JANAYA STEPHENS

Janaya Lynn Stephens (born March 17, 1974, in London, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress raised in a small southwestern Ontario town. She excelled in sports in high school, played varsity basketball at Laurentian University where she also studied English and drama (starring as Juliet in a production of Romeo & Juliet), and later trained at the George Brown Theatre School in Toronto. She made her screen debut in 1996 on Lexx and Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science (1997).