Grace Park

American-Canadian actress and model Grace Park is internationally famous for many roles, including Sharon “Boomer” Valerii and Sharon “Athena” Agathon, two copies of the humanoid Number Eight in Battlestar Galactica, Kono Kalakaua in all seven series of the Hawaii Five-O reboot, Shannon Ng in the Canadian teen drama Edgemont, and most recently, Katherine Kim in the ABC family drama A Million Little Things. She was thrice nominated for the Choice TV Actress award at the Teen Choice Awards.

Park was born in Los Angeles to Korean parents, but the family relocated north to Vancouver when Park was a toddler. She began appearing in television roles in her early twenties, and she was 25 when she got her major break — playing a high-school student in the Canadian drama series Edgemont, which, despite being set in a high school, attracted a mostly adult audience. However, it was the joint role of Boomer/Athena in Battlestar Galactica that made Park’s name internationally. The landmark series ran from 2003 and 2009 and became a landmark series for fans of sci-fi TV.

After playing leading roles in The Cleaner and The Border (and being nominated for a Gemini Award for her work in the latter), Park got her next major role when she began playing Kono in Hawaii Five-O, a CBS reboot of the classic 1970s police series. The show was a big success, eventually running for ten seasons, with Park co-starring in the first seven. She went straight from that into a leading role in the similarly successful A Million Little Things.