Jaime Ray Newman (born April , ) is an American actress, producer and
singer. She is known for starring as Kristina Cassadine in the soap
opera General Hospital, Mindy O'Dell in the drama series Veronica
Mars, Kat Gardener in the fantasy series Eastwick, Lt. Laura Cadman in
the science-fiction series Stargate Atlantis, Tess Fontana in the
science-fiction series Eureka, Kat Petrova in the drama-thriller
series Red Widow, Sam Gordon in the comedy-drama series Mind Games,
Allison Roth in the crime drama series Wicked City, and Sarah
Lieberman in the Marvel series The Punisher.Along with her husband Guy
Nattiv, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in
for producing the drama Skin ().Newman was born in Farmington Hills,
Michigan, to a Jewish family. to parents Marsha Jo and Raphael Newman.
She has one sister, Beth Nicole, a global public relations director at
J Brand. Newman started performing at age eleven in the debut of
Israel Horovitz's play A Rosen by Any Other Name. She worked
consistently around Detroit, acting in many of the regional theaters.
Newman received her elementary education at the Jewish Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit, where she starred as Ado Annie Carnes
in an eighth-grade play of Oklahoma!.After Hillel, Newman attended the
private Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and
spent her summers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts where she won
the Corson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting. While in high
school at Cranbrook, she won first place in the Michigan
Interscholastic Forensic Association, a statewide dramatic
competition, for three years in a row. At age , Newman founded Apollo
Theatre Productions, serving as both a producer and director. She
graduated from Cranbrook in . Newman then attended Boston University
College of Fine Arts' theater conservatory for two years, before
transferring to Northwestern University as an English and drama major.
singer. She is known for starring as Kristina Cassadine in the soap
opera General Hospital, Mindy O'Dell in the drama series Veronica
Mars, Kat Gardener in the fantasy series Eastwick, Lt. Laura Cadman in
the science-fiction series Stargate Atlantis, Tess Fontana in the
science-fiction series Eureka, Kat Petrova in the drama-thriller
series Red Widow, Sam Gordon in the comedy-drama series Mind Games,
Allison Roth in the crime drama series Wicked City, and Sarah
Lieberman in the Marvel series The Punisher.Along with her husband Guy
Nattiv, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in
for producing the drama Skin ().Newman was born in Farmington Hills,
Michigan, to a Jewish family. to parents Marsha Jo and Raphael Newman.
She has one sister, Beth Nicole, a global public relations director at
J Brand. Newman started performing at age eleven in the debut of
Israel Horovitz's play A Rosen by Any Other Name. She worked
consistently around Detroit, acting in many of the regional theaters.
Newman received her elementary education at the Jewish Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit, where she starred as Ado Annie Carnes
in an eighth-grade play of Oklahoma!.After Hillel, Newman attended the
private Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and
spent her summers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts where she won
the Corson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting. While in high
school at Cranbrook, she won first place in the Michigan
Interscholastic Forensic Association, a statewide dramatic
competition, for three years in a row. At age , Newman founded Apollo
Theatre Productions, serving as both a producer and director. She
graduated from Cranbrook in . Newman then attended Boston University
College of Fine Arts' theater conservatory for two years, before
transferring to Northwestern University as an English and drama major.
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