Chandra West

Chandra K. West (born December 31, 1970) is a Canadian actress.

Chandra West
Born	(1970-12-31) December 31, 1970 (age 53) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Mark Tinker ​ (m. 2005)​

Early life and education

West was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the youngest of eight children. The family moved to Oak Bay, British Columbia, where she attended Monterey Elementary for three years. The family moved to Oakville, Ontario, where West spent the majority of her youth. When she was 17, West attended a summer acting camp located in Oxford, England. She later went on to study in the Theater Performance Program at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.^[1][2]

Career

West's career began in 1991 when she played a small part in the film True Confections, a 1950s conservative drama about a woman with an ahead-of-her-time awareness. West followed her screen debut with a smaller role in the 1993 miniseries The Secrets of Lake Success.

West appeared in three consecutive films; the first as the female-lead in Puppet Master 4 (1993), then a smaller role as Miss Germany in the action film No Contest (1994) also starring Robert Davi and Roddy Piper, and in the same year, reprising her role as Susie in Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter (1994). The closing months of 1994 and most of 1995 saw West return to television with appearances in Madonna: Innocence Lost (1994), Catwalk (1995), Falling for You (1995) and the role of Mariel Hemingway in Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story (1995).

Her other film roles of the late 1990s include Veronica Roberts in Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms (1998) and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business (1998).^[3][4][5]

Her film breakthrough came when she starred as Val Kilmer's wife in the 2002 D. J. Caruso crime thriller, The Salton Sea. Following the moderate success of The Salton Sea, West was exposed to a wider market. This role helped her obtain the role of Robin in The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, which was panned critically and deemed a major disappointment despite an all-star cast that included Rosario Dawson and Adam Garcia and a script penned by Jon Favreau.

Her next role was as Laura Chandler in the Emmy-nominated mini-series Mister Sterling (2003). From 2003-2004 she portrayed Dr. Jennifer Devlin, girlfriend of John Clark Jr. (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) in a recurring role on NYPD Blue. She played the wife of Michael Keaton in the 2005 horror film White Noise. She also played novice agent Holly Gribbs in the pilot of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in 2000.^[1] West's more recent performances were in the film Canes (later retitled The Covenant: Brotherhood of Evil), which also starred Edward Furlong and Michael Madsen, and as Tina Blake in the HBO series John From Cincinnati. In 2006, West played the lead character Tracy in the film The Last Trimester. In 2007 she played "Dr. Honey" in the movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. In 2009, she starred as the object of a revenge seeking neighbor in the TV movie My Neighbor's Secret.

West had a lead role in the ABC supernatural drama television series The Gates, which premiered in June 2010.^[6]

In 2011, she appeared in the made-for-TV movie Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, based on the television series Burn Notice.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	True Confections	Carol
1993	Puppet Master 4	Susie	direct-to-video
1994	Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter	Susie	direct-to-video
1995	Night Terrors	Beth
1995	No Contest	Maria, Miss Germany
1999	Something More	Kelly
2000	The Perfect Son	Sarah Parker
2002	The Salton Sea	Liz
2002	The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest	Robin
2003	Water's Edge	Molly Graves
2005	White Noise	Anna Rivers
2005	The Long Weekend	Kim
2006	Canes, retitled The Covenant: Brotherhood of Evil	Lisa Goodman
2006	The Tooth Fairy	Darcy Wagner	direct-to-video
2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry	Dr. Honey
2007	Badland	Oli Danilou
2012	Hidden Moon	Monica Brighton
2014	Christmas Tail	Maggie McPhail
2019	Z	Georgia Cadere
2019	Spiral	Tiffany

