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| GWENDOLINE YEO was born and raised on the tiny island nation of Singapore and moved to the United States as a teenager. She received her BA from UCLA before the age of 20, graduating summa cum laude, phi beta kappa as well as receiving a diploma in Classical Piano from the esteemed San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her love of music led her to specialize in playing the Chinese Long Zither (“gu-zheng”) which culminated in a one woman radio show on NPR-KCRW. It also included the debut of her first two zither/vocal tracks “Kiss My Grits” and “Lovers.” Gwendoline was crowned Miss Chinatown USA in 1998/9 which led her to hosting and commercials. From there, her TV and film career blossomed. | ||||
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Film
Sci-fi thriller “NIGHT SKIES” where she plays June Lau. The indie film draws inspiration from the notorious Phoenix Lights UFO phenomenon that took place over Nevada and Arizona on March 13, 1997 where five friends run into more than they bargained for. SFX chief turned director Roy Knyrim (CEMETERY GATES) directs. Now available on DVD. Other film credits: A fun cameo in Sergio Arau’s “A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN.” and starred alongside Kerri Russell, Skeet Ulrich and Mare Winningham in Hallmark’s “THE MAGIC OF ORDINARY DAYS,” a movie about the Japanese internment in the 1940s. She also plays Dr. Samantha Yep in Robin Swicord’s “THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB” to be released by Sony. Comedy Commercials / Voice-over VO commercials include HONDA, NESTLE, HP, CORONA (English and Mandarin), BLACK MAGIC, WORLDCOM EXCHANGE (singing jingles in Mandarin and Cantonese), the BAMBOO CLUB, as well as the voice of demure Star in the ORBITZ.COM campaign. Latest promo work include the Gwen Stefani’s music video campaign with HP, promo campaign for feature MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, and NBC’s Winter Olympics. She was thrilled when asked to narrate Amy Tan’s hit THE JOYLUCK CLUB as an audiobook. Hosting/Spokesperson She’s played spokesperson and host for ad campaigns for GTE, IBM and Microsoft/MSN. Gwendoline was crowned Miss Chinatown USA which led her to hosting. |
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Animation Voice of evil and domineering “Lady Deathstrike” in Sony Playstation II games X-MEN and WOLVERINE’S REVENGE. Also starring as kick ass Ohatsu in “BURADEN 4”, as Luvia Bloodmire in BALDUR’S GATE, as Astroboy in ONIMUSHA BLADE WARRIORS, the regal British queen in GOD OF WAR, the crazy and wacky Spite in LEGENDS OF ALTADOR, Maidenrock in BRAVE, and also roles in TENCHU III & NARC. Cartoons: Guest star credits include FAMILY GUY, the new STAR WARS series, KIM POSSIBLE as one of the total attitude fashionistas, Lt. Keiko Tanaka in the new SCOOBY DOO, “the Dentist” and singing robustly on HIGGLYTOWN HEROES. Title role of Sho-girl in Klasky / Csupo’s pilot BENCH PRESSLEY AND SHO-GIRL directed by legendary Gabor Csupo. Other credits include starring as really evil villians Ubume and Nubatama in MTV’s NINJA SCROLL. JUNIPER LEE as Juniper’s wannabe actress cousin Lisa and Ah Mah’s nasty older sister Lily, as the repo girls in ASTROBOY and the wise Fox in HELLBOY. In new STAR WARS series coming soon to Cartoon Network. Characters: Nala Se, Cato, Peppi Bow (see New Force for ‘Clone,’ Lucasfilm Theatre Starred as Dr. Jane Young in acclaimed writer Murray Mednick’s MRS FEURENSTEIN, a psychologist trying to help her patient (Maria Obrian) who believes she is the avenger of the Jews. Directed by Roxanne Rogers. Plays with Cornerstone Theatre include: ANTIGONE (Shishir Kurup), BROKEN HEARTS (Bill Rauch) and A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY (Chay Yew co-produced with The Mark Taper). Other credits include: Milton Katselas’ written and directed FOUR, playing Kate in the “Rite of Spring” at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Nina in THE SEAGULL at the Hudson Theater. Also starred as “Phoenix” in Henry Ong’s adaptation of DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER. |
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Shot in Calgary, Canada, the AMC mini-series “BROKEN TRAIL” put the network at #1, and was nominated for three Golden Globe awards and 16 Emmys, winning 4 Emmys including Best Mini-Series 2007. Yeo was nominated for a 2007 best actress in a drama NAMIC vision award for portraying the role of Sun Fu. An old fashioned Western with a twist, Yeo plays “number 3”, a stolen girl from mainland China forced into prostitution until she is saved by Prentis Ritter (Robert Duvall) and his nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church). She refuses to succumb to the brutality from the years before and even finds love in the most difficult of circumstances. Directed by the legendary Walter Hill. 
Thriller 7EVENTY 5IVE is a “Scream”-esque indie executive produced by Magic Johnson with Music by Wyclef. She and her partner Rutger Hauer (Blade, Batman Begins), play detectives on a hunt involving college murders. Scheduled for 2007 release.
Resident Artist of Second City LA. LOS ANGELES SOAP (Long form improv format in soap opera style) playing recovering sexaholic and alcoholic Whang Whang directed by Joe Flaherty, guest starring Martin Short, Fred Willard and Catherine O’Hara. Former company member of ACME comedy theatre. Improv at the Groundlings.
Comedies include guest starring as snoopy reporter Bree Samuels on Disney’s HANNAH MONTANA, recurring on GROUNDED FOR LIFE, also Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ WATCHING ELLIE, and THE RANDOM YEARS. She also guest starred on Joel Surnow’s (creator, 24) sketch show on Fox News Channel HALF HOUR NEWS HOUR.
On ABC Daytime, she recurred as sophisticated & sexy Dr. Kelly Lee on sinful sudser GENERAL HOSPITAL
She also guest starred on NBC’s dramedy CHUCK kicking butt as a Chinese spy on this new series.
Best known for wry and sexy Paine in FINAL FANTASY X-2, and spin off into KINGDOM HEARTS 2.
