Birth nameKaryn Elizabeth Dwyer Birth informationCorner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada BioKaryn Dwyer starred in Better Than Chocolate (1999), one of Canada's top films at the international box office. Better Than Chocolate (1999) ranked 31 on The Hollywood Reporter's list of best independent films that year, won numerous awards at international film festivals, and earned Karyn a loyal cult following. This Newfoundland native has gone on to play a diverse array of roles, large and small, in independent films. Karyn got her start in theater at age 10 when she starred in Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador's production of Alice In Wonderland and went on to become a theater veteran by the time she graduated from high school. She turned down a scholarship to study journalism at the prestigious Carleton University in Ottawa. Instead, she made the long hike from Newfoundland to Toronto to attend theater school. Her first film role was acting opposite David Cronenberg in the Canadian cult classic Boozecan (1994). She went on to work with Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell in 'Lorne Michael's Superstar (1999) as well as Jon Voight, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Dianne Wiest, and Carrie-Anne Moss, to name a few. Later she gave gritty performances in Pony (2002) and Dying Like Ophelia (2002)(Bravo! Network) by two time Governor General Award-winning playwright, Judith Thompson. Karyn played to sold out audiences opposite, R.H. Thompson, in Exercises In Depravity. She played Juliet in Native Earth's Romeo and Juliet, Sooze in Eric Bogosian's Suburbia, wrote and starred in her one woman show Bad Girls at The Rivoli, and played Phoebe in As You Like It for the internationally acclaimed theater festival DuMaurier World Stage opposite Albert Schultz. The oldest of five siblings, Karyn lost her father to cancer when she was 9 and later her brother died at the age of 24. Before returning to her acting career, she devoted several years advocating programs to fight her brother's illness. In 2006 she was voted one of the Top Ten Hottest Canadians as well as one of the Top Ten Hottest Redheads in the World. She resides in Los Angeles.