Alaina Kalanj (also known as Alaina Huffman) (born April 17, 1980), is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for the television series ''

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'', where she played the character Maureen Bowers. She played Dinah Lance / Black Canary in the TV series '' Smallville'', and 1st Lt. Tamara Johansen in '' Stargate Universe'', where she was a regular cast member. She played the part of the demon Abaddon in the American dark-fantasy television series ''

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Biography

Huffman was born Alaina Kalanj in

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, British Columbia, Canada. She is of Croatian descent. At the age of 13, she went to her first audition for a Fox Family Channel pilot, where she was offered the main role. A scout for a modeling agency instead recruited Huffman, and she was set to model in high fashion runways in Europe and Japan for the following years. When her parents moved to

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, she saw the opportunity to live in the United States and enroll in college, leaving modeling behind. While in school, she took on acting roles in a series of independent films. Eventually she moved to Los Angeles, where she added more television credits to her resume. Alaina has four children with ex-husband John Huffman: sons Elijah and Lincoln, and daughters Hanna and Charley-Jane. While pregnant with Charley-Jane, she was acting in the first season of ''Stargate Universe'', so the pregnancy was written into the plot.

Filmography

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