Gemma Chan

Gemma Chan is an English actress. She is known for her role as Astrid in the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians. She also starred in the leading role of AnitaMia on the AMCChannel 4 science fiction drama Humans from 2015 to 2018. She portrayed Minn-Erva in the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain Marvel.

About Gemma Chan in brief

Summary Gemma ChanGemma Chan is an English actress. She is known for her role as Astrid in the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians, in which she received widespread recognition. She also starred in the leading role of AnitaMia on the AMCChannel 4 science fiction drama Humans from 2015 to 2018. She portrayed Minn-Erva in the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain Marvel in 2019 and will play Sersi in Eternals in 2021. Chan describes herself, and has been reported in media, as British Asian. She attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Orpington, London. She later went on to study jurisprudence at Worcester College, Oxford. In 2006, she was a competitor on the first series of the reality series Project Catwalk.

She appeared in the autumn 2009 special of the BBC’s Doctor Who, which aired 15 November 2009 in the UK, playing geologist Mia Bennett. She was cast as a series regular in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, the fourth and final series airing on ITV2 in UK and Showtime in the US in 2011. In 2012, Chan was a regular in series two of Sky Living’s supernatural drama Bedlam and in True Love, a five-part semi-improvised television series produced by Working Title for BBC One. In 2013, she starred in BBC One crime drama Shetland and guest starred on BBC’s Death in Paradise. In July 2016, Chan provided the voice for the character of Dewdrop in BBC’s animated miniseries Watership Down.