You're breathing.' 'We were 13 and didn't know how to pace ourselves,' she says, 'so we'd hyperventilate and black out.' She went on to breathe normally in starring roles as Supergirl in Smallville and as alien royalty in the short-lived but highly praised sci-fi series V. On Goosebumps, in which she played a girl trapped in a board game, the only instruction she was given was 'You're worried. Soon after, the Toronto native lived through something even more harrowing: child acting.
As a kid, she survived a bout with meningitis. Twenty-seven-year-old Laura Vandervoort was born tough. The other guy says, 'They're all at the funeral.' The guy asks, 'Couldn't you have invited a friend?' He asks the guy seated next to it why, and he says, 'It was my wife's, but she died.' But First, a Joke*! (Up There, and Right Here.)Ī guy sees an empty seat at the Stanley Cup finals.