Instant Star’s Laura Vandervoort has landed the plum role of Supergirl on Smallville, playing the super-powered cousin to Tom Welling’s Clark Kent, and will arrive with the start of the seventh season of the CW series, which shoots in B.C.

Meanwhile, Vandervoort continues to work on the fourth season of CTV’s Instant Star, on which she plays the older sister of headliner Alexz Johnson, for Epitome Pictures.