Elise Bauman Canadian Actress Born 1990 in Kitchener

Early life

Elise Bauman was born on 23 October 1990 in Kitchener, Canada. She attended Rockway Mennonite Collegiate and later trained at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City, where she graduated. She started working professionally on the stage while still young, before she turned to screen acting.

Career

Bauman's early professional experience was in theatre. One of her stage credits is The Skriker, a play by Caryl Churchill, staged by the Red One Theatre Collective. The production earned a rating of five N's from NOW Magazine.

Her screen career began in 2014 with the web series Carmilla, a modern adaptation of the 1871 Gothic vampire novella of the same name by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Bauman played the lead role of Laura Hollis. The series ran for three seasons and drew more than 70 million views worldwide. Bauman is best known for this part, and she played it again in The Carmilla Movie (2017), a feature-length continuation that was shown in cinemas across Canada. Natasha Negovanlis and K Alexander also appear with her in more than one of her listed titles.

Alongside Carmilla she took other screen work. In 2016 she appeared in the film Below Her Mouth, which has the widest coverage among her credits in other language editions of Wikipedia, and in Almost Adults. She played Jen Hauser, a hopeful for the Olympic Games, as a series regular in the CBC workplace comedy One More Time. She also had a starring role in Under the Christmas Tree, a holiday film made for the Lifetime network and described as the network's first lesbian holiday movie. Further television work includes recurring parts in the comedies Letterkenny and Workin' Moms. Her most recent film in the listing is A New Year's Resolution, from 2021. In all, five screen titles are recorded for her, from 2014 to 2021.

Bauman is also described as a director and a singer, although most of her recorded work is in acting.

Recognition

Carmilla won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Digital Series. At the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, Bauman received the Cogeco Fund Audience Choice Award. One More Time was nominated for Best Ensemble Performance in a comedy at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards.

Her Instagram account had about 122,500 followers in October 2026.

Personal life

Bauman has no marriage or children on record.