So I had to check the spam box to see if anything had been sent about the great 28-year-old Athena Karkanis who graduated McGill before launching into a magnificent career as a professional thespian.
Shockingly, nothing!
Karkanis has a wide variety of accomplishments before the camera but perhaps none as dramatic and moving and touching as the turn she took on the Transporter TV series. (You're not stretching this nonsense out just so you could have text all the way down that very long photo you posted on the left, are you? - Chimples).
If you don't know the Transporter TV series it's an odd international production done with tons of CGI and actors from Belgium, at least that's where I think they're from because most of them talk English with a thick accent like Detective Clouseau.
Karkanis was apparently born in Alberta, raised in Toronto, moved to Montreal to attend McGill and then lived in Cairo for a couple of years.
Seriously don't ask her about it if you're sitting next to her on the bus cuz I'm sure it'd take your whole afternoon just to figure it out.
So on The Transporter City of Love episode she holds a knife to our dashing protagonist who seems to think it's made of rubber because he doesn't mind one bit having it next to his throat like 30 times.
Athena, as Mauga, runs a gang of hoods which include her brother who is a terrorist bent on putting a bomb in the Gare du Nord.
(You seriously are just typing to fill that space, aren't you?-Chimples) The fast-driving Transporter gets there in time to defuse the bomb by driving it into a big fancy disposal truck.
My favourite part of the episode is when they show a car crash without actually showing the cars colliding, they just show an airbag popping up inside the car. I bet that saved on body work.
So in the crucial scene Mauga pleads with her brother not to set off the bomb but then gets caught in the crossfire, leading to an exquisite ballet of slow dying, she pulls off one of the great slow death scenes back since Charleton Heston used to die at the end of every movie.
Our hero cradles her until her death, tells her to relax and don't worry, helluva thing to say to someone on their death bed, cuz that, is definitely a time to worry.
So her then gently puts her down after she died and neglects to close her eyes up, which is what a gentleman does in those circumstances according to the book of male etiquette that I just got off Ebay.
So congrats to Ms. Karkanis, a true rising star of Montreal acting.