Gemma Chan

Biography of Gemma Chan

Gemma Chan was born on November 29, 1982 in London, United Kingdom.

She is the daughter of an engineer who grew up in Hong Kong and a pharmacist who grew up in Greenock, Scotland, after her parents emigrated to Europe. She sister of Helen Chan.

She studied at Newstead Wood School for Girls in Orpington, London and then studied law at Worcester College, Oxford. After graduating, she turned down a job offer at the law firm Slaughter and May, to study acting at the Drama Center London.

Classically trained in violin and piano, she obtained the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) Diploma in violin while she was still at school.

He played supporting roles in series like Project Catwalk (2006), Doctor Who (2009), Sherlock(2010), Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2011), Fresh Meat (2011), Bedlam (2012), True Love (2012), Death in Paradise (2013) or The Game (2014), among others.

From 2015 to 2018, she played the role of Anita / Mia, an android belonging to the Hawkins family in the British science fiction series Humans.

She subsequently appeared in Hotel Transylvania: The Series (2017-2020) and Thunderbirds Are Go (2020). A year later she was selected to be part of the cast of the American series Extrapolations, along with Meryl Streep, Kit Harington and Edward Norton.

He made his film debut in 2006 with the feature film When Evil Calls, which would be followed by, among others, Exam (2009), Shanghai (2010), Submarine (2010), Jack Ryan:Shadow Recruit (2014), Familles (2015), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017).

In 2018, she played Astrid Leong-Teo, fashion icon and socialite, in the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018), a performance for which, along with the rest of the cast, she was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award. for Outstanding Casting in a Motion Picture.

She acted as Hardwick's Bess in the historical drama Mary Queen of Scots (2018) and as Minn-Erva in the superhero film Captain Marvel (2019). A year later, she was cast in the role of Shelley in Don't Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde and opening on September 23, 2022.

During 2021 she voiced the antagonist Namaari in Disney's animated film Raya and the Last Dragon and starred in Eternals, as Sersi, an empathetic Eternal with a strong connection to humans and Earth.

She was related to English comedian Jack Whitehall from 2011 to 2017.

She began another relationship with actor Dominic Cooper in 2018.