- Grace Park (actress)
Infobox actor
name = Grace Park
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birthname = Grace Park
birthdate = birth date and age|1974|3|14
birthplace =Los Angeles ,California
othername =
spouse = Phil Kim
website =Grace Park (born
March 14 1974 [ [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Sources:Grace_Park Sources:Grace Park at BattlestarWiki] ] [ [http://www.tv.com/grace-park-blog/the-confusion-over-grace-parks-real-birthday/topic/83722-645911/show_blog_entry.html&topic_id=645911| The confusion over Grace Park's real birthday] ] ) is an American-Canadian actress of Korean descent. She is best known asSharon 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".Biography
Born in
Los Angeles, California , Park and her family moved toCanada when she was 22 months old. She was raised in theVancouver [ [http://www.craveonline.com/filmtv/articles/04648074/battlestar_galactica_grace_park.html Battlestar Galactica: Grace Park] ] neighborhood ofKerrisdale . Grace Park graduated from Magee Secondary in 1992, holds a degree inpsychology from theUniversity of British Columbia , and speaks English and Korean, along with some French and Cantonese. She is currently studying Spanish. As of 2005, Park lives inVancouver with her husband, Korean real estate developer Phil Kim. She was named #93 in Maxim Online's 2006 Hot 100 List. [http://www.maximonline.com/slideshows/index.aspx?slideId=1998&imgCollectId=94 Maxim - 2006 Hot 100] ]Park has a role in the 2007 movie
West 32nd , [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844489/ IMDB - West 32nd] ] a crime drama dealing with New York City’s Korean underworld. [ [http://www.koreamjournal.com/Magazine/index.php/kj/2006/december__1/cover_story Cover Story / December / 2006 / Archives - KoreAm Journal ] ]She appeared as Lt. Sandra Telfair in Electronic Arts' "", along with her "Battlestar Galactica" co-star,
Tricia Helfer . [cite news |first = Mike |last = Bantick |title = EA delivers Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars on PC |url = http://www.itwire.com/content/view/10830/1092/ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM- |publisher = iTWire |date = 2007-03-27 |accessdate = 2007-04-04] [cite web |url = http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/c/commandandconquer3xbox360/default.htm |title = Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars |accessdate = 2007-04-04]Filmography
References
External links
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* [http://www.koreasociety.org/film_blog/portraits/grace_park_profile.html Grace Park's profile on The Korea Society's Film Journal]
* [http://www.filmbug.com/db/343503 Grace Park's biography on filmbug]
* [http://www.craveonline.com/filmtv/articles/04648074/battlestar_galactica_grace_park.html Battlestar Galactica: Grace Park]
* [http://www.thescifiworld.net/interviews/grace_park_02.htm Grace Park interview on The Scifi World] About season 3 & 4 of Galactica
* [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Grace_Park Grace Park on Battlestar Wiki]
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