Alaina Huffman

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Alaina Kalanj (born April 17, 1980), also known as Alaina Huffman, is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for the television series Painkiller Jane, where she played the character Maureen Bowers. She also 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 also played the demon Abaddon in the American dark fantasy television series Supernatural.

​​Biography

Huffman was born Alaina Kalanj in Vancouver, Canada as. She is of Croatian descent. At the age of 13, she went to her first audition for a Fox Family Channel pilot. Despite the competition, she was offered the main role. However, a model scout 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 Dallas, Texas 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 her ex-husband John Huffman: sons Elijah and Lincoln, and daughters Hanna and Charley-Jane. Charley-Jane was born December 8, 2009. The latter pregnancy coincided with the first season of Stargate Universe, and was written into the plot. She announced on Twitter that she had given birth to Lincoln, on December 15, 2011.