American-Canadian YA author and actress, Kristin Groulx was born in Pasadena, California, the only child of her parents, a sea captain and a veterinary technician. Her father is of English, Irish and Dutch decent, while her mother is nearly half Swedish and German. Growing up across the map, on the East Coast in Woodbridge, Virginia, she developed an early interest in the arts. At first, it was with the fine arts, including drawing and painting. In the latter part of her high school years, she moved overseas to Sasebo, Japan, where she pursued creative talents including modeling, creative writing, yearbook and graphic arts layout and theatre. Anything involving the arts became an open book for her to put a pen to. Upon graduating with a 3.8 GPA and a National Honor Society induction, she traveled with her family back to America. She attended the University of Missouri-Columbia where she took courses in her major of Fine & Theatre Arts, as well as minoring in Psychology. She went on to study Theatre Arts at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, studying Improvisation with Scott Parker and Method Acting with Victoria Parker and William Tate. During the years upon arriving in Canada, she pursued a career in writing. Beginning in the year 2004, she has written and published six young adult novels in the genre of Paranormal Romance, with a seventh book forthcoming. She is known for playing the recurring main character "Tamora the Sorceress" on the webseries Cornwyth (2010) filmed by director, Kendrick de Lepper of Shadowyn Films, including Cornwyth: Tales from the Staff - Dragon's Bridge (2011) and Cornwyth: Tales from the Staff - Dragon's Egg (2012). She also is known for doing background performer work for several television and movies including The Perfect Boss (2013) , A Sister's Revenge (2013) , Mit 17 bist Du tot (2008) and most recently, Hit by Lightning (2014). She resides in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with her husband and three children, in a century-year-old home in the countryside. She is most well known for her written work, publishing six YA Paranormal Romance novels entitled 'the mis-adventures of Alyson Bell' series, including her first novel published in 2007, "The Ghost of Colby Drive". - IMDb Mini Biography By: Kristin Groulx
Went to high school in Sasebo, Japan from 1987-1989. Is the sister-in-law of Sylvie Groulx and Darcy Arthurs . She played the position of center in her high school basketball team for two years while living in Sasebo, Japan. She toured Korea and Hong Kong, and northern Japan doing tournaments. She even went to Tokyo Disneyland. Sponsors a daughter in Zimbabwe, Africa named Trinity. She is the same age as Kristin's eldest daughter. The two of them correspond as often as possible. Her daughter, Hallie Green , also is an actress and plays the elf half-ling character Elliwyk on the webseries Cornwyth (2010) by Kendrick de Lepper . Loves attending Renaissance Festivals and dressing in costume. Halloween is one of her favorite times of year. She was already 5' 9" when she was age 13. Scored an IQ of 132+ and has Eidetic memory. She has a freckled pattern birthmark similar to the star constellation The Pleiades on her left ankle. Her head-to-toe freckles are part of her trademark, and remind her of her Celtic ancestry. She is a vegetarian and has been for most of her life. Kristin is a resourceful family historian and genealogist tracing her own ancestry back for generations. She is mostly of Swedish, English, Irish, German and Dutch descent, with a small percentage of Welsh and Native American. Her father, now retired, is head of one of the genealogical societies where he lives. It was Kristin that sparked the interest in her family history, back in 1987, by writing to all of her aunts and uncles for information to finish a school project. The information was so long, that it was necessary to write it out on a long scroll of butcher paper. It was later transcribed into a database, and the rest, they say ... is history. Creative writing and being an author is in the genes. On her father's side of the family, Kristin has several writers. Her grandmother was also a writer, submitting several short stories to be published in the 1950's. Kristin's Great-Grandmother Helen Josephine Vandegrift was the society page editor for the Akron Beacon Journal in 1920's. During this time she also wrote several plays and stories. In 1922, she won an amateur playwright competition entitling her to enter Harvard Workshop. Instead, she became a writer for Newspaper Enterprise Association in New York City. Among the best of her many stories was an account of a trip to Florida in which she interviewed John D Rockefeller. She returned to Akron in 1924 and became a writer for the Beacon Journal. In May 1925, she married William H. Rigby, a local book store owner. (Contemporary accounts state she was his first customer). She then wrote a syndicated column titled "Demitasse and Mrs Grundy" which included, among other things, references to her family life at 320 Fairy Street. She was also prominent in social and professional women's clubs including the Business Women's Club, Women's City Club and the Ohio Newspaper Women's Association. In July 1926, she was taken to Peoples Hospital, Akron, in a vain effort to save her life. Kristin's Grandfather, Ivan A. Peterson DVM, son of Oscar and Minnie, was raised in Forks, Washington, but left his mark in San Marino, Pasadena and Hollywood, California as Veterinarian to several well known and famous animal actors, including the classic Lassie (1954) dogs. He also assisted with the monkeys that went into space, as well as with being a friend of Jane Goodall and sponsored her chimpanzee research. There were several