Katie Cassidy

Template:Actor Katherine Evelyn Anita "Katie" Cassidy Rodgers (née Cassidy; born November 25, 1986) is an American actress. She portrayed Laurel Lance/Black Canary in a lead role in the first four seasons of Arrow, and also special guest starred in its fifth season. She also special guest starred in season one of The Flash and in the first two seasons of DC's Legends of Tomorrow. She also voiced her character in a major role in season two of Vixen.

In 2016, it was announced that Cassidy signed a deal that made her a universe regular across all the Arrowverse shows (like Wentworth Miller and John Barrowman). She then had the freedom to make guest appearances in season five of Arrow, season three of The Flash, and season two of DC's Legends of Tomorrow. However, she only appeared in Season 2 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Season 5 of Arrow.

She portrayed the Earth-2 equivalent Laurel Lance/Black Siren in a special guest starring role in season two of The Flash, and in the fifth season of Arrow. She was promoted back to series regular for the show's sixth season; reprising her role as Laurel Lance/Black Siren. She also returned as a series regular in the seventh and eighth seasons.

Credits

Arrow

Actress

Season 1 "Pilot" Laurel Lance "Honor Thy Father" Laurel Lance "Lone Gunmen" Laurel Lance "An Innocent Man" Laurel Lance "Damaged" Laurel Lance "Legacies" Laurel Lance "Muse of Fire" Laurel Lance "Vendetta" Laurel Lance "Year's End" Laurel Lance "Burned" Laurel Lance "Trust but Verify" Laurel Lance "Vertigo" Laurel Lance "Betrayal" Laurel Lance "The Odyssey" Laurel Lance "Dodger" Laurel Lance "Dead to Rights" Laurel Lance "The Huntress Returns" Laurel Lance "Salvation" Laurel Lance "Unfinished Business" Laurel Lance "Home Invasion" Laurel Lance "The Undertaking" Laurel Lance "Darkness on the Edge of Town" Laurel Lance "Sacrifice" Laurel Lance Season 2 "City of Heroes" Laurel Lance "Identity" Laurel Lance "Broken Dolls" Laurel Lance "Crucible" Laurel Lance "League of Assassins" Laurel Lance "Keep Your Enemies Closer" (credit only) "State v. Queen" Laurel Lance "The Scientist" (credit only) "Three Ghosts" Laurel Lance "Blast Radius" Laurel Lance "Blind Spot" Laurel Lance "Tremors" Laurel Lance "Heir to the Demon" Laurel Lance "Time of Death" Laurel Lance "The Promise" (credit only) "Suicide Squad" Laurel Lance "Birds of Prey" Laurel Lance "Deathstroke" Laurel Lance "The Man Under the Hood" Laurel Lance "Seeing Red" Laurel Lance "City of Blood" Laurel Lance "Streets of Fire" Laurel Lance "Unthinkable" Laurel Lance Season 3 "The Calm" Laurel Lance "Sara" Laurel Lance "Corto Maltese" Laurel Lance "The Magician" Laurel Lance "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak" Laurel Lance "Guilty" Laurel Lance "Draw Back Your Bow" (credit only) "The Brave and the Bold" Laurel Lance "The Climb" Laurel Lance "Left Behind" Laurel Lance/The Canary "Midnight City" Laurel Lance/The Canary "Uprising" Laurel Lance/The Canary "Canaries" Laurel Lance/The Canary "The Return" Laurel Lance "Nanda Parbat" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "The Offer" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Suicidal Tendencies" Laurel Lance "Public Enemy" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Broken Arrow" Laurel Lance "The Fallen" Laurel Lance "Al Sah-him" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "This Is Your Sword" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "My Name Is Oliver Queen" Laurel Lance/Black Canary Season 4 "Green Arrow" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "The Candidate" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Restoration" Laurel Lance "Beyond Redemption" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Haunted" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Lost Souls" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Brotherhood" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Legends of Yesterday" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Dark Waters" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Blood Debts" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "A.W.O.L." Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Unchained" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Sins of the Father" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Code of Silence" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Taken" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Broken Hearts" Laurel Lance "Beacon of Hope" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" Laurel Lance/Black Canary "Canary Cry" Laurel Lance "Genesis" Black Canary (archive footage) "Monument Point" (credit only) "Lost in the Flood" (credit only) "Schism" (credit only) Season 5 "Legacy" Laurel Lance (special guest star) "Invasion!" Laurel Lance (special guest star) "What We Leave Behind" Laurel Lance (special guest star) "Who Are You?"  Laurel Lance and Laurel Lance/Black Siren (special guest star) "Missing" Laurel Lance and Laurel Lance/Black Siren (special guest star) "Lian Yu" Laurel Lance/Black Siren (special guest star) Season 6 "Fallout" Laurel Lance/Black Siren "Tribute" (credit only) "Next of Kin" (credit only) "Reversal" Laurel Lance/Black Siren "Deathstroke Returns" (credit only) "Promises Kept" (credit only) "Thanksgiving" Laurel Lance/Black Siren "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2" (credit only) "Irreconcilable Differences" Laurel Lance/Black Siren "Divided" Laurel Lance/Black Siren "We Fall" (credit only) "All for Nothing" Laurel Lance/Black Siren "The Devil's Greatest Trick" Laurel Lance "Collision Course" Laurel Lance "Doppelganger" Laurel Lance "The Thanatos Guild" (credit only) "Brothers in Arms" Laurel Lance "Fundamentals" Laurel Lance and Laurel Lance "The Dragon" Laurel Lance "Shifting Allegiances" Laurel Lance "Docket No. 11-19-41-73" Laurel Lance "The Ties That Bind" (credit only) "Life Sentence" Laurel Lance Season 7 "Inmate 4587" Laurel Lance "The Longbow Hunters" Laurel Lance "Crossing Lines" (credit only) "Level Two" Laurel Lance "The Demon" Laurel Lance "Due Process" Laurel Lance "The Slabside Redemption" (credit only) "Unmasked" Laurel Lance "Elseworlds, Part 2" (credit only) "My Name is Emiko Queen" (credit only) "Past Sins" Laurel Lance "Emerald Archer" Laurel Lance/Black Canary (archive footage) and Laurel Lance "Star City Slayer" (credit only) "Brothers & Sisters" Laurel Lance "Training Day" Laurel Lance "Star City 2040" (credit only) "Inheritance" Laurel Lance "Lost Canary" Laurel Lance/Black Siren/Black Canary "Spartan" (credit only) "Confessions" (credit only) "Living Proof" (credit only) "You Have Saved This City" Laurel Lance/Black Canary Season 8 "Starling City" Laurel Lance/Black Canary

