Karen Glave is a Canadian actress who grew up, just outside of Montreal, in Chateauguay, Quebec. She studied acting at George Brown Theatre School in Toronto, Canada and, since graduating, has been cast in numerous film and television roles. Her first real break was to be cast in the USA Network's Ms. Scrooge (1997), directed by John Korty and starring Cicely Tyson as "Ebenita Scrooge". She played the young Ebenita in flashbacks. She then went on to act, opposite Courtney B. Vance and Charles S. Dutton in the Showtime original movie, Blind Faith (1998), directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, Don McKellar's Last Night (1998), and was directed again by Ernest Dickerson, opposite Mandy Patinkin, in Showtime's Strange Justice (1999). She has gone on to work in films, such as The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Dream House (2011), as well as television series, such as Lost Girl (2010), Warehouse 13 (2009) (2013), Suits (2011) (2013) and Guillermo del Toro's new series, The Strain (2014).