A new year is upon us and it looks bright for our favorite actress, Yvonne Strahovski.

Though the writer’s strike still threatens the second half of the season for Chuck, it seems certain that we’ll see Chuck return some time in 2008. When it does, you can count on Strahotski.com to bring you updated screen captures and episode reviews.

In addition, Yvonne stars in The Canyon which will be released this year. With any luck, we’ll also see the US premieres of films such as The Plex and Persons of Interest.

To start off the year, let’s catch up on what we missed during the holidays:

• Chuck was named IGN’s best new series, and Sarah and Chuck were named the year’s couple we most rooted for.
• Sarah Walker was named IGN’s best TV Character of 2007.
• Yet another interview with the cast from Televisionary verifies that Ms. Strahovski has indeed heard of Strahotski.com. Yay!
• Chuck is still up for voting in the People’s Choice Awards for Favorite new TV Comedy. Be sure to vote! The more acclaim Chuck gets, the more Yvonne Strahovski we’ll get and that’s a winning proposition if I ever heard one.

If you have any news we’ve missed, let us know! If you just want to talk about Yvonne with fellow fans, check out our forums.

As we’ve mentioned previously here at Strahotski.com, Yvonne stars in an upcoming Australian film called Persons of Interest.

If you missed that post, you can watch trailers for the film at its myspace page or go back and read our original post.

We’ve received special permission from the creator of the film to post up hi-res production photos from the film in our gallery, under a brand new album.

No watermarks from us on these because they all belong to the film and are watermarked with the appropriate copyrights.

The film is finishing post-production right now and Tristan tells us we can expect it to hit the US festivals sometime in 2008.

Special thanks to Tristan for the photos, and I’ll be sure keep everyone up to date on when (and how) we can see Yvonne starring in this movie.

Also, be sure to register and post on the forums! It’s starting to get pretty active.

For a change of pace, I thought I’d post some info about other projects Yvonne is working on. The next big thing from her seems to be a film coming up in 2008 called The Canyon.

The film is in post-production at this point, so Yvonne has done her part. Now we just have to wait for baited breath for the release next year.

In researching the film, I came into correspondence with Karina over at Karina’s Kitchen.What could a website full of awesome gluten-free recipes have to do with Yvonne Strahovski, you ask? Well, it turns out that Karina’s husband is Steve Allrich, screenwriter of The Canyon.

Karina is lucky enough to have visited the set during filming and she has this to say about Yvonne:

The female lead, Lori, is played by Yvonne Strzechowski - who is not only gracious and beautiful, Babycakes, she’s a smart, strong and capable actress.

It was very fun to meet Yvonne and get to know her. She is as lovely, gracious, funny and smart as you might imagine. Beautiful inside and out.

Stay tuned- because Yvonne is so amazing in The Canyon- she will blow you away!

It’s great to get a first-hand account of the real Yvonne. It sounds like she’s every bit as amazing as we’ve made her out to be here at Strahotski.com.

Karina also has a public Flickr gallery of on set photos from the movie. We can’t host them here, but I invite you all to check out the really awesome photos of Yvonne that she has in the gallery!

Looks like there’s an upcoming Australian film called “Persons of Interest” that stars Yvonne Strahovski (billed as Yvonne Strzechowski).

I can’t find a lot about it right now except a Myspace page and this trailer:

It’s unclear when this film will cross the oceans to the US, but the trailer is totally worth watching to hear Yvonne with her hot Australian accent.

We’ll keep you posted with more info as it becomes available. Thanks to reader Joe for the tip!