Grace Park (actress)
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| Born | Grace Park March 14, 1974 Los Angeles, California |
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| Spouse(s) | Phil Kim |
Grace Park (born March 14, 1974[1][2]) is an American-born Canadian actress of Korean descent. 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.
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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 "understand[s] some Korean."[6] She is currently studying Spanish. As of 2005, Park lives in Vancouver with her husband, Korean real estate developer Phil Kim. She was named #93 in Maxim Online's 2006 Hot 100 List.[7]
Park has a role in the 2007 movie West 32nd,[8] a crime drama dealing with New York City’s Korean underworld.[8][9]
She appeared as Lt. Sandra Telfair in Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Tricia Helfer.[10][11]
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.[12]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 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 |
[edit] References
- ^ Sources:Grace Park at BattlestarWiki
- ^ The confusion over Grace Park's real birthday
- ^ Battlestar Galactica: Grace Park
- ^ 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 on 2008-11-09.
- ^ Graeme McRanor (2008-11-07). "Saying Grace". 24 Hours Vancouver. http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainment/2008/11/07/7333906-sun.html. Retrieved on 2008-11-09.
- ^ "Hulu - Celebrity Interviews: The Cleaner: Grace Park". http://www.hulu.com/watch/28277/celebrity-interviews-the-cleaner-grace-park?c=87.562. Retrieved on 2009-01-19.
- ^ Maxim - 2006 Hot 100
- ^ a b IMDB - West 32nd
- ^ Cover Story / December / 2006 / Archives - KoreAm Journal
- ^ 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 on 2007-04-04.
- ^ "Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars". http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/c/commandandconquer3xbox360/default.htm. Retrieved on 2007-04-04.
- ^ Tucker, Ken (2009-04-16). "'CSI' goes frakkin' 'BSG' on us". Entertainment Weekly. http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/04/csi-battlestar.html. Retrieved on 2009-04-22.