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	The Hitchhiker	Girl at Club	Episode: "Strate Shooter"
1992	Beyond Reality	Amanda	Episode: "Master of Darkness"
1992	Forever Knight	Report	Episode: "Dying to Know You"
1993	The Secrets of Lake Success	Jenny Grayson	3 episodes TV miniseries
1994	Lonesome Dove: The Series	Dancing Girl	Episode: "Last Stand"
1994	Highlander: The Series	Donna	Episode: "Line of Fire"
1994	Madonna: Innocence Lost	Kelsey Lee	TV movie
1994	Catwalk	Wendy	Unknown episodes
1995	Road to Avonlea	Greta Steig	Episode: "Comings and Goings"
1995	Falling for You	Julie	TV movie
1995	Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story	Mariel Hemingway	TV movie
1995	Picket Fences	Tina Hunnecker	Episode: "Heart of Saturday Night"
1995	Pointman	Brigid O'Connor	Episode: "Here She Comes, Miss Murder"
1996	A Face to Die For	Sheila Gilmore	TV movie
1996	Kindred: The Embraced	Grace Dugan	Episode: "Live Hard, Die Young... and Leave a Good Looking Corpse"
1996	Viper	Becky	Episode: "Standoff"
1997	Moment of Truth: Into the Arms of Danger	Carly Astin	TV movie
1998	Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms	Veronica Roberts	Television film
1998	Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business		Television film
1999	Seasons of Love	Lucille	2 episodes
1999	Revenge of the Land	Ceilidh Carmichael	TV movie
1999	Earth: Final Conflict	Erica Vosser	2 episodes
2000	The David Cassidy Story	Sue Shifrin	TV movie
2000	The '70s	Elizabeth	TV movie
2000	Life in a Day	Jasmine	TV movie
2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Holly Gribbs	2 episodes
2001	The Waiting Game	Sarah Frazer	TV movie
2001	Jack & Jill	Sarah Weyman	4 episodes
2003	Then Came Jones	Susan	TV movie
2003	Mister Sterling	Laura Chandler	8 episodes
2003-2004	NYPD Blue	Dr. Jennifer Devlin	13 episodes
2004	Dead Lawyers	Elaine	TV movie
2004	Wild Card	Carmen	Episode: "Wham Bam, Thank You Dan"
2004	Category 6: Day of Destruction	Rebecca Kerns	TV miniseries
2005	FBI: Negotiator	Elizabeth Moss	TV movie
2007	The Last Trimester	Tracy	TV movie
2007	John from Cincinnati	Tina Blake	7 episodes
2008	Flashpoint	Rebecca Kessfield	Episode: "Asking for Flowers"
2008	Imaginary Bitches	Chandra	Episode: "Three Bitches Is an Imaginary Crowd: Part 2"
2008	For the Love of Grace	Grace Harlen	TV movie
2008	Of Murder and Memory	Theresa Nichol	TV movie
2008-2009	90210	Gail McKinney	3 episodes
2009	Eleventh Hour	Angie Parks	Episode: "Eternal"
2009	My Neighbor's Secret	Casey	TV movie
2009	Monk	Carolyn Walsh	Episode: "Mr. Monk and Sharona"
2010	Cold Case	Caroline Hargreave (1974)	Episode: "The Runaway Bunny"
2010	Castle	Maggie Vega	Episode: "Suicide Squeeze"
2010	The Gates	Devon	13 episodes
2011	Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe	Donna Maitland	TV movie
2011	Private Practice	Val	Episode: "What We Have Here..."
2013	Played	Detective Sergeant Rebecca Ellis	13 episodes
2014	A Christmas Tail	Maggie McPhail	TV movie
2014	Stalker	Cynthia Walker	Episode: "Tell All"
2015	Rosewood	Kerry Conforth	Episode: "Fireflies and Fidelity"
2017	Seduced by a Stranger (or Ring of Deception)	Julie Stevens	TV movie
2017	Chicago P.D.	FBI Special Agent Jennifer Spencer	Episode: "Fork in the Road"

References

1. "Chandra West: Happy to be alive in latest role". Times Colonist. Archived from the original on 2016-03-24. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
2. "Revive Magazine | Pillow Talk with Chandra West". revivemagazine.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
3. Fraser A. Sherman (7 December 2010). Screen Enemies of the American Way: Political Paranoia About Nazis, Communists, Saboteurs, Terrorists and Body Snatching Aliens in Film and Television. McFarland. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-7864-6225-4.
4. Fraser A. Sherman (24 August 2009). Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Made for Television. McFarland. p. 191. ISBN 978-1-4766-1101-3.
5. Richard B. Armstrong; Mary Willems Armstrong (15 November 2000). Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series. McFarland. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-7864-4572-1.
6. "ABC Announces 2010 Summer Schedule" (Press release). ABC Television Network. April 7, 2010. Archived from the original on April 5, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2010.
7. Blair Marnell (2011-04-19). "Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe Review". CraveOnline.

External links

• Chandra West at IMDb