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After Ellen: Interview with Grace Park July 13, 2009 Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park likes to keep things interesting. She got her start playing a teenage lesbian Christian in Canada, jumped into the international spotlight as a humanoid Cylon on Battlestar Galactica; and currently stars in A&E’s The Cleaner, a drama now in its second season about an unconventional team that gets addicts to hit rock bottom by any means necessary. AfterEllen.com talked to Park about some of the extreme sports she enjoys, her very different acting roles, whether her race has been a barrier in her career, and working with The L Word's Mia Kirshner for this week's episode of The Cleaner.
Examiner: Interview with Grace Park of The Cleaner on AE July 13, 2009 Grace Park co-starred on the critically acclaimed SCI FI series “Battlestar Galactica,” playing not one but two leading roles. Her performance in the season one cliffhanger garnered her a place in TV Guide’s “100 Most Memorable Moments in TV History.” Grace Park recently took the time for a television interview to talk with me about the series and her character.
IGN: Grace Park Talks The Cleaner July 6, 2009
I recently spoke to Park about her work on The Cleaner, in a conversation that also turned to Park's upcoming Maxim pictorial (alongside Battlestar's Tricia Helfer), a vocal guest appearance she'll be doing on American Dad and an amusing, dialogue-free cameo she made on a Battlestar-reference heavy episode of CSI this past spring.
Boston Herald: State of Grace in Flux on The Cleaner June 23, 2009 Viewers will be seeing less of Akani, played by Grace Park, when “The Cleaner” returns for a second season tonight at 10 on A & E. “Second season is a bit interesting because its not how I thought it was going to be,” Park said in a recent phone interview from Los Angeles.
Sci Fi Wire: Battlestar's Grace Park reveals her part in The Plan May 13, 2009
Grace Park, who played Boomer and Athena on SCI FI's Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI that the upcoming prequel film The Plan combines familiar footage from earlier seasons with all-new material.
IGN: Battlestar's Grace Park Reflects on The End March 25, 2009
With the final episodes behind us, I had the opportunity to speak to Park to discuss her time on Galactica. During a break from filming the second season of her A&E series The Cleaner, Park talked about the hectic final days of filming Galactica, her thoughts on the ultimate fates of Boomer and Athena, and hinted at what's to come in the upcoming TV movie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, which takes a look back at earlier events from the series, from the point of view of the Cylons.
Japan Today: Grace Park Hones Her Skills on Battlestar Galactica February 19, 2009 | View Photoshoot
“The show is visually appealing, the music is fantastic. And the storylines have a lot of surprises. Characters are both strong and flawed. Even the heroes have their doubts and ugly sides.”
Park, a 34-year-old Canadian actress of Korean descent, plays the humanoid Cylon Sharon “Boomer” Valerii, initially planted as a sleeper agent in the human fleet. During her four years on the show, she has developed a fan base and says she gets fan mail from Germany, France, Australia and now Japan.
Otago Daily News: Battlestar Galactica in Fight to The Finish February 17, 2009
Battlestar Galactica stars Katee Sackhoff (Kara "Starbuck" Thrace) and Grace Park (Sharon "Boomer" Valerii/Sharon "Athena" Agathon) on the end to the SciFi channels most critically acclaimed show.
Galactica.TV: Grace Park Interview January 30, 2009
Justin Berger caught up with Grace Park, better known as Cylon #8, Sharon "Athena" Agathon, Sharon "Boomer" Valerii on the Battlestar Galactica 2003 series to do an exclusive interview. They talked about the final leg of the Battlestar Galactica series, ending it all, the upcoming Battlestar Galactica movie The Plan, her multiple parts on the show and what she's up to n
Brantford Expositor: Her Name is Grace Park, and Her Career Is In Overdrive January 16, 2009
When it comes to taking on multiple roles, Grace Park is something of an expert. The L. A.-born, Vancouver-raised actress has spent the past five years playing Lieut. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii on "Battlestar Galactica," which is going into its final 10 episodes Friday, Jan. 16, on Space: The Imagination Station.
Giant: Talking With... Grace Park January 15, 2009 | View Photoshoot
For five years, Grace Park has juggled not one, but several roles on the beloved sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica. And even though the show is heading into its final 10 episodes starting tomorrow night, her workload isn’t getting lighter. On deck, the 34-year-old actress has a Galactica flick that will arrive on SciFi and DVD later this year, a recurring role on the Canadian immigration series The Border and just landed a role in the big-screen comedy Punctured opposite Eugene Levy.
