Grace Park (actress)

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Grace Park
Born Grace Park
March 14, 1974 (1974-03-14) (age 35)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Model
Actress
Years active 2000-present
Spouse(s) Phil Kim (2004-present)

Grace Park (born March 14, 1974)[1][2] is a Canadian actress. She is best known as Sharon Valerii (and the various other iterations of Number Eight, a humanoid Cylon) on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont. Park was co-starring in A&E's The Cleaner until it was cancelled September 25, 2009 and currently stars in the CBC's The Border in Canada.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Los Angeles, California, Park and her family moved to Canada when she was 22 months old. She was raised in the Vancouver[3] neighborhood of Kerrisdale. Grace Park graduated from Magee Secondary[4] in 1992 and holds a degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia.[5] Park speaks English and understands some Korean.[6] She is currently studying Spanish. As of 2004, Park lives in Vancouver with her husband, Phil Kim. She was named #93 in Maxim Online's 2006 Hot 100 List and named #81 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.

Park has a role in the 2007 movie West 32nd,[7] a crime drama dealing with New York City’s Korean underworld.[7][8]

She appeared as Lt. Sandra Telfair in Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Tricia Helfer.[9][10]

She most recently has had co-starring roles in the A&E series The Cleaner and the CBC series The Border. In 2009, Park had an uncredited cameo role on the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She appeared as a fan in a crowd at a science fiction convention, objecting to a gritty remake of a Star Trek-like series, comparable to the Battlestar Galactica remake in which she starred.[11]

[edit] Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Romeo Must Die Asian Dancer Film
The Immortal Mikikio TV Series
2001 Edgemont Shannon Ng TV Series
Stargate SG-1 Lt. Satterfield TV Series
2003 Battlestar Galactica Number Eight TV Series
Jake 2.0 Fran Yoshida TV Series
2007 West 32nd Lila Lee Film
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Sandra Telfair Video game
2008 The Cleaner Akani Cuesta TV Series
The Border Liz Carver TV Series
2009 CSI:Las Vegas - A Space Oddity Convention Attendee
(uncredited)		 TV Series
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii TV Series

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sources:Grace Park at BattlestarWiki
  2. ^ The confusion over Grace Park's real birthday
  3. ^ Battlestar Galactica: Grace Park
  4. ^ Glen Schaefer (2008-11-09). "Battlestar beauty on The Border". The Province. http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/etoday/story.html?id=7f433560-163b-4d64-b3e2-11acd995bfbf. Retrieved 2008-11-09. 
  5. ^ Graeme McRanor (2008-11-07). "Saying Grace". 24 Hours Vancouver. http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainment/2008/11/07/7333906-sun.html. Retrieved 2008-11-09. 
  6. ^ "Hulu - Celebrity Interviews: The Cleaner: Grace Park". http://www.hulu.com/watch/28277/celebrity-interviews-the-cleaner-grace-park?c=87.562. Retrieved 2009-01-19. 
  7. ^ a b IMDB - West 32nd
  8. ^ Cover Story / December / 2006 / Archives - KoreAm Journal
  9. ^ Bantick, Mike (2007-03-27). "EA delivers Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars on PC". iTWire. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/10830/1092/ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-. Retrieved 2007-04-04. 
  10. ^ "Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars". http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/c/commandandconquer3xbox360/default.htm. Retrieved 2007-04-04. 
  11. ^ Tucker, Ken (2009-04-16). "'CSI' goes frakkin' 'BSG' on us". Entertainment Weekly. http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/04/csi-battlestar.html. Retrieved 2009-04-22. 

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