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Birth name : Grace Park |
| Date of birth :
14 March 1974 |
| Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA |
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Grace |
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| Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m) |
| Spouse: Phil Kim (2002 - present) |
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"You know what, I'm going make a movie one day and make like 25 million dollars. Whatever you want to see or whatever you're struggling with in life, you can see there, whether it be politics or terrorism or war, hope, faith, struggle, love. It's all in there. Or if you just want plain action and neck-snapping plot twists, you've got that too." |
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Grace Park (born March 14, 1974) is an American-Canadian actress of Korean descent. She is best known as Sharon Valerii (and the various iterations of Number Eight, a humanoid Cylon) on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont. Originally a model who turned to acting in her native Canada, Grace Park quickly rose from unknown commodity to celebrity, thanks to playing Lt. Sharon “Boomer” Valerii on the popular remake of “Battlestar Galactica” (Sci Fi Channel, 2004- ).
Prior to her success, she spent five seasons on the Canadian high school coming-of-age show, “Edgemont” (CBC, 2001-05), which helped establish her as a star on the rise. But it was “Battlestar” that not only propelled her into the spotlight, but turned her into an unwitting sex symbol to sci-fi geeks across the world a much-ballyhooed spread in Maxim magazine in 2006 only helped fuel her newfound status as a cyberspace pinup. Because she was an integral part of the series particularly in light of playing different variations of a Cylon sleeper agent
Park was allowed to convey her full range, which of course opened doors to other projects and established her as a bona fide talent with a promising future.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Park and her family moved to Canada when she was 22 months old. She was raised in a Korean community in Vancouver, Abbotsford, a suburb of Vancouver. Grace Park graduated from Magee Secondary in 1992, holds a degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia and speaks English and Korean, along with some French and Cantonese. 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. Her favorite food is samgyeopsal. Park moved with her family to Vancouver, British Columbia when she was just 22 months old. Raised in the city’s large Korean community, Park graduated from Magee Secondary School in 1992 before attending the University of British Columbia, where she earned a degree in psychology.
After graduation, she began modeling, but quickly segued into an acting career. She made quite an impression with a small, but memorable role as a stripper in “Romeo Must Die” (2000), Jet Li’s martial arts and hip-hop take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. After a guest spot on the short-lived spy thriller, “Secret Agent Man” (UPN, 1999-2000), Park landed her first regular series role, playing the shy, but opinionated Shannon Ng on the Canadian-made teen drama, “Edgemont,” which followed the lives of several high school students grappling with problems as they come of age. Park was a consistent presence on the show’s five season run on the CBC, seeing her character go through a myriad of emotional conflicts, including the realization that she is a lesbian and the subsequent fallout with her disapproving parents.
Despite not being the main focus on “Edgemont,” it was clear that Park stood apart from the rest of the cast. She made further inroads on American television with guest starring roles on “Dark Angel” (Fox, 2000-02),“Stargate SG-1” (Showtime/Sci Fi Channel, 1997-2007) and “Jake 2.0” (UPN, 2003-04), while continuing to appear on Canadian-based shows like “The Immortal” (Syndicated, 2000-01). In 2003, she took a giant leap forward in her career when she was cast as Lieutenant Sharon “Boomer” Valerii on the revamped version of “Battlestar Galactica” (Sci Fi Channel, 2003), a three-hour miniseries that launched the acclaimed sci-fi series that followed in 2004.
The series focused on the last remaining humans after a catastrophic war with the man-made Cylons, who relentlessly pursue the survivors as they search desperately for Earth. Though in the original 1978 series, Boomer was played by an African-American man (Herb Jefferson, Jr.) and was generally seen as a minor supporting player, Park’s Boomer became a catalyst for much of the action, especially when it was revealed that she was a Cylon sleeper agent programmed to think she’s human, complete with memories of a childhood on another planet.
Park has a role in the 2007 movie West 32nd, a crime drama dealing with New York City’s Korean underworld. She appeared as Lt. Sandra Telfair in Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Tricia Helfer.
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