Luisa D'Oliveira (born October 6, 1986) is a Canadian actress. She began her career in 2007, guest-starring in shows such as Supernatural and Psych. She is best known for her role as Emori on the post-apocalyptic science fiction television series The 100. She also had roles as Agabelle in the comedy-drama film 50/50 (2011), as Aphrodite Girl in the 2010 fantasy film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and as Detective Poppy Wisnefski in the Canadian police crime drama Cracked (2013).
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Early life
Luisa D'Oliveira was born on October 6, 1986, in Vancouver, British Columbia. She acted and performed in several student films. She attended Capilano University for a full year, studying science, and then switched to arts for her second year. Afterwards, she returned to acting, saying, "it just wasn't creative enough for me, I found my way back to acting pretty quickly".
She has Portuguese, Chinese, French, Scottish and Irish ancestry.
Personal life
D'Oliveira was raised in a Catholic household, but she no longer considers herself religious.
She played the piano and the guitar as a child.
She frequently worked in restaurants and bars to support herself while pursuing her acting career.
She has been married to musician Jez Dylan Bonham since November 6, 2023.
Career
D'Oliveira's television debut was in Supernatural, an American dark fantasy TV series where she portrayed Jenny, a high school student attending a Halloween party. She subsequently appeared in multiple guest-starring roles, including Sissy in the comedy-drama series Psych. She then played Paloma in the American-Canadian action and drama TV film Storm Seekers, Sandra Pai in the CBS political drama The Good Wife, and Meredith in The CW's cheerleading comedy-drama Hellcats.
Between 2010 and 2012, D'Oliveira made minor appearances in feature films such as the fantasy film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and the American drama 50/50, among other television roles.
In 2012, D'Oliveira obtained her first major leading role in the CBC drama TV series Cracked, which aired in 2013, where she played Poppy Wisnefski, a young, distrustful detective focused on crimes involving psychiatric conditions. She stated that this was her most challenging role up to that point, where she dealt with the "engaged but detached" demeanor that her character masked. After that, in 2014, she guest-starred in the Canadian police drama Rookie Blue as Essie. A year later, she had a role in the film Into the Grizzly Maze, portraying Zoe, an officer facing a rogue grizzly.
That same year, she secured a recurring role as Maria Snow for the third season of the CTV police procedural drama series Motive, appearing in a nine-episode arc. Her performance in the show earned her a nomination for the 2016 Leo Awards for Best Guest Performance by a Female in a Dramatic Series. D'Oliveira praised series lead Kristin Lehman, stating that she learned a lot by watching her in action and that Lehman served as an example of who she wanted to become.
