Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cassandra Sawtell started acting
professionally at the age of six. It was her kindergarten drama teacher
who first noticed her natural acting abilities and it was soon after a
summer acting class that her career started to take shape.
Within a year of signing with an agent, Cassandra tested for major
studio projects including Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man", and the CBS
hit show "Medium". Her credits include a lead role in the Lifetime
movie entitled "Imaginary Playmate", a guest starring role on the
series "Psych", and a prominent role opposite Colin Farrell in the
highly anticipated movie "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus".
Cassandra's character of Madison in the hit CBS series "Harper's
Island", a 13-episode murder mystery, showed the true talent of this
young actress, scaring viewers with an all-knowing aura and lending her
voice to the show's tagline "One by one....".
She is fluent in French, studies Mandarin Chinese and Russian, and recently completed her First Class Honours, Bachelor of Laws at the University of Edinburgh.