’s plays, literature, poetry and classical novels, subjects in which she excelled. In 2003, she graduated from the Nepean Theatre, Western Sydney University (formerly Western Sydney University) with a degree in acting. While at university, she co-founded a small theatre company called Sauna Productions Theatre, Sydney. After completing her studies, she worked as an actor in Australia for three years before landing the lead role in the American action comedy Chuck (2007).
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 9″
Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Dark blue
Family and Race
Yvonne Strahovski is of Polish descent. Her parents immigrated from Warsaw, Poland, before Yvonne was born.
Parents and siblings
Her father, Peter Strzechowski, was an electronics engineer, and her mother, Bożena Strzechowski, was a laboratory technician.
Relationships, husbands and children
At the 2017 Emmy Awards, Yvonne Strahovski revealed that she had married her longtime boyfriend, actor and producer Tim Roden. Yvonne and Tim have one son, William Roden (born October 2018).
Yvonne Strahovski and her husband attend the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards
Yvonne Strahovski and her son
Profession
television
Since her television debut as Suzy in Two Fists (2004), she has appeared in many television series such as The Cape (2005), Sea Patrol (2007) and the television film Black Jack: Memories of Death (2006). She came into the limelight after playing the role of CIA agent Sarah Walker in the American spy drama Chuck & Chuck (2007). In the series, Sarah Walker is assigned by the CIA to protect Chuck Bartowski after he unknowingly downloads the secret contents of a government computer called Intersect into his brain.
Yvonne Strahovski, Chuck (2007)
She rose to fame for her role as serial killer Hannah McKay, the love interest of lead actor Dexter Morgan, in Showtime’s Dexter (2012).
Yvonne Strahovski, Dexter (2012)
She received great appreciation for her role as the lead role of CIA agent Kate Morgan in the film 24: Live Another Day (2014).
Yvonne Strahovski in 24: Live Another Day (2014).
In 2017, Yvonne Strahovski starred in the critically acclaimed television series The Handmaid’s Tale, in which she played the villain Serena Joy Watford, the wife of Commander Watford, who uses the handmaids to get a child when Serena is unable to conceive. For her role as Serena Joy Watford, Yvonne has been nominated for several prestigious awards such as the Primetime Emmy Award (2018), Golden Globe Award (2019), and Screen Actors Guild Award (2018-2020).
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid’s Tale (2017)
In 2020, she played Sofie Werner, an Australian flight attendant who was arrested and detained along with asylum seekers, in the Australian TV series Stateless.
Yvonne Strahovski, Stateless (2020)
Movie
Yvonne Strahovski made her screen debut as Sandra in the film Gone Girl (2007). In 2011, she played the role of Anne Fraser in the film Killer Elite. In 2014, she played Dr. Tara Wade, a famous electrophysiologist hired by Naberius to study the resurrection of the dead, in the science fiction film I, Frankenstein.
Yvonne Strahovski, I, Frankenstein (2014)
In 2016, she starred in the American crime thriller Manhattan Nights, in which she played the role of Caroline Crowley, who recruits a New York tabloid writer to investigate her husband’s cold case.
Manhattan Nights (2016)
As a voice actor
Yvonne Strahovski began her voice acting career by voicing Peg Mooring in the Danish-American animated film Lego: A Magical Adventure (2010). She later provided voice acting in the films Outback (2012) and Batman: Bad Blood (2016).
other works
Strahovski’s likeness was used to portray the character of Miranda Lawson in the video game series Mass Effect (2009-2013). Yvonne made her Broadway debut in the title role of “Lorna Moon” in Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy (1964), for which she won a Theatre World Award (2013).
Awards/Honors
- Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Action TV Actress (2010) for Chuck (2007)
- TV Guide Award (2011) for Favorite Actress for the TV series Chuck (2007)
- With Zachary Levi in the TV series Chuck (2007) Won the TV Guide Award for “Favorite Couple”
- Saturn Award for Best Guest Actor in a Television Series for the TV series Dexter (2013)
- Australian Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (2020) for Best Actress in a Television Series for Stateless (2020)
Facts/Trivia
- For ease of pronunciation, Yvonne adopted the phonetic spelling of “Strahovski” instead of “Strzechowski” as her stage name.
- Hollywood star Tom Hanks was Yvonne’s idol in high school. In addition, the movies starring Tom Hanks, “Turner & Hoch” (1989) and “Suburgatory” (1989) are also her favorite movies. In an interview, she said:
I was obsessed with Tom Hanks. He was my idol in high school. Everyone else had pictures of Brad Pitt all over their textbooks, but I was the weirdo who had Tom Hanks.”
- In an interview, she revealed that she had worn a nose piercing for five years and that upon close inspection, the hole was still visible.
- Yvonne loves animals so much that she starred in a commercial for PETA with the tagline “Adopt, Never Buy”.
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