"It’s simply about impacting people in some way through my art, that brings me such joy.” 

Gwendoline Yeo immigrated from Singapore to San Francisco at eleven skipping the 6th grade - a self described ugly duckling with a tough childhood, Things turned around when she won Miss Teen Chinatown SF, Miss Asian America (where she also won Miss Talent & Miss Congeniality) and finally, Miss Chinatown USA. She graduated from UCLA a year early Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa at the age of 19. She also has a diploma in piano from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

She waitress-ed until she got her dramatic breakthrough role starring "Number3" alongside Robert Duvall in Broken Trail which garnered her a NAMIC Vision award nomination for best supporting actress. Her comedic breakthrough was as Xiao-Mei on Desperate Housewives where she was eventually offered a Series Regular contract.

She recurred on American Crime and guested on other hit shows like NCIS, Greys Anatomy, Castle, The Mentalist & Chuck. She also starred in Emmy nominated American Girl: Ivy & Julie. She won two best actress awards - Houston International Film Festival and the Iowa Film Festival for indie feature Heathens & Thieves. She's got three action figures - Paine in Final Fantasy X-2, Domino in X-Men & Cato Parasitti bounty hunter from Star Wars Clone wars. She's voiced about 50 other games and cartoons. 

To watch her one woman show titled "Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open" that tells her coming of age story which the LA Times described as "Hilarious...Poignant...Brilliant.", go to YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SXPn8Im1Qvk