Gemma Chan Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Executive producer , Screenwriter
Birth name Evelyn Gemma Chan
British nationality
Birth November 29, 1982 (London, Great Britain)

BIOGRAPHY
Born to an engineer father and a pharmacist mother, Gemma Chan turned, after high school, to study law but harbored dreams of cinema. With this in mind, she studied at the Drama Center in London and multiplied the castings. At the same time and to finance her project, she works as a model for numerous magazines and prestigious brands.

Gemma Chan finds her first role in two episodes of the series When Evil Calls. She continued with Cell: Season 2, then appeared in the psychological thriller Exam . In 2010, she starred in the films Pimp and Submarine . In her early days, the actress was mainly active on the small side. We can see her in Sherlock , Diary of a Call Girl , True Love , Bedlam and The Game .

In the cinema, Gemma Chan stars in the fantasy film The Double (2013), the action film The Ryan Initiative (2014), the French comedy-drama Belles famille (2015), as well as the blockbusters Fantastic Beasts (2016) and Transformers : The Last Knight (2017). Between 2015 and 2018, she found an important role in the SF series Humans , that of the domestic robot Anita / Mia.

As her fame grew, Gemma Chan played Astrid Young in Crazy Rich Asians , a romantic comedy which enjoyed considerable commercial success. In 2018, she joined the MCU with Captain Marvel via the character of sniper Minn-Erva. Then, she remains in this universe with Les Eternels (2021), in which she plays another protagonist: Sersi. Between the two blockbusters, the London native takes part in Steven Soderbergh

‘s original dramatic comedy The Great Crossing and plays the protagonist of the thriller Intrigo: dear Agnès . The actress is also active in dubbing as evidenced by her performances in A Tale May Hide Another , Rabbit Hill and Raya and the Last Dragon . Laurent Schenck