Karen Shenaz David is a Canadian actress, singer, and songwriter, best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in ABC's fairytale-themed musical-comedy television series Galavant, as well as the Head of Spanish, Cesca Montoya, in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road and Layla in the American action film The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior. She starred as Angela in the ITV television series Cold Feet, and played Princess Jasmine in the sixth season of Once Upon a Time.
David in 2017
Image: Karen David with black hair and head on the table
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, concluding its original run on 9 March 2015, exactly nine years after the broadcast of the first episode.
Title card (2023–present)
The original setting for the series was the former Hill Top Community Primary School in Kirkholt, Rochdale
From Series 8 to Series 10 the setting was the former Greenock Academy, on Madeira Street, Greenock.
From Series 11 to Series 13 the setting is the former St Ambrose Barlow Roman Catholic High School, in Swinton, Salford.