Jadyn Wong
Jadyn Wong | |
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![]() Wong at the 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival | |
Born | Alberta, Canada |
Jadyn Wong is a Canadian actress. She is best known for playing mechanical prodigy Happy Quinn on the CBS show Scorpion.[1][2] She has a black belt in karate and is also a classical pianist.[3]
Early life and education[]
Jadyn Wong was born in Canada[4] to immigrants from the then-British Hong Kong. She completed her Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Calgary.[5][3]
Career[]
Jadyn Wong made her professional acting debut in the Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated miniseries Broken Trail (2006), with Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall.[6] Her first audition, she was handpicked for the role by Duvall after hundreds of actresses were auditioned across North America. She appeared in Space Buddies (2009) as a Chinese reporter, as April Jung in the short film, (2010), a Money Channel Interviewer in Cosmopolis (2012), as Diondra in Debug (2014), as Molly in TV movie Client Seduction (2014). In 2016, she played Altagracia in Mexican comedy You're Killing Me Susana.[6]
From 2014 to 2018 Wong starred in the CBS television series Scorpion, as Happy Quinn.[7][8] In 2018, she joined the cast of Needle in a Timestack, a science fiction film written and directed by John Ridley.[9]
Filmography[]
Film[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2009 | Space Buddies | Chinese Reporter | |
2010 | The Letters | April Jung | Short film |
2012 | Cosmopolis | Money Channel Interviewer | |
2014 | Debug | Diondra | |
2016 | You're Killing Me Susana | ||
2021 | Needle in a Timestack | Zoe Mikkelsen |
Television[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2006 | Broken Trail | Ghee Moon (#1) | Mini-series |
2010 | Caprica | Game master | 2 episodes |
2011 | Rookie Blue | Mary Vu | Episode: "Brotherhood" |
Being Erica | Rachel | 6 episodes | |
Stay with Me | Li | Unaired CTV pilot | |
2014 | Lost Girl | Dao Ming | Episode: "Destiny's Child" |
Working the Engels | Shirl | Episode: "Pilot" | |
Spun Out | Esther Wing | Episode: "Carpoolers" | |
Client Seduction | Molly | TV film | |
2014–2018 | Scorpion | Happy Quinn[10][11] | Main cast (93 episodes) |
References[]
- ^ Bill Keveney (November 23, 2014). "'Scorpion' actors like to play it smart". USA TODAY. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
- ^ Robert Lloyd (September 22, 2014). "Review: Brainy nerds put IQs to use on 'Scorpion'; adventures ensue". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
- ^ a b Volmers, Eric (September 21, 2014). "Medicine Hat actress Jadyn Wong plays genius problem solver, and kicks some butt, in CBS action series Scorpion". Calgary Herald. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
- ^ TV.com. "Jadyn Wong". TV.com. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
- ^ Wong, Tony, "Scorpion's Jadyn Wong tickled to play Happy : Alberta actress talks about her role on hit CBS show and Happy's potential romance with Toby", Toronto Star, January 29, 2015
- ^ a b Aiden Mason. "Five Things You Didn't Know About Jadyn Wong". Tvovermind.com. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
- ^ " Fall 2014 TV: “Forever,” “Gotham” and “Scorpion”" Archived October 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. RogerEbert.com. by Brian Tallerico, September 18, 2014.
- ^ "Fall Television Shows With Asian American Actors" Archived December 28, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Audrey Magazine, September 12, 2014.
- ^ Amanda N'Duka (June 22, 2018). "'Scorpion' Actress Jadyn Wong Joins 'Needle In A Timestack'; Raymond J. Barry Cast In 'Made In Chinatown'". Deadline. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
- ^ Hinckley, David. "‘Scorpion,’ TV review ". New York Daily News
- ^ Goodman, Tim. "Scorpion': TV Review". Hollywood Reporter.
External links[]
- Jadyn Wong at IMDb
- Living people
- Actresses from Alberta
- Canadian actresses of Hong Kong descent
- 21st-century Canadian actresses
- Canadian film actresses
- Canadian television actresses
- People from Medicine Hat
- Canadian expatriate actresses in the United States
- Canadian actor stubs