![]() Chan played geologist Mia Bennett in The Waters of Mars (2009), starring David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan, which aired 15 November 2009 in the UK. She has been photographed by Rankin for a campaign for Nivea Visage, having previously worked as a model in order to fund her studies and drama school training. In 2006, Chan was one of the models in series one of Project Catwalk, the UK version of Project Runway. Spotted at her showcase by British film producer Damian Jones, she signed to acting agent Nicki van Gelder. Following graduation, Chan gained a training contract offer as a graduate at the law firm Slaughter and May, but instead pursued an acting career and studied at the Drama Centre London. She later went on to read law at Worcester College, Oxford. Chan was raised near Sevenoaks, Kent, and attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Orpington, Bromley, London. Her mother, a pharmacist at Guy's Hospital, emigrated from pre-Cultural Revolution Communist China via Hong Kong with her parents (Chan's maternal grandparents) and younger sister, growing up in Greenock, Scotland. Her father grew up in Hong Kong and was an engineer. Chan was born at Guy's Hospital in London, England. Chan made a film for Amnesty International to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She also appeared in the feature films Exam (2009) and Paramount Pictures' action-thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014). She played Charlotte in season four of the Showtime and ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) Ruth in Channel 4's Fresh Meat (2011) Mia Bennett in The Waters of Mars (2009), and Soo Lin in The Blind Banker (2010). She also had a role in Transformers: the Last Knight, which is not based on a book but is part of a franchise that includes both novels and comic books.Gemma Chan (born 29 November 1982) is a British film, television, and theatre actress and former fashion model. ![]() She had a lead role in Stratton, based on the novel the novels by Duncan Falconer. In animation, she voiced Snow White in Revolting Rhymes, based on Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, and Dewdrop in Watership Down, based on the novel by Richard Adams. She played an American witch in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. (As an aside, she has never been in a Fast & Furious movie, and I think that’s a terrible oversight.) She appeared in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, based on the character Jack Ryan created by Tom Clancy in The Hunt for Red October, as one of the secondary female leads. In 2013 she performed in two plays - Our Ajax by Timberlake Wertenbaker at Southwark Playhouse and Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang at the Park Theatre, London - and appeared in the movie The Double, based on the novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.īeginning in 2014, Chan’s bookish roles came fast and furious. Her character, Charlotte, was a rival of Billie Piper’s Belle. ![]() In 2011, Chan appeared in six episodes of series 4 of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, based on the pseudonymous memoir The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour. Also in 2010, she appeared in Submarine, based on the novel Submarine by Joe Dunthorne. A year later she appeared in the Sherlock episode “The Blind Banker,” which was loosely based on the Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Dancing Men” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. She attended Worcester College at the University of Oxford, where she studied law before she enrolled at the Drama Centre London and began acting.Ĭhan made her television debut in 2006, her stage debut in 2007 or 2008 (sources differ on the details), and in 2009 she had a guest spot on Doctor Who, playing geologist Mia Bennett in the episode “Waters of Mars.” This was sadly not one of the episodes that was novelized in the New Series Adventures, though several contemporaneous episodes were. ![]() Her father emigrated from Hong Kong as did her mother’s parents her mother was raised in Scotland. Gemma Chan was born on November 29, 1980, and grew up in London. ![]() Twitter: All posts by Annika Barranti Klein Annika Barranti Klein Contributing EditorĪnnika Barranti Klein likes books, obviously. ![]()
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