Nadine Kary is a hair colorist from Vancouver, Canada, and the wife of Prison Break actor Robert Knepper. For more than 20 years she has worked as a corrective colour specialist at The Color Lab, Inc. in Houston, Texas, operating under her professional brand NadineK. The couple married on July 8, 2013. In the years since, she has appeared publicly at four documented events, helped rescue an injured Canada goose in Vancouver that was covered by national news outlets, and given no interviews.
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| Origin | Vancouver, Canada |
| Profession | Senior Hair Colorist / Corrective Colour Specialist |
| Brand | NadineK |
| Workplace | The Color Lab, Inc., Houston, Texas |
| Married | Robert Knepper, July 8, 2013 |
| Stepson | Benjamin Peter Knepper (born 2002) |
The Colorist Who Built Her Career Before Anyone Searched Her Name
Much of what circulates online about Nadine Kary is fabricated. Multiple websites describe her as a CBC News anchor, a data scientist with coverage in Forbes, and an MIT researcher. None of those descriptions appear in any verifiable source. They are invented, and none should be used as fact.
What is confirmed comes directly from her own professional records. Her LinkedIn profile lists more than 20 years of experience as a colorist, with the stated specialisation: “Strong emphasis as a corrective colour specialist.” She operates under the brand name NadineK and holds the position of senior colorist at The Color Lab, Inc. in Houston, Texas.
Corrective colour is among the more technically demanding services in professional hairdressing. It means fixing hair that has been damaged by failed bleach attempts, over-processing, or repeated chemical treatments, and it requires a detailed working knowledge of how dye interacts with hair at different porosity levels. One wrong calculation and the hair breaks. Nadine’s practice is colour only. No cuts, no styling. That degree of specialisation, maintained across two decades at the same practice, is not a side interest.
Robert Knepper and the Marriage
Robert Lyle Knepper was born on July 8, 1959, in Fremont, Ohio. His father, Donald Knepper, was a veterinarian. His mother, the late Pat Deck, worked in the props department of a community theatre, which is what drew Robert toward acting from an early age. He studied drama at Northwestern University, spent years in professional theatre in Chicago and New York, and made his way into television gradually.
The role that defined his career came in 2005: Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell in Fox’s Prison Break, which ran until 2009 and returned for a revival season in 2017. T-Bag remains one of the most referenced characters in discussions about great television villains. Beyond Prison Break, his credits include Samuel Sullivan in NBC’s Heroes (2009-2010), Angus McDonough in iZombie on The CW (2015-2018), and Rodney Mitchum in Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival (2017). His film work includes Hitman (2007), Transporter 3 (2008), and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). He appeared in The Lost Princess, released digitally in May 2025. Hulu greenlit a Prison Break reboot in late 2024, featuring a new cast and a separate storyline. Knepper is not part of it.
Before Nadine, Robert Knepper was married to Tory Herald, a casting director and Hollywood realtor. The marriage ran from 2005 to 2009. From it, he has one son: Benjamin Peter Knepper, born in 2002.
He married Nadine Kary on July 8, 2013, his 54th birthday. The date is confirmed by Wikipedia, IMDb, and Variety. Nadine became Benjamin’s stepmother, and the couple has been based in Los Angeles since. No reliable source documents how or when the two met. The earliest confirmed photographic record placing them together is a November 2014 Getty Images caption from the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, attended by Robert, Nadine, and Benjamin.
The Night They Made News in Vancouver
On the evening of August 2, 2016, Robert Knepper and Nadine Kary were driving through Vancouver near Main Street and Terminal Avenue when a Canada goose was struck by a passing car and fell into the road. Robert was in Vancouver filming the Prison Break revival season at the time.
CBC News, Daily Hive Vancouver, and CTV News all covered what followed, drawing from Robert’s Instagram account and the animal welfare organisation that treated the bird:
- A TransLink transit supervisor named Chris Berg happened to be nearby and handed over a pair of gloves
- Nadine walked into the nearest McDonald’s and returned with a cardboard box large enough to hold the goose
- She caught the bird while Robert threw his hoodie over it to keep it calm
- The two drove it to the nearest emergency animal clinic, which arranged transfer to the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC in Burnaby
- The goose was treated for a ruptured air sac and an injured flank
Two weeks later, on approximately August 19, Robert and Nadine returned to release the recovered bird into False Creek. Coleen Doucette, executive director of Wildlife Rescue, told Daily Hive that the couple’s quick action saved the bird from further suffering and almost certainly saved its life.
Robert wrote on Instagram that when he shook out his hoodie at the hotel that night, a single goose feather fell out. “I’d like to think it was a sign,” he wrote, “saying, ‘Hey, thanks.'”
Confirmed Public Appearances
Nadine Kary’s documented appearances at public events, drawn from Getty Images and BroadwayWorld photo archives:
| Event | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 premiere | November 2014 | Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles |
| Ride film premiere | April 28, 2015 | ArcLight Hollywood |
| Cabaret opening night | July 20, 2016 | Hollywood Pantages Theatre |
| Entertainment Weekly Comic-Con Party | July 23, 2016 | Hard Rock Hotel, San Diego |
Her Instagram account, @colorgrl1, has fewer than 100 followers as of 2026. She has not given a known interview.
The 2017 Allegations Against Robert Knepper
In November 2017, The Hollywood Reporter published allegations of sexual assault against Robert Knepper from veteran costume designer Susan Bertram. Bertram alleged that Knepper assaulted her during the production of the 1991 film Gas Food Lodging in New Mexico.
Knepper denied the accusations in a since-deleted Instagram post. In that statement he wrote that “my wife and I have discussed the pain women have experienced,” before calling the allegation false.
In December 2017, The Hollywood Reporter reported that four additional women had come forward with separate allegations covering incidents from 1983 to 2014, including an alleged assault in Vancouver in 2010. Knepper denied all of them.
Bertram filed a defamation lawsuit against Knepper in February 2018 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Warner Bros. Television, which produced iZombie, ran two internal investigations into the show’s set. Both found no evidence of misconduct, as confirmed by statements from CW president Mark Pedowitz and reported by Variety.
On June 1, 2021, Bertram’s attorney announced that the lawsuit had been settled. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Where Things Stand in April 2026
Nadine Kary’s LinkedIn profile remains active as of April 2026. No verified public appearances have been recorded since mid-2016, and no interviews have been given.
The fabricated versions of her career that circulate online, describing her as a journalist, a data scientist, and an academic, have no basis in any verifiable source. The record shows a woman from Vancouver who spent two decades building a specialist career in Houston, married Robert Knepper on his birthday in 2013, once helped pull an injured Canada goose from Vancouver traffic and saw it through two weeks of treatment, and has not given a single interview in the years since.
