Kari Samantha Wuhrer (born on April 28, 1967 in Brookfield, Connecticut) is an American actress and singer who began her career as a teenager and is best known for her roles as Maggie Beckett in the television series Sliders, Sheriff Samantha Parker in the horror comedy film Eight Legged Freaks, Denise Kalberg in the first Anaconda movie, and Ellen Brody in Sharknado 2: The Second One.
Wuhrer is also a voice actress who is known for voicing Maria Hill in the very popular Marvel animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and reprised her role as the character in the video game Marvel Heroes. She has also voiced Black Canary in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and the Silver Banshee in Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem.
Notable roles:
- Maria Hill in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Marvel Heroes.
- Sliders: Maggie Beckett
- Malevolent (2002): Jessica Tarrant
- Eight Legged Freaks: Sheriff Samantha Parker
- Sharknado 2: The Second One: Ellen Brody
- Anaconda: Denise Kalberg
- Thinner: Gina Lempke
- Hellraiser: Deader: Amy Klein
- Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time: Jackie Trent
- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths: Black Canary and Model Citizen
- Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem: Silver Banshee
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Agent Tanya
- Stargate Atlantis: Nancy Sheppard
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: Pamela Isley and Barbara Eileen Gordon
- Berserker: Anya/Brunhilda
- Sensation: Lila Reed
Tropes:
- Ms. Fanservice: One almost suspects that she puts a clause in her contracts to include at least one nude scene in her movies. A lot of them were of the type that would air on late night Cinemax.