Jean Yoon | |
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Born | 1962 (age 54–55) |
Occupation | Actress, poet, playwright |
Years active | 1998–present |
Jean Yoon (born 1962) is a Canadian actress, poet and playwright, based in Toronto. Her best-known role internationally was flight attendant Betty Ong in The Path to 9/11.
Her other film and television roles have included A Brighter Moon, Waking the Dead, Forget Me Never, Dragon Boys, In the Company of Spies, and La Femme Nikita. She played 'Dr. Montague' in The Time Traveller's Wife. She also played in the Disney channel original movie Cow Bells.
Yoon played 'Captain Theresa Yao' in the 2015 science fiction series The Expanse.
Her playwriting credits include Sliding for Home & Borders and The Yoko Ono Project.
She currently portrays 'Umma', the matriarch of the Kim family in Kim's Convenience, a sitcom which debuted in the fall of 2016 on CBC. She portrayed the same role in the 2011 play.