Serinda Swan was born in Vancouver, Canada to a family of artists. Her father and step-mother are both in the theatre world. Father Scott Swan is an established theater director and has an acting studio in Vancouver and stepmother Cheryl Swan is a faculty emeritus who taught post-secondary theatre for over 35 years. Swans mother Alandra Napali Kai is a leader in the health and wellness world and runs womens retreats all around the world.

Swan was introduced to the television world with popular shows like Supernatural, Psych, and Hawaii Five-O. In 2009, she was cast as the iconic Zatanna in the popular show Smallville. 

Feature films soon followed with Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief directed by Chris Columbus and Disneys TRON: Legacy opposite Jeff Bridges. In 2011, Swan was cast as the female lead Erica Reed, in the series Breakout Kings. After the series two-year run, she was cast as a series regular in the hit show GRACELAND which ran until 2015. 

Swans work continued by playing the iconic Anne Bancroft, alongside Jessica Lange in Ryan Murphys show FEUD!. Swan was then cast opposite Dwayne Johnson to play his love interest on the hit series Ballers. Simultaneously working with The Rock, Swan was cast as the female lead in Marvels Inhumans opposite Anson Mount and Iwan Rheon. She portrayed the iconic character Medusa, the queen of the Inhumans. Swan is currently leading the cast of CBCs primetime hit drama series, Coroner which has just completed production of season two.

On the philanthropic side, Swan is the CEO and Co-Founder of the Education technology company Deedly. Her goal is to give students a choice in the future they want to be a part of and give them the tools and information to achieve it at no cost to them, their teacher, the school or the charity highlighted. Her belief is that education should be free, and through their specific monthlong curriculum they educate students about world issues and the charities that strive to fix them. Traditional education systems focus on harnessing the capacity of the mind, I want to harness the capacity of the heart. Deedly will be in over 1000 schools by the end of the year. 

Swan has worked closely with the UN, staying in refugee camps at the border of south Sudan on an anti-Malaria mission, cycled across the entire country of Cambodia to bring awareness to anti-sex trafficking and has gone skydiving over 10 times at 18,000 feet (North Americas highest skydive) for her yearly fundraiser for anti sex trafficking and women's equality. 

Swan was also invited to be one of the headline speakers at TEDXVancouver and recently spoke at the United Nations on International Womens Day 2018 as well as a panel on how the media and entertainment industry can influence social change. 

To date, Swan has personally raised over $700,000 for charity and reached over 100 million people with her awareness campaigns.