Grace Lynn Kung

Ottawa native Grace Lynn Kung received a Gemini Award (Canada's Emmy equivalent) nomination for Best Leading Comedic Actress. Ms Kung for has worked with Academy and Tony Award winning actors like Eva Marie Saint and Rita Moreno, and with esteemed directors like Sarah Polley (Away from Her), Léa Pool (Lost and Delirious), Emmy winner Ron Murphy (Being Erica) and Gemini Award winning director Jerry Ciccoritti.

Screen credits include perky but delicate Emily Lu on �Slings and Arrows', nihilist Allison on �House Party', Erica's successor Meeri, on the international hit series �Being Erica' as well as P2, Blue State, Open House, Billable Hours, The Listener and Hypercube. She spent two years playing Agent JoJo Kwan on CBC's "InSecurity" and has just completed work on the feature, Cubicle Warriors with Laura Vandervoort and Alan Thicke.

Ms Kung has collaborated with playwrights like Judith Thompson and Jason Sherman as well as performing at Soulpepper Theatre, Canadian Stage, Factory Theatre, Tarragon, Canadian Rep, Native Earth and Fu-Gen Theatre Company. She portrayed writer-historian Iris Chang in the World Premiere of a nanking winter by Marjorie Chan with Nightwood Theatre.

She has lent her voice to documentaries, adverts and radio plays � both in Canada and England. A two-time recipient of the Jean Gascon Award for Acting, she holds two certificates of distinction in Speech and Drama from Trinity College London.

Credits include:

'a nanking winter'
Toronto, Nightwood Theatre, 2008

'La Ronde'
Toronto, Soulpepper, 2013

'Kim's Convenience'
London, The Grand Theatre, 2013

'Kim's Convenience'
Toronto, Soulpepper, 2013

'Yukonstyle'
Toronto, Canadian Stage, 2013