A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Erica Cerra began performing as a child. After a hiatus from acting during her teen years, she restarted her career in commercials before moving on to feature films and television.

Cerra's feature-film work includes roles in Mike Binder's Man About Town, The Long Weekend, and Blade: Trinity. She also has been a popular supporting player on several hit television series. Viewers of Syfy might recognize her as Maya, the mother who adopted the human-Cylon hybrid child of Sharon Valerii on Battlestar Galactica. Fans of the acclaimed Showtime series The L Word know her as Alice's seductive vampire lover, Uta Refson.

Her other guest-starring roles include turns on Smallville as well as USA Network shows as The 4400 and The Dead Zone, and the Showtime series Huff and Dead Like Me.