Gwendoline Yeo, The Actress

Materials:

• IMDb Entry
• Quick Biography

Management:

Theatrical Representation:

• Theatrical Demo — Drama
• Theatrical Demo — Comedy

Commercial:

For Hosting Requests, contact
The Pitt Group Managment

• Hosting Demo

Voice-Over:

• Commercial Voice-Over Demo
• Animation Voice-Over Demo

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 1998-99 which led her to hosting and commercials. From there, her TV and film career blossomed.

Film

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.

As femme fatale, KUN HUA, in the film noir western, HEATHENS & THIEVES, shot on location in Etna, California. With Andy Simpson and Don Swayze.

The indie comedy FREELOADERS, pairing the comedic group Broken Lizard with Adam Duritz, lead singer of the “Counting Crows”. Gwendoline plays Suki, Adam’s fiancé.

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.

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, a Sony release.

Comedy

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.

Commercials / Voice-over

On-camera commercials include national spots for THREE MUSKETEERS, MCDONALD’S, IBM, JEEP/DODGE, Capital One Visa, Campbell’s Soup and VERIZON, as well as COMPUSA, CARROWS, TOYOTA, SKETCHERS and JOURNEYS shoes. Also spokesperson for IBM, GTE and Microsoft.

VO commercials include HONDA, NESTLE, HP, CORONA (English and Mandarin), BLACK MAGIC, WORLDCOM EXCHANGE (singing jingles in Mandarin and Cantonese), the BAMBOO CLUB, TURBO TAX as well as the voice of demure Star in the ORBITZ.COM campaign.

Latest promo work includes the Gwen Stefani’s music video campaign with HP, promo campaign for feature MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, and NBC’s Winter Olympics. And the trailer voice for THE MUMMY III.

Yeo was thrilled when invited to narrate Amy Tan’s hit THE JOYLUCK CLUB and THE KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE as audiobooks. She also has done other audiobooks for Phoenix books since including The O’Henry Prize Stories and SKINNY BITCH BUN IN THE OVEN.

Hosting/Spokesperson

Field correspondent for NBC pilot IT’S YOUR SHOW WITH CARSON DALY. She guest hosted for CCTV interviewing such celebs as Placido Domingo. She hosted for a few TV pilots including Bravo, A&E’s D-LIFE, an ABC morning talk show, FOX’s SELLING YOUR SOUL and WB’s music video countdown show SCRATCH.

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.

TV

In television, Gwendoline cleaned up on primetime as Eva’s naughty maid to the Solis’ recurring in seasons two and three of ABC’s DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES as Xiao-Mei. She was thrilled to be submitted by Marc Cherry to be on the Emmy nomination ballot for Best Guest Star in a Drama.

Dramas include recurring roles on 24 (Agent Melissa Raab, Day Four), and guest stints on THE MENTALIST, CHUCK, THE BEAST, ELI STONE, STANDOFF, JAG, The OC, JUDGING AMY and the series finale of NYPD BLUE.

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.

Animation

Games:

Best known for wry and sexy Paine in FINAL FANTASY X-2, and spin off into KINGDOM HEARTS 2.

Voices for UNCHARTERED 2, SOCOM 4, and the upcoming GOD OF WAR video games. The 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 and NARC.

Cartoons:

Stars in Marvel Comic’s feature film IRONMAN as his love interest, Lee Ann.

In STAR WARS: CLONE WARS series on Cartoon Network, characters: Nala Se, Cato, Peppi Bow (see New Force for ‘Clone,’ Lucasfilm)

Recurring role on Nick Teen’s GIGANTIC; series regular on new STITCH! series as Gramma, X-men series (as DOMINO), as caring mom & snooty Lulu on Disney’s SAFETY PATROL, and as the beautiful Li-Mei in ZATCH BELL. One of her favorite roles was when she was a regular as cold Korean wife “Hu Tindle” on Nickelodeon / Spike TV’s THIS JUST IN penned by Steve Marmel (Fairly Odd Parents).

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 villains 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.

Theatre

Winner of two DRAMALOGUE AWARDS. Starred in Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST at East West Players with a martial arts twist! Playing dual roles of Miranda and Ariel directed by Andrew Tsao. Vocals and the Chinese Zither specially written in for her by award-winning Nathan Wang.

Created her one-woman show, “Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open”, with 2010 performance for STORIESONSTAGE.COM. 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.

Training

BA, UCLA Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude. Diploma from The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Former teachers: Milton Katselas, Sal Romeo, Silvana Gallardo, Richard Brander and Brian Reise. Reporting at CNN and KCBS.

Skills

Besides music (see music page), speaks Chinese, various accents, some French. Enjoys martial arts (8th Kyu Shotokan Karate) and yoga.