Samantha Ferris (born November 2, 1968) is a Canadian actress and in the mid-1990s was a television reporter for the Bellingham, Washington station KVOS TV-12 and Vancouver's BCTV, where she went by the name Janie Ferris. She is best known for her roles as Nina Jarvis on The 4400 and as Ellen Harvelle on Supernatural. Description above from the Wikipedia article Samantha Ferris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia