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Actress Grace Park Plays Akani Cuesta in ‘The Cleaner’

Grace Park Plays Akani Cuesta in The Cleaner TV Series

Asian-Canadian actress Grace Park, born March 14, 1974, has made a name for herself in the sci-fi world with her character Sharon Valerii, also known as Number 8, on the Sci-Fi Channel’s hit show Battlestar Galactica. Since the filming of the final episodes (the show is set to end in spring of 2009), she has guested on a number of shows and is now a regular on A&E’s The Cleaner.

Grace Park The Cleaner Scene Shot

Born in Los Angeles, Park moved to Canada at the age of 22 months. She grew up in Vancouver with her younger sister and parents in a middle class setting where she learned Korean, but otherwise had an average Western upbringing. In 1992, she graduated from Magee Secondary School, one of the largest public high schools in Vancouver.

After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a degree in psychology, she decided to take only a year off to try acting. She started out modeling, but was almost immediately cast in the Canadian teen show Edgemont as Shannon Ng. Edgemont lasted five seasons, and Park went on to guest star on such

Grace Park in Battlestar Galactica

shows as The Immortal, The Outer Limits, Dark Angel, Stargate: SG-1, Jake 2.0, The Dead Zone, and Andromeda, as well as landing small film roles in Romeo Must Die and Fluffy, before landing the role of Sharon “Boomer” Valerii in the remake of Battlestar Galactica in 2003.

Actress Grace Park In Public

Since then, she has played Lila Lee in the feature film West 32nd, a young woman who gets pulled into New York’s Korean drug underworld, and Hannah Moon, the sister of the lead character in indie film Run Rabbit Run (also featuring Battlestar Galactica co-star Tahmoh Penikett). Before landing the role of Akani Cuesta on A&E’s The Cleaner, she had a six episode arc as Special Agent Liz Carver on the crime drama The Border, and recently finished shooting the film Punctured, playing the part of Honey.

Park married her husband Phil Kim, a real estate developer, in 2004. They reside in Vancouver, although a great portion of her work nowadays takes her to Los Angeles. She speaks English and Korean and a small amount of French, and is learning Spanish. Her hobbies include traveling and extreme sports. She has been to France, India and South America, and her favorite sport is snowboarding.

Her favorite movies are Fight Club and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In 2006, Park was named #93 in Maxim Online’s Hot 100 List, something no doubt in part due to her steamy spread in March 2005’s issue of the popular magazine. In 2005, she made #81. Sharon Valerii, the role she is best known for, has been a critical part of Battlestar Galactica, fostering questions about how human the Cylons are in fact, and if they have the ability to make choices for themselves that lie beyond their original programming.Sharon has had one of the more painful character arcs on the show, as she battles through fighting against said programming, having a relationship with a human despite the heavy disapproval of those in the Colonial Fleet, and the mystery surrounding her daughter Hera, who seems to embody the human/Cylon conundrum.

Sexy Grace Park

Most recently, Park has played Akani Cuesta on the A&E show The Cleaner, a show starring former Law & Order cast member Benjamin Bratt as William Banks, a character loosely based on the life of Warren Boyd, an addictions counselor who has helped numerous high profile clients such as Mel Gibson, Courtney Love, and Whitney Houston. Cuesta is a member of William “The Cleaner”’s team, and an independent, street-wise woman. The show, which shoots in Los Angeles, has recently been renewed for a second season.

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