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Grace Park Profile |
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Birth Date: March 14, 1974
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Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Birth Name: Grace Park
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Height: 5'9"
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Biography |
Grace Park is an American-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.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Park and her family moved
to Canada when she was 22 months old. She was raised in the
Vancouver neighborhood of Kerrisdale. Grace Park graduated
from Magee Secondary in 1992, holds a degree in psychology
from the University of British Columbia, and speaks English
and Korean. 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.
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.
She most recently has had co-starring roles in the A&E
series The Cleaner and the CBC series The Border. |
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Other
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Started out as a model.
Loves extreme sports and travelling.
Speaks English and Korean in the family home, knows a little
French (being raised and educated in Canada
After graduating from college, wanted to try acting for only
a year, but ended up getting a teen show called "Edgemont"
(2000) right away.
Born in Los Angeles, but moved to Canada at 22 months.
Considers herself a Canadian native, but always a Korean
first.
Named #81 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
Made #93 Maxim "Hot 100" list of 2006 |
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since December 19, 2008