Luvia Petersen was raised in Montreal, Canada until the age of 6 when her family relocated to Alberta. After three years her family moved to BC, which is where she lives today.
Luvia showed a strong interest for both athletics and drama while attending high-school in Kelowna, BC. She chose to pursue athletics, which lead her to participating at the provincial level in both rugby and soccer. After a successful run in the world of sports, Luvia chose to revisit her love for acting. She attended a two week program at Vancouver Academy of Dramatic Arts followed by their six month full-time Dramatic Arts Program. Luvia continued training under renowned acting coach Warren Robertson (teacher to Larry Moss) while teaching and coaching at Vancouver Academy of Dramatic Arts. (2004-2010)
Her first professional job came at the age of 25, when she was cast in the Emmy nominated TV series The L-Word (2004-2005). From there Luvia went on to host the first season of the documentary TV series Hot Pink Shorts (2007). She has since appeared in several projects for both Film and TV including, The X-Files (2008), Battlestar Galactica (2009), Reaper (2009), Sanctuary (2010), Endgame (2011), Falling Skies (2012) as well as starring in numerous indie short films.
Luvia is currently working on an original one hour drama-action series called Continuum which is slated to air on Showcase in May 2012.
Along side her acting career, Luvia also owns a successful tattoo studio in Vancouver called Liquid Amber Tattoo.
I stumbled upon your site and just had to comment. I’ve recently watched all of Continuum. You have pulled off the ‘bad ass’ chick perfectly, I completely believe you. Bravo.
(I hope there will be a season two.)
I hope there will be a season 2 as well! Thanks for watching!!
Just like Peter, I’ve just found out about Continuum and watched the first season. Looking forward for the next one (which I’m sure will happen). You really nailed Garza’s role, congratulations! From ep1 I could see you’re as talented as beautiful.
Wish you lots of success.
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Hey, I took just finished watching continuum, and bravo on the part, though im upset they didn’t like the idea of tattoos in 2077.
First of all, you are amazing(as I’m sure you know from the spamming of tweets I send your way). Secondly, you were in Reaper?! I didn’t recognize you, I will have to go back and rematch it. But you just keep doing what you’re doing, beautiful. I hope I get to meet you someday!
OK, I’m slower at TV than the rest – I just recently caught up with Continuum – wow – that show makes me think … and then slams my head into the wall. I love it. (not the wall part)
I agree with Peter, you’ve got that bad–ass part _down_ in the show – but your smile here gives you away. “Acting a little more like myself…” you’re difficult to pin down from this side of the screen.
I hope the show’s not too cerebral – don’t want to say I like it too much, my tastes don’t seem to follow well, but I really want this series to go on and on. I hope to see you in many, many more episodes.