Background
Spiridakos was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Greek-born parents, restaurant owners George and Anastasia Spiridakos. The family moved to her father"s hometown, Skala, Greece near Sparta, a few years after she was born, and returned to Canada in 1992.
Education
Spiridakos began acting in junior high school, and studied at the Actors Training Centre of Manitoba. She graduated from Oak Park High School in Winnipeg in 2000.
Career
She starred as Becky Richards on the Teletoon children"s comedy series Majority Rules! from 2009–2010. She then starred as Charlotte "Charlie" Matheson on the National Broadcasting Company post-apocalyptic science fiction series Revolution from 2012–2014, for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on. She played Annika Johnson on the A&East television drama Bates Motel.
She has two brothers.
She strongly identifies with her Greek heritage and speaks fluent Greek. Spiridakos moved to Vancouver in 2007 to pursue acting, and within weeks landed her first television role, a small part on Supernatural.
She continued working in television, with walk-on roles on Bionic Woman, The L Word, Hellcats, and Psychology. Spiridakos appeared in the television movie Goblin, and the web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy.
She also had a recurring role on Being Human as werewolf Brynn McLean.
She made her feature film debut in 2011 with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and filmed the low-budget thriller, Kill Foreign Maine, with Donal Logue and Katie Cassidy. Spiridakos appeared as Sammi in the 2012 Nickelodeon original movie, Rags. She then landed a lead role on the National Broadcasting Company television series Revolution as Charlotte "Charlie" Matheson, a survivalist in a dystopian future civilization.
She auditioned for the role while attending her first pilot season in Los Los Angeles
Spiridakos shot the pilot in Atlanta, and filmed the first season in Wilmington, North Carolina. She was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on for her performance in the first season, losing out to Fringe"s Anna Torv.
Production moved to Austin, Texas for the series" second season. Spiridakos guest starred on season 3 of the Showtime sitcom, Episodes, as Dawn, a daughter of character Morning Randolph (Mircea Monroe).
In August 2014, Spiridakos helped to raise awareness of the disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by participating in the Ice Bucket Challenge.
Spiridakos began a recurring role on the A&East television drama, Bates Motel in 2015, playing Annika Johnson, a prostitute who arrives at the hotel at the start of the third season. She will also star opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the romantic comedy Byrd & the Bees, directed by Finola Hughes. Spiridakos filmed an untitled television pilot for Columbia Broadcasting System in 2015, directed by Pamela Fryman.