Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Cassandra Sawtell started acting professionally at the age of six. It was her kindergarten drama teacher who first noticed her natural acting abilities and it was soon after a summer acting class that her career started to take shape.Within a year of signing with an agent, Cassandra tested for major studio projects including Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man", and the CBS hit show "Medium". Her credits include a lead role in the Lifetime movie entitled "Imaginary Playmate", a guest starring role on the series "Psych", and a prominent role opposite Colin Farrell in the highly anticipated movie "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus".Cassandra's character of Madison in the hit CBS series "Harper's Island", a 13-episode murder mystery, showed the true talent of this young actress, scaring viewers with an all-knowing aura and lending her voice to the show's tagline "One by one....".She is fluent in French, studies Mandarin Chinese, is an avid reader and loves animals.