Linnea Sharples

Linnea Sharples
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Portrays:	Lieutenant Emmitt "Sweetness" Jones Ada's Mother
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Linnea Sharples (also credited as Linnea Taylor Sharples) is an actress who portrayed Lieutenant Emmitt "Sweetness" Jones in the Re-imagined Series' "Home, Part I" and Ada's Mother in Caprica's "Unvanquished".

Career

Sharples' earliest screen credit was as a group automated dialogue replacement (ADR) director on Titanic (1997). She moved in front of the camera the following year, playing Beth in the television film The Falling (1998) and working as a stand-in on Leslie Nielsen's Wrongfully Accused (1998).

Through 1999 she accumulated a string of single-episode guest roles on Vancouver-filmed series, including Janet in The New Addams Family episode "Fester, the Tycoon," Alicia's Mom in the Millennium episode "Nostalgia," the Crying Actress in the Beggars and Choosers episode "White Woman's Burden," and Kate in the Relic Hunter episode "The Book of Love." The same year she appeared as Mrs. Smith in the television film The Wonder Cabinet (1999) and a Business Woman in Evolution's Child (1999).

In 2000 Sharples began a run of single-episode guest roles on genre television that continued through the mid-2000s. She played Lieutenant Clare Tobias in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Shades of Grey" and Sandra Logan in the The Outer Limits episode "The Gun." She also played Sabrina Blair in the First Wave episode "Legacy," credited as Linnea Taylor Sharples. Further single-episode work that year included a production assistant in the television film Best Actress (2000) and a credit on the series Hollywood Off-Ramp (2000).

Sharples returned to The Outer Limits the following year as Kamala Shastri in "Think Like a Dinosaur" and took the role of Taylor in the Big Sound episode "Jam Session" (2001). She also guest-starred as Yvaine, a fisherwoman sheltering an amnesiac Tyr Anasazi, in the Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda episode "Music of a Distant Drum" (2001). That year she also worked as a stand-in for Vanessa Angel on Leslie Nielsen's Camouflage (2001).

In 2002 she played Cheryl in the "Who Was I" segment of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction and an uncredited New Annie in the revived The Twilight Zone episode "Upgrade." The following year, footage of her "Shades of Grey" performance as Lieutenant Clare Tobias was reused, credited as archive footage, in the clip-based Stargate SG-1 episode "Disclosure" (2003).

Sharples returned to series television in 2005, playing Lieutenant Emmitt "Sweetness" Jones in the Re-imagined Series' "Home, Part I". The following year she played Tech 1 in the Masters of Horror episode "Sounds Like" and Leslie in the Saved episode "Triage" (2006).

In 2007 she played Charlie in the Exes & Ohs episode "Cutthroat" and Teacher #1 in Chaos Theory (2007), starring Ryan Reynolds. She had a recurring part as Gretchen and Nina across four episodes of The L Word in 2008: "Loyal and True," "Lunar Cycle," "Lights! Camera! Action!," and "Lookin' at You, Kid." In 2009 she played Lisa in the Supernatural episode "The Rapture."

In 2010 Sharples played Ada's Mother, the mother of a Soldiers of the One suicide bomber in a holoband simulation, in the Caprica's "Unvanquished". Her most recent acting credit to date is Nora in the series finale of Fairly Legal (2012).

Personal life

Sharples is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.