They like to cast me for scary roles. I think it`s because they want you to be scared, but also to like the little girl.
Jodelle Micah Ferland (born October 9, 1994 in Nanaimo, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Sharon/Alessa in Silent Hill, Bree in The Twilight Saga, Mary Jensen in Kingdom Hospital, Princess Harmony in Stargate Atlantis and young Adria in Stargate SG-1. Her most notable role is as Five in Dark Matter (2015). She also voiced the Little Sisters in BioShock 2. Her sister Marisha is also an actress.
Her notable roles include:
- Cold Squad (1999) - Hailey Hatcher
- Higher Ground (2000) - Young Juliette
- Dark Angel (2001) - Annabelle
- The Lone Gunmen (2001) - Little Girl
- So Weird (2001) - Maria
- Wolf Lake (2001) - Lily Kelly
- Special Unit 2 (2002) - Focus Group Girl
- John Doe (2002) - Jenny Nichols
- They (2002) - Sarah
- Carrie (2002) - Young Carrie White
- Smallville (2002) - Young Emily Dinsmore
- Dead Like Me (2003) - Kirsti
- Kingdom Hospital (2004) - Mary Jensen
- 10.5 (2004) - Little "Wow" Girl
- The Collector (2004) - The Devil
- Tideland (2005) - Jeliza-Rose
- Supernatural (2006, 2019) - Melanie Merchant, Emily
- Silent Hill (2006) - Sharon da Silva / Alessa Gillespie
- Stargate SG-1 (2006) - Young Adria
- Masters of Horror (2006) - Lisa
- The Messengers (2007) - Michael Rollins
- Seed (2007) - Emily Bishop
- Good Luck Chuck (2007) - Lila
- Blood Rayne II Deliverance (2007) - Sally
- Stargate Atlantis (2008) - Princess Harmony
- Case 39 (2009) - Lilith Sullivan
- BioShock 2 (2010) - The Little Sisters (voice)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) - Bree Tanner
- The Haunting Hour (2011-12) - Alice, Sara
- The Cabin in the Woods (2011) - Patience Buckner
- The Tall Man (2012) - Jenny Weaver
- ParaNorman (2012) - Agatha "Aggie" Prenderghast / The Witch's Ghost (voice)
- Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012) - Alexis Baxter
- Motive (2015) - Sophie Glass
- Dark Matter (2015-17) - Five / Das / Emily Kolburn
- Frankie Drake Mysteries (2018) - Anna
- The Order (2020) - Zecchia
This actress provides examples of:
- Creepy Child / Enfant Terrible:
- Many of her kid roles were these tropes.
- The director of the Silent Hill movie talked about when he first met Jodelle, she was this giggling little girl in pink sunglasses and a white fur coat, and then she said to him in a creepy tone how she always wanted to play the devil.
- Crosscast Role: She had a small role in the movie The Messengers, where she played a little boy at the start of the movie.
- Dawson Casting: Her character Five in Dark Matter (2015) is stated to be 16. Jodelle was 20 when the show began, though that's closer than many of these castings.
- Dyeing for Your Art: She had her long brown hair cut and dyed green for the role of Five in Dark Matter (2015).
- Suppressed Mammaries: A downplayed example, but as she was supposed to be a teenager in Dark Matter (2015), she was dressed in baggy, loose clothes to conceal her breasts.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: She has beautiful blue eyes, as emphasized in the page picture to the right, as well as in her various roles.