American-Canadian actress Grace Park was born on March 14, 1974 in Los Angeles, California. Of Korean descent, her family moved to Vancouver, Canada when she was a year old. She graduated from the University of British Columbia, leaving with a degree in psychology. She initially started as a model, and then decided to pursue an acting career, if only for the short term. Her first acting credit was as an extra in the action flick Romeo Must Die, which was released in 2000. A year after, after playing several small roles in other series, she got her first regular television role. She joined the cast of the Canadian teen drama Edgemont, playing the role of student Shannon Ng. She held the role until the series finale in 2005.
In 2003, Park joined the cast of the miniseries Battlestar Galactica, a reimagining of the original science fiction series in the 1970s. She played the role of “Number Eight,” a collection of humanoid Cylon characters seen throughout the series in multiple capacities. Among them, two—Sharon “Boomer” Valerii and and Sharon “Athena” Agathon—are central characters in the series. The former is a sleeper agent who searches for her real identity, after being programmed to believe that she is human. The latter, fully-aware of her nature, was at one point involved romantically with ship officer Karl Agathon (Tahmoh Penikett) and carried his child.
In 2008, Park became a regular of another television series, The Cleaner. She played a recovering addict, Akani Cuesta, who works with the lead William Banks (Benjamin Bratt) to help others “clean” themselves of their habits.
Park also appeared in several other films. She appeared in releases such as Fluffy, West 32nd, and Jinnah On Crime: White Knight, Black Widow. She also made guest appearances in shows such as Jake 2.0, Andromeda and Stargate SG-1.
-Grace is known as the Raptor expert on the set of "Battlestar Galactica." She can name all the command and control, surveillance and weapons systems of the ship off the top of her head.
-Because of her major in psychology, Grace tends to psychoanalyze the characters she plays.
-Grace once danced for twenty straight hours.