Tara Spencer-Nairn

Heralded by TV Guide as "one of Canada's Top Ten Superstars", Tara is familiar to viewers for her breakthrough performance in the highly acclaimed feature film New Waterford Girl.

Tara garnered rave reviews for her portrayal of the pugnacious "Lou", the Bronx raised teenager who moves to a small Nova Scotia town and quickly turns it on its ear.

Tara was chosen to play Wayne Gretzky's sister Kim in the made for TV movie Waking Up Wally, a drama based on the best-selling biography Walter Gretzky: On Family, Hockey and Healing, and has appeared in numerous television productions including ReGenisis, Puppets Who Kill, Blue Murder, Wes Craven Presents: Don't Look Down, Cold Squad, Tom Stone and Relic Hunter.

She has also starred in The Third Eye, an independent psychological thriller, as well as the romantic comedy Password, a short film in which she plays the female lead.

The high-energy actress was born in Montreal and raised on the West Coast where she spent 12 years as a competitive gymnast.

She is a graduate of the prestigious Shawnigan Lake School, which she attended after her rebellious nature resulted in her being "asked to leave" another private school.

Tara is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School, a resident of Toronto and the youngest of three siblings.

Karen Pelly

Using your photo radar gun to check out how fast the birds are flying is just one of the ways to kill time while keeping the peace in Dog River.

Tara Spencer-Nairn joins fellow actor Lorne Cardinal ("Davis") to make up Dog River's two-person police force. Television has not seen a team of peacekeepers like this since the days of Toody and Muldoone (Car 54 Where are You?)