Vanessa Smythe
UPCOMING Watch the Trailer
as Mother Signal One Premieres
June 5, 2026 MysteryScience Fiction
Vanessa Smythe is a Canadian actor and writer, best known for playing Michio in The Expanse. You can catch her on shows like Hudson & Rex and Murdoch Mysteries, and her live solo show, In Case We Disappear, has sold out houses internationally. She creates escape rooms in video stores and composes poems for arts and sports campaigns, and her latest solo show was performed when she was 8 months pregnant. You can catch her in the upcoming films Littlemouth and Trap, directed by M Night Shyamalan.
Filmography
Trap
as Tour Manager
Pieces of a Woman
as Linda
Christmas Plus One
as Amy
The Amityville Curse
as Debbie Klein
Christmas Beneath the Stars
as Gretta
Cradle to Grave
as Alice (25-42)
The Players
as Rose
Signal One
as Mother
Single Woman Seeking Child
as Sandy Watters