Heather Doerksen flew onto the silver screen in the mega monster movie Pacific Rim, produced by Warner Brothers & Legendary Pictures and directed by the man behind The Shape of Water, Academy Award winner, Guillermo del Toro.
Heather has already had a dynamic career, always making sure to show off her best feature: her versatility. She has appeared in an array of feature films, such as Tim Burton's Big Eyes and Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods;as well as Marmaduke alongside William H Macy; The Day the Earth Stood Still opposite Kathy Bates; The Client List beside Jennifer Love Hewitt; and DreamWorks’ The Uninvited. She has shown up on the small screen too, playing recurring roles on the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; CW’s Smallville; and on SyFy's Battlestar Galactica.
She continues to maintain a strong connection to the independent film world, acting in Indie Jonesing (Best International Feature at the Indie Spirit Film Festival); Ambrosia; The Circle; and the Leo Award-winning fable Alchemy and Other Imperfections for which she also received a Leo Award nomination for Best Performance.
Heather also has a flourishing voice career, lending her voice to numerous advertising campaigns, as well as cartoon series LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles as the iconic Princess Leia; Dreamworks’ Dinotrux (which she received a Leo-award nomination for); Death Note; and the animated Barbie movies.
Initially studying Science, Heather changed her major to Theatre, receiving a BFA from Simon Fraser University, where she appeared on stage in Antigone; The Cherry Orchard; Big Love; and Hedda Gabler. Upon graduation, she formed a company called Genus Theatre with five of her school colleagues, and co-wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the first four Genus shows, mixing live theatre with film, and setting the stage for her career.
Listen for Heather in Disney's Gigantosaurus, in which she voices the clumsy pteradactyl Hegan, catch her as a matchmaking mother on Hallmark’s Fourth Down and Love, and watch the latest season of LEGO Ninjago, where she voices the orange ninja Skylor.