The Flash

Actress

Season 1

• "Who is Harrison Wells?" Laurel Lance (special guest star)

Season 2

• "Invincible" Laurel Lance/Black Siren (special guest star)

Season 4

• "Fury Rogue" Laurel Lance/Siren-X (special guest star)

Superhero Fight Club shorts

Actress

• Superhero Fight Club Black Canary

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Actress

Season 1

• "Pilot, Part 1" Laurel Lance (special guest star) ​

Season 2

• "Aruba" Laurel Lance (special guest star)  

Vixen

Voice Actress

Season 2

• "Episode 4" Black Canary (special guest star)
• "Episode 5" Black Canary (special guest star)
• "Episode 6" Laurel Lance/Black Canary (special guest star)

Trivia

• Cassidy Rodgers is the daughter of David Cassidy. She is also the niece of Patrick Cassidy, who portrayed Leslie Luckabee on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Henry Small on Smallville.
• Cassidy married Matthew Rodgers in December 2018. She was credited on-screen as "Katie Cassidy" through the first seven seasons. Starting with the episode "My Name is Emiko Queen", she was credited as "Katie Cassidy Rodgers".
• She went to prom with Tyler Hoechlin.

External links

• Katie Cassidy at the Internet Movie Database
• Follow Katie Cassidy (@MzKatieCassidy) on Twitter