Stefanie von Pfetten
Stefanie Baroness Christina von Pfetten was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of German émigrés from Munich. Drawn to perform from an early age, she began modeling as a teen, and got her first taste of the stage starring in her high school's production of Grease. Stefanie continued her education in Europe, first in Munich (she is multi-lingual, and fluent in German), then at the University of Vienna, where she studied art history while interning at Sotheby’s before returning to Vancouver to formally train in theatre and pursue acting full-time.
Stefanie immediately attracted attention in “Hollywood North” guest-starting on numerous Canadian television shows, and soon nabbed lead roles in several features, ranging from Canadian indie cult-hit Decoys, in which she showed her formidable comedic chops as a villainous, collegiate, extra-terrestrial sex-pot, to dark crime-thriller One Way (Universal), as Til Schweiger's (Inglourious Basterds) unraveling fiance. She was cast to lead CBC's police procedural The Call, as homicide detective Anna Danville, but the series was ultimately not picked up. Undeterred, Stefanie packed her car and struck out for Los Angeles, where she landed roles on The L Word, Eureka, and CSI:Miami, and earned rabid fan-boy devotion as Marcia “Showboat” Case on sorely-missed Battlestar Galactica, before more recent guest-stars on NCIS, and Better Off Ted.
In 2009, Stefanie starred with Rob Lowe in Lifetime's Too Late To Say Goodbye, based on Ann Rule's true-crime bestseller, and in The Killing Machine (2010) opposite acting machine Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables). She has appeared most recently as the goddess Demeter in Chris Columbus' Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief (2010), and has just wrapped Garden of Evil, co-starring with Adrian Pasdar (Heroes), for SyFy.
