Born Jee Un Park on March 6, 1979 in Los Angeles, Grace Park's family moved to Vancouver while she was just a child. One would have thought her chances for fame and success as an actress would have been limited. But then Vancouver grew up to become North America's second Hollywood.
Grace Park also grew up, and she has taken the science fiction television audience by storm as the dynamic and ambivalent Cylon sleeper agent Sharon "Boomer" Valerii in Ronald D. Moore's new adaptation of Battlestar Galactica. Once a model, Grace cut her acting teeth on the CBC Network series Edgemont in the role of Shannon Ng. She has appeared in movies such as "Romeo Must Die" and "L.A. Law: The Movie", and has guest-starred on numerous television episodes for series like The Outer Limits, Dark Angel, The Immortal, and Stargate-SG1.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi ("Jahng Tz-Yee" - Zhang is her surname) grew up in, and still lives with, a working class family in Beijing, the daughter of an economist father and kindergarten teacher mother. She is the younger of two children. Her brother, who runs an advertising agency, works as her agent in China. She studied dance at the middle and secondary school attachments of the Beijing Dance Academy, specializing in folk dance, for which she won the 4th Annual National Young Dancer Competition in 1994.
