Anna Daniels
In addition to the crazy amount of feature and voice work that has been coming Chung’s way in recent years, she’s also found time to star on a few of the most entertaining genre series of recent years. Between 2012 and 2016, she popped up in the role of Mulan on a dozen episodes of ABC’s fairytale deconstruction, Once Upon a Time, and brought her talents to the Fox network’s Gotham during that series’ season 3 “Mad City” arc. More recently, Chung starred on The Gifted, a Fox series produced in association with Marvel Television and tangentially related to the Fox-produced X-Men movies. In it, Chung portrayed Clarice Fong, aka Blink, a mutant with the power of teleportation. While the series was well-received, it was an unfortunate casualty of Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox’s television and film assets, and was canceled in 2019 after two seasons, roughly a month after the deal closed.
An actress of Chung’s talent, though, is never out of work for too long. Soon, you’ll be able to catch her as Ji-Ah, a nursing student with dark secrets, on Lovecraft Country, the HBO original series that’s a co-production of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw production houses (via HBO). The series is expected to premiere later this year. Also on tap is a role in The Misfits, a heist flick from veteran action director Renny Harlin co-starring Pierce Brosnan, Tim Roth, and Nick Cannon. The flick is also set to debut in late 2020, although no official release date has been set.
The high-profile parts certainly seem to be stacking up for Jamie Chung, lately, and it’s no wonder, as she’s one of the hardest-working women in Hollywood. We wouldn’t be too surprised to see her elbowing her way onto Tinseltown’s A-list very soon, and we can’t wait to see what she does next.
Written by: Looper