articles published by him, and written about him, including one in Time Magazine in February 1955. His clinic was located at 28 Valley St, Pasadena, California. On her mother's side of the family, the Peterson family has been well known for many different reasons. Kristin's Great-Grandmother, Minnie (Nelson) Peterson was the daughter of a Swedish immigrant and pioneer of the logging town, Forks, Washington. Mrs. Peterson's fame as a hardy pioneer and packer for trips into the wilderness of the Olympic Peninsula grew from a lifetime of living off the land and working for over 50 years as a packer in the Olympic National Forest. A campground, the Minnie Peterson Camp and Picnic Area, sits along the Hoh River 9 miles south of Forks. She married Oscar Peterson, Sr. and began her packing career when her husband asked if she would help with the pack horses during hunting season. Although she had 4 small children, Mrs. Peterson took to leading trails of horses through the wilderness for days. Eventually she and Oscar bought a string of pack horses and led trips for the Sierra Club, scientists and other individuals. Mrs. Peterson continued packing and running the couple's ranch after her husband died in 1962. Stories written about Mrs. Peterson in the Seattle Times, The Western Horseman and other publications tell how she often ignored warnings of bears. Once she camped near 2 hikers. The hikers had been told a bear was in the area and they were concerned. Mrs. Peterson offered to sleep by the door and ward off intruders. Later during the night a bear did show. In the story published in Peninsula Magazine, Mrs. Peterson tells how the bear came up to the shelter, then she chased it off until it changed its mind and ran straight at her. Mrs. Peterson said before the bear turned away the second time, she felt it brush her leg. The town of Forks has now been made famous by being the primary location for the novels in the _Twilight_ series by Stephenie Meyer . Kristin's Great-Grandfather Oscar Peterson, built the bed & breakfast (now called Miller Tree Inn) which was used as the Edward Cullen house in the movies. Several of the large pines behind the house were planted by her Great-Grandparents. Has a flair for mystery and the supernatural, so much so that she often plays characters that are witches or sorceresses of sorts. From 2007-2012, she published five successful YA books about a teenage witch named Alyson Bell and a soul-stealing vampire named Hremm Nevar. She is an avid crocheter. She is the only child in her immediate family, but her father's side of the family had 13 siblings (of which he was the oldest) and she has numerous cousins scattered across the globe. Coincidentally, her second husband's father also had 13 siblings. She has three nephews and two nieces. When Kristin was 11 years old, her favorite movie was Xanadu (1980) and she practiced daily singing like Olivia Newton-John . She enjoyed singing so much that she landed a lead role in her school play performing as Pepper from the musical play Annie (1982). In 2009, just three months after the birth of her 3rd child, Kristin contracted a life-threatening disease called Necrotizing Fasciitis. It attacked her leg and her left arm. It was caught in time to prevent fatality; however it was necessary to remove a percentage of muscle in her left arm in order to save her life. She is also an accomplished artist with several drawings, with the medium of pencil and colored pencils. She began when she was age 13. Her object of choice to draw were large wild cats such as tigers and leopards, due to the detail of their skin markings. She always drew the eyes first "to give the drawings a soul". Her last drawing was completed in 2008. 1989: Received a $500 scholarship from the Smithsonian Institute for University, as reward for induction into the National Honor Society at her high school. She later applied for internship, but did not pursue the move. Instead, she went to University at her father's Alma-mater at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The setting for her first book novel is a century-old home named the Finch Estate, settled into a fictional country town called Hollow Creek, Virginia. It is designed using several memories of homes Kristin grew up in and her grandparents lived in. Upon publishing her fourth book, Kristin and family purchased a century-old home where they continue to reside, and she writes "among the many ghosts". 1985: She came in second place at the Woodbridge Middle School Science Fair for her project on the effects of plants and radiation. Using her mother's Veterinary clinic as her source, she taped bean plant seeds to the wall inside the X-ray room, just outside the room on the door, and across the room. She then studied the effects the radiation had on the growth of the plants. It was discovered due to this experiment that the Veterinary office had a radiation leak outside of the X-ray room, that was soon fixed. Her character's name in Cornwyth (2010) is actually a real name. Temora as a girl's name is a variant of Temira (Hebrew), and the meaning of Temora is "tall". With the 3" black witch boots on, Kristin's character Temora is towering 6'2". The spells cast in Cornwyth (2010) are made up of the Elvish language. The most common spells Temora casts are 'Templa Pilin' and 'Runya Yanta'. While working in the Theatre department at Portland State University, she assisted many productions including Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Dancing on Checkers Grave", doing behind the scenes work such as building stage scenery, costuming and wardrobe, and assisting with stage makeup for the main actors. 1992/3: President of her service sorority Epsilon Sigma Alpha at the University of Missouri-Columbia.