 After many years in Canadian and American television work, she moved to Los Angeles and continues to work in television and film, most recently in "JAG", "Strong Medicine", "Star Trek Voyager" and the film "Smother", which stars Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler, and Dax Shepard.Ivanans is of Latvian and Danish heritage; her father is from Riga, and her mother is from Copenhagen.She is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto.