Sumalee Montano
| Sumalee Montano | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 3, 1972 Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Actress, voice actress |
| Years active | 1991-Present |
| Website | www |
Sumalee Montano (born August 3, 1972) is an American actress and voice actress, born in Columbus, Ohio, United States. She worked as an investment bank analyst in New York City and Hong Kong before starting her acting career, and is also a writer. She has acted in ER, Minority Report, The West Wing, Boston Legal, Bones, Nip/Tuck, Hancock, and Commander in Chief. As a voice actor, she provided the voices of Mystique in X-Men: Destiny, Yerema in Dead Island, Cali in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Arcee in Transformers: Prime and Mera in Justice League Throne of Alantis. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to work on her career.
Montano is of Filipino and Thai descent and grew up mostly in the United States, but also spent a few years in Bangkok, Thailand. During her high school career, she began acting as an extracurricular.
She graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1993 and is a U.S. Fulbright scholar. After graduation, she worked as an investment-banking analyst for Morgan Stanley for a few years. After realizing investment banking wasn't something she was passionate about, Montano quit and went backpacking through Africa before realizing she wanted to pursue acting professionally.
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