Kari Matchett was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan which is a small village in Canada. Her date of birth is 25 March 1970, which makes her age 46 years. She did her high schooling from Lethbridge Collegiate Institute in Alberta. At an early age, she became obsessed with S.E. Hinton's novels primarily the Outsiders. Her desire for acting started when she learned that the very novel that she liked was going to be turned into a movie. Later she enrolled at the Moscow Theatre School and the National Theatre School in Montreal. She also performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival which is held in Ontario for three straight years.
The Rez, a Canadian TV series was the show that gave her first break as an actress. She then-after starred as Colleen Blessed in Power play in the year 1998. On the A&E Network TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery, she played different characters but she played as Lily Rowan most often than others. She played as Beth on Wonderfellas in which she was a bisexual. Her major role came in 2002 when she played as Kate Filmore in a horror science fiction thriller named Cube 2: Hypercube. In 2003 she starred in Five Days To Midnight with Timothy Hutton. This show was aired on SyFy which was formerly named the sci-fi channel. She played Detective Elaine Bender in Blue Murder which aired in 2004.
She won the prestigious Gemini Award for starring as a guest star in blue murder in 2001. Matchett acted in the ABC series, Invasion in 2005. This series was about aliens who took the form of humans. The same year she starred in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as Mary Tete. She acted in Shark and Wild Card as well. In Intimate Stranger which released in 2006, she played a single mother who was stalked by her boyfriend. She starred with Peter Krause in Civic Duty the same year. She joined the cast of 24 in the year 2007 as Lisa Miller. The same year she played Kate Armstrong in TNT series Heartland. In 2007 and 2008 she played Skye Wexler on ER. She played as Jules in the tv series Crash in 2008 and 2009. Crash was a critically acclaimed tv show which aired on Starz.
She later worked with Timothy Hutton in TNT series Leverage in which she played Maggie Collins, this was their 3rd time working together. The biggest film that she starred in is The Tree Of Life. This film premiered at The Cannes Film Festival in 2011.
According to her biography, She married T. W. Peacocke a Canadian tv and film director in 1998 but after 8 years she divorced her husband. She didn't have any children with him. Currently, she is in a relationship with James Allodi who is also an actor with whom she had her first child Jude Lyon Matchett. Her net worth is estimated to be about $3 million. She hasn't written her bio yet but she's certain that at some point in life she will write one.
Kari Matchett is currently active on TV doing shows like Covert Affairs and some others. Although her movie career is not going as the way she hoped for it hasn't stopped her from trying out small roles and working her way up the ladder, for which she should be applauded.
| Birth Date: | 25 Mar, 1970 |
| Age: | 50 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Film actor |
| Citizenship: | Canada |
| Birth Place: | Spalding |
| Education: | National Theatre School of Canada |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | Canadian actress |
| Twitter Id: | TheKariMatchett |
| Net Worth 2021: | 3 million |
