Gemma Chan Quotes

Gemma Chan — English Actress born on November 29, 1982,

Gemma Chan is a British film, television and theatre actress and former fashion model. She portrays Charlotte in season four of the Showtime and ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl; Ruth in Channel 4's award-winning series Fresh Meat; Mia Bennett in the BBC's Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars" and Soo Lin in Sherlock, She also appeared in the BAFTA-nominated film Exam and Paramount Pictures' action-thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. She stars in Humans, an AMC/Channel 4 eight-part science-fiction drama, which premiered in June 2015... (wikipedia)

As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.