Alaina Huffman Quotes

Alaina Huffman — Canadian Actress born on April 17, 1980,

Alaina Huffman is a Canadian film and television actress, also known professionally as Alaina Kalanj (her birth name). She is known for the Canadian television series Painkiller Jane, where she played the character Maureen Bowers. She also played Dinah Lance/Black Canary on Smallville, as well as 1st Lt. Tamara Johansen in Stargate Universe, where she was a regular cast member. She played Abaddon in Supernatural... (wikipedia)

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.

To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood - and to watch fluctuations of ups and downs is difficult. She did mainly television, so I think I associated that with a life of inconsistency. As I've come into my own, I realize it has nothing to do with the medium.

The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.

I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.