Carri Toivanen
- Actress
Carri Toivanen is a TV, film, theatre and voice actor with a love of both comedy and drama. She's worked on shows for networks including Hallmark, NBC, The CW and Fox, as well as several indie productions. She has also voiced numerous commercials, corporate and educational online videos, video games and an audio book, as well as acting for motion capture projects. She performed her first on-stage lead role in 2019 with United Players of Vancouver, for which she learned a British RP accent.
Carri has trained in Vancouver and New York City, including graduating from Capilano University with an acting diploma and the summer conservatory program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts - New York. She spent most of her childhood in northern Alberta before making her way to the west coast. She is of Slovak, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish descent.
Though her working acting journey started later in life, she began finding her way to a love of stories early in life with dance, singing, and theatre training, and in some of her very first jobs including at a movie theatre concession, a video store, backstage at a dinner theatre (where she was dresser to legendary guest stars such as Loretta Swit and Alan Young), and a career in writing.
Carri is based out of Vancouver.
Carri has trained in Vancouver and New York City, including graduating from Capilano University with an acting diploma and the summer conservatory program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts - New York. She spent most of her childhood in northern Alberta before making her way to the west coast. She is of Slovak, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish descent.
Though her working acting journey started later in life, she began finding her way to a love of stories early in life with dance, singing, and theatre training, and in some of her very first jobs including at a movie theatre concession, a video store, backstage at a dinner theatre (where she was dresser to legendary guest stars such as Loretta Swit and Alan Young), and a career in writing.
Carri is based out of Vancouver.
