Gemma Chan

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1982 age 0

   Born

2. 2014 age 32

   CreditJack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

3. 2018 age 36

   CreditCrazy Rich Asians

   CreditMary Queen of Scots

4. 2019 age 37

   CreditCaptain Marvel

5. 2021 age 39

   CreditEternals

6. 2022 age 40

   CreditDon't Worry Darling

7. 2023 age 41

   CreditThe Creator

• KFKevin Feige2 titles
• BDBen Davis2 titles
• CPChris Pine2 titles
• HSHarry Styles2 titles
• HZHans Zimmer1 title
• RDRamin Djawadi1 title
• KHKit Harington1 title
• RMRichard Madden1 title
• NANonso Anozie1 title
• SLStan Lee1 title

• Partner

  • DCDominic Cooper
  • JWJack Whitehall

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• I mean, God. I have friends who are so happily married with 3 children, on their third, some friends who’ve done it who are struggling with elements of it, and other friends who have no interest in it, are free and single. Yeah. It’s weird. I do find it strange that in your 30s, suddenly, you become more aware that, if I’m going to do it, try to have a biological child, I need to think about it now. Sorry, I don’t have anything to add to that.

  Gemma Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Both my parents are immigrants. They came from nothing, had to work so hard, and so the idea for them, I suppose, of taking a risk, that wasn’t a luxury they had. I always knew that was the luxury and privilege that I had, that they had given me.

  Gemma Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0

• As a little girl, I was quite self-conscious about my Asian features. A few kids made fun of the shape of my eyes. All the Barbies had blond hair and blue eyes, and I remember wishing I didn’t look the way I did – I was the only girl of colour in the area. But now I’ve got older, I’ve realised what makes you different is your strength.

  Gemma Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My mom was born in China, and she grew up in Scotland. And my dad was born in Macau. He grew up in Hong Kong. Then he had a kind of crazy life before he settled down and had kids and married my mom. But he ended up going to college in Scotland, where he met my mom. And then they moved down to London and had my sister and I.

  Gemma Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think I have a quite holistic kind of approach to it all, which is that I think you should take care of yourself on the inside, but also take care of yourself on the outside, and they will feed each other. My beauty ritual is something that I find very calming. It can definitely give you a lift if you're feeling a bit tired or you're feeling a bit down. You can kind of go through your steps, and it's kind of quite meditative, really.

  Gemma Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think the appeal for me was several different things. I was quite shy when I was a child and I’d always done drama and music and that was really my outlet where I felt I could be really free. I’ve always been really interested in other people, and other people’s lives, and as an actor you get to experience, to a certain degree, walking in other people’s shoes and seeing things through their eyes. That, for me, was what appealed, I think initially.

  Gemma Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom, People's Republic of China

Height

175 cm

Languages

English

Years active

2006–

Education

Drama Centre London, Newstead Wood School, Worcester College