Emily Tennant is a Canadian actress from Vancouver, British Columbia, who has been active in the entertainment industry since the early 2000s.
She initially gained recognition for her role as Ivy Young, a school reporter, in the teen sitcom "Mr. Young" from 2011 to 2013. She then went on to have a recurring role in the romantic drama "Cedar Cove" from 2013 to 2015, playing the character Cecilia Rendall, an old friend of regular character Justine Lockhart.
Tennant's early career consisted of bit parts in television, starting with an unnamed language student in an episode of the science fiction series "Dark Angel" in 2000. She then appeared in the horror comedy film "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" in 2004, playing a younger version of Daphne Blake, which earned 181.2 million dollars at the worldwide box office.
In 2004, Tennant gained her first recurring role in the horror series "Kingdom Hospital", developed by Stephen King, where she portrayed Mona Klingerman, a patient who suffered brain damage at the hands of incompetent neurosurgeon Dr. Stegman.
In the mid-2010s, Tennant had a recurring role in the comic science fiction series "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", an adaptation of a novel series by Douglas Adams, where she played the Beast, a female humanoid creature from the alternate dimension of Wendimoor.
Tennant also had a recurring role in the superhero series "Marvel Super Hero Adventures" from 2017 to 2020, portraying the superheroine Ghost Spider/Gwen Stacy.
In 2018, she gained her first major voice role in the animated fantasy series "Polly Pocket", where she played Polly Pocket herself, a child genius who could change her own size due to a magical locket. As of 2022, four seasons of the series had been completed.
Tennant has also had guest star roles in the fantasy series "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" in 2019, playing scientific researcher and explorer Mane Allgood, the estranged mother of regular character Scootaloo, and in the animated series "Johnny Test" in 2021, taking over the role of adolescent inventor Mary Test, one of the protagonist's older sisters.
By 2022, Tennant was 32 years old, having been a working actress for more than 20 years, and has become a well-known voice actress, with some of her older roles still having their own cult following. She shows no signs of retiring yet.
