Ria Vandervis is a New Zealand actress. She played the role of the villainess Miratrix in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, and portrays Emergency Department Surgeon prodigy Harper Whitley on the long-running TV2 soap opera Shortland Street. Vandervis was born in Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand in 1984. She attended Columba College in the Dunedin suburb of Roslyn, followed by Auckland's UNITEC School of Performing & Screen Arts, where she completed a three-year course in acting. From 2002 to 2006, Vandervis acted in multiple UNITEC theatre productions and short films, and she also had a supporting role in the film The Devil Dared Me To. In June 2007, Vandervis attended the Power Morphicon, the first Power Rangers fan convention of any kind, in Los Angeles with her fellow Operation Overdrive cast members. Vandervis had roles in The Cut, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and Rescue: Special Ops. She also played Layla Soubrani in the Australian hit drama, Packed to the Rafters in series 2. In 2010, Vandervis played the regular role of Senior Constable Roxanne Perez in the Nine Network police drama Cops L.A.C. 

May 7th, 1984 in Dunedin (Age 39)