: Yvonne Strahovski is an Australian actress born on July 30, 1982, in Maroubra, New South Wales, Australia. She trained at the University of Western Sydney and built an acclaimed international career. She is best known for her role as Sarah Walker in the NBC spy series Chuck and as the complex, morally tortured Serena Joy Waterford in The Handmaid's Tale, for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. She has also appeared in Mass Effect (voice), Dexter, and the film I, Frankenstein.