Gemma Chan was born November 29, 1982.
Gemma Chan is an English film, television, and theatre actress and former fashion model. She portrays Charlotte in season four of the Showtime and ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl; Ruth in Channel 4’s Fresh Meat; Mia Bennett in the BBC’s Doctor Who “The Waters of Mars” and Soo Lin in Sherlock. She also appeared in Exam and Paramount Pictures’ action-thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. She stars in Humans, an AMC/Channel 4 science-fiction drama, which premiered in June 2015.
In 2006, Chan was one of the models in season one of Project Catwalk, the UK version of Project Runway. She has been photographed by Rankin for a campaign for Nivea Visage, having previously worked as a model in order to fund her studies and drama school training, appearing in campaigns for Nokia and Selfridges and numerous magazines including Elle, Cosmopolitan and The Sunday Times Style.
Chan appeared in the autumn 2009 special of the BBC’s Doctor Who (“The Waters of Mars”) with David Tennant and Lindsay Duncan, which aired 15 November 2009 in the UK, playing geologist Mia Bennett. She was cast as a series regular in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the fourth and final series airing on ITV2 in the UK and Showtime in the US in 2011. She has also appeared in Fresh Meat, BBC One’s Sherlock, and the fourth series of The IT Crowd for Channel 4.
In 2012, Chan was a regular in season two of Sky Living’s supernatural drama Bedlam and in True Love, a five-part semi-improvised television series produced by Working Title for BBC One,
In 2013, she starred in new BBC One crime drama Shetland alongside Douglas Henshall and Steven Robertson and guest starred in the BBC’s Death In Paradise. She was a cast-member of Channel 4 romantic drama Dates.
Chan played the synthetic Anita/Mia in Humans, an AMC/Channel 4 eight-part science-fiction drama. Filming commenced in autumn 2014 with a June 2015 premiere.The second season premiered on 30th October. For her portrayal of Anita/Mia, Chan has been nominated for numerous awards.
In July 2016, Chan provided the voice for the character of Dewdrop in BBC One’s animated television series “Watership Down”.
In 2010, she appeared in the World War II drama film Shanghai, the psychological thriller Exam, and the 2011 comedy-drama Submarine. A supporter of human rights, she has also made a film for Amnesty International to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She also appeared in the action-thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. The Double, and London Fields. Chan starred in Belles familles, by French director and screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau, which premiered in 2015. She is scheduled to appear in film Crazy Rich Asians alongside Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh.
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