Years active: 2006 - present (started around 21 years old; 18 years in the business)
About Elysia Rotaru
Crystal Elysia Lorraine Rotaru is a Canadian actress known for playing Taiana Venediktov in Arrow.
Rotaru was born in Vancouver to Romanian parents and is fluently bilingual in English and Romanian dialects. From a young age she took dance classes and was involved in school plays as well as piano recitals. She enrolled at Simon Fraser University for a career in psychology, but in the middle of the program, she changed to theater, earning a degree in Fine Arts with a specialty in Theater. She also studied traditional Chinese medicine.
Rotaru debuted in 2008 as a guest star on an episode of the USA Network series, Psych, this was followed by appearances in television series such as Eureka of SyFy and Smallville and Supernatural on The CW. In 2010, Rotaru gets a recurring role in Hellcats, where she played Betsy. She also starred in the film Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules where she played Ingrid.
