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Jean Yoon(I)

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Jean Yoon is a playwright and actress born in Illinois and raised in Toronto. Jean has lived and worked in Vancouver, Edmonton, Harbin City and Yanji City in North Eastern China and makes her home in Toronto.

Jean began her career in Toronto in the early 1980s performing with now long gone companies such as Upstage Theatre, Toronto Free Theatre and Canasian Artists Group. In the 1990s, Jean was active as a cultural equity advocate and new play producer. She was Cross Cultural Coordinator for Theatre Ontario 1991/92, and then Co-Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Projects 1992 to early 1994, founding Lift Off! and cementing Cahoots' role as a leader in new play development for playwrights of diverse cultures.

Jean's playwriting credits include the Dora-nominated stage play, The Yoko Ono Project, a multimedia performance art comedy, produced by Loud Mouth Asian Babes and Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, January 2000, and published by Broken Jaw Press. Jean's comedic adaptation of a classic Korean folktale Hongbu & Nolbu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins premiered at Young Peoples Theatre in 2005 and was published in Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas, edited by Esther Kim Lee, Duke University Press in 2012. Other playwriting credits include Sliding for Home, Spite, and Yes Yoko Solo.

Jean's stage credits include Necessary Angel, Young Peoples Theatre, Factory, Tarragon, Cahoots Theatre Projects, Crows, Civilized Theatre and Die in Debt. Jean originated the role "Umma" in the Toronto Fringe production of Kim's Convenience in 2011 and performed the show at Soulpepper Theatre, The Grand Theatre London, National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Aquarius and the Capitol Theatre in Port Hope.

Jean is well-known for her work as Umma in the CBC comedy series Kim's Convenience. She is also known for work on The Expanse, Orphan Black, Dragon Boys and The Time Traveler's Wife. Jean voices Connie on the Emmy Award winning PBS Kids show Peg + Cat; and is especially proud of her work on the CBC mini-series Dragon Boys for which she earned a Gemini nomination in 2007.
BornMay 4, 1962
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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon in Birds of a Feather (2020)
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon in Thinkin' About Inkin' (2020)
Jean Yoon in In the Bedroom (2020)
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon in Bon Voyage (2020)
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon in Kim's Convenience (2016)
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon in Kim's Convenience (2016)
Jean Yoon in Kim's Convenience (2016)
Jean Yoon in Kim's Convenience (2016)
Greg Bryck, Steven Strait and Jean Yoon on "The Expanse," season 1.
Jean Yoon as Cpt. Theresa Yao on "The Expanse," season 1
Jean Yoon
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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, and Simu Liu in Kim's Convenience (2016)
Kim's Convenience
8.2
TV Series
  • Umma
Shohreh Aghdashloo, Wes Chatham, Steven Strait, Frankie Adams, Cara Gee, and Dominique Tipper in The Expanse (2015)
The Expanse
8.5
TV Series
  • Captain Theresa Yao
Dragon Boys (2007)
Dragon Boys
7.1
TV Series
  • Belinda Lok
Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black (2013)
Orphan Black
8.3
TV Series
  • Janis Beckwith

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Actress

  • The Horror of Dolores Roach
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  • The Incident Report
    • Post-production
  • T-Bone
    • Post-production
  • Making Scents of Love
  • Hamza Haq in Transplant (2020)
    Transplant
  • Sydney Sweeney, Ben Hardy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, and Justice Smith in The Voyeurs (2021)
    The Voyeurs
  • Donald MacLean Jr., Tiera Skovbye, Natasha Calis, Jordan Johnson-Hinds, and Sandy Sidhu in Nurses (2020)
    Nurses
  • Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, and Simu Liu in Kim's Convenience (2016)
    Kim's Convenience
  • Jean Yoon and Lexie Galante in Nocturne Falls (2020)
    Nocturne Falls
  • Cynthia Dale, Cara Ricketts, Steve Lund, and Yvonne Chapman in Street Legal (2019)
    Street Legal
  • Elliot the Littlest Reindeer (2018)
    Elliot the Littlest Reindeer
    • (voice)
  • In Contempt (2018)
    In Contempt
  • Roger Cross, Jodelle Ferland, Anthony Lemke, Zoie Palmer, Melissa O'Neil, and Alex Mallari Jr. in Dark Matter (2015)
    Dark Matter
  • Sadie Munroe and Tyler Shaw in The Meaning of Life (2017)
    The Meaning of Life
  • John Bourgeois, Fab Filippo, Suresh John, Amy Matysio, Loretta Yu, and Onyekachi Ejim in Save Me (2017)
    Save Me
  • John Lives Again (2017)
    John Lives Again
  • Sean Teale in Incorporated (2016)
    Incorporated
  • Shoot the Messenger (2016)
    Shoot the Messenger

Writer

  • Jean Yoon and May Wong in A Brighter Moon (1986)
    A Brighter Moon

Soundtrack

  • Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Jean Yoon, Andrea Bang, and Simu Liu in Kim's Convenience (2016)
    Kim's Convenience
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Videos9

Jean Yoon Demo 2019: The Expanse, Kim's Convenience, Street Legal, Dragon Boys.
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Jean Yoon Demo 2019: The Expanse, Kim's Convenience, Street Legal, Dragon Boys.
Empire of Dirt
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Empire of Dirt
Empire of Dirt
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Empire of Dirt
Empire of Dirt
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Empire of Dirt
Rupture
Trailer 1:25
Rupture
Wedding Palace
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Wedding Palace
Compulsion
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Compulsion
Kim's Convenience
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Kim's Convenience
From Stage to Screen
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From Stage to Screen

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    • May 4, 1962
    • Champaign, Illinois, USA
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    Played the mother of Knives Chau in a scene deleted from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010).

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