Battlestar Galactica's Grace Park tells all about bidding the good ship Galactica farewell, which keepsakes she brought home and where she wants her to career to go next.
December, 2008 | View Photoshoot
So, a Homeland Security agent, a sassy heiress, two spaceship pilots and several hundred gorgeous killer robots walk in to a small cocktail reception.....
National Post: Even Grace Park Has To Attend These Awkward Social Functions November 15, 2008
What happens when you attend a cocktail party with all of your bosses on a live television set? Grace Park, among the much ballyhooed recent cast additions to CBC's The Border, says that the drinks go down much too fast.
The Vancouver Province: Battlestar beauty on The Border November 9, 2008 | View Photoshoot Multiple Parks are crowding the small screen. She debuts this week (9 p.m. tomorrow) in the second season of the CBC cop drama The Border, playing a tough-cookie U.S. federal agent, and she just got word that her Los Angeles-filmed series The Cleaner, in which she co-stars alongside Benjamin Bratt as part of a team of hard-case drug counsellors, will be back for a second season. As well, the fourth and final season of the brainy sci-fi hit series Battlestar Galactica was followed by a TV movie that reunited the cast this past September in Vancouver.
November 8, 2008 Grace Park is thrilled to be back on Earth ... and not the other way around. "It is nice for a change to not be covered with dirt," laughs the stunning Vancouver actor, who spent much of the last five years on Battlestar Galactica knee-deep in more than her share of mud, blood and crud. Make that way more than her share, having been revealed early on as a covert alien android infiltrator – indeed, several covert alien android infiltrators, mass-produced with hidden agendas and often not even aware of themselves ...
24 Hours Vancouver: Saying Grace November 7, 2008
Few actors will admit picking their profession strictly for fame and fortune. Ask why they do it and they'll no doubt mention passion or art - they might even scoff at the question and say acting chose them. Not Grace Park. She became an actor ... for the catering.
Metro Vancouver: Star Likes Limited Recognition November 6, 2008 | View Photoshoot
Despite playing two leading roles in one of television’s hottest sci-fi shows, Vancouver actress Grace Park still basks in the (relative) anonymity of her hometown.
Vancouver Sun: Vancouver's Grace Park racks up many firsts with her latest role November 6, 2008 Vancouver-based actor Grace Park politely bites back frustration. A reporter is once again asking her about ethnicity and its role in her career.
September, 2008
Battlestar's Cylon talks rubberized suits, under the sheets action and not giving the audience what it wants....
LA Times: Sunday Conversation: 'Battlestar Galactica's' Grace Park July 20, 2008 | View Photoshoot
GRACE PARK appears in "The Cleaner," starring Benjamin Bratt, a new series that airs on A&E on Tuesdays. She is fresh off "Battlestar Galactica," in which she played Sharon Valerii/Sharon Agathon/Cylon No. 8. She lives in Vancouver, Canada.
New York Post- PopWrap: Grace Park: "This Can't Be The Way It Ends!" July 15, 2008
"There's daylight! I'm on Earth! It's outside! It's present day!" Those are just a few of the ways Grace Park says she can tell the difference between working on "Battlestar Galactica" and her new A&E series, "The Cleaner," premiering tonight at 10 p.m.
June/July, 2008 | View Photoshoot
After five years of cult stardom, Battlestar Galactica’s sexiest spacewoman is heading into the great unknown: fame.
2008 | View Photoshoot
The Sexy Cylon shares stories with FHM about stealing props, traveling, on-set hijinks, and, naturally, sex with robots.
Canoe- Jam Showbiz: 'Galactica' set for final showdown April 3, 2008 | View Photoshoot
Like all good things -- life, love, that particularly good chorizo empanada you had for lunch -- even Battlestar Galactica must come to an end.
CTV Toronto: Fuzzy on frakkin' BSG storylines? So is the cast! April 2, 2008 | View Photoshoot
As the dark, critically acclaimed show heads into its fourth and final season this Friday on Space in Canada and SciFi Channel in the U.S., Vancouver-raised actress Grace Park, who plays comely pilot Sharon Valerii (a.k.a. Boomer and Athena), even has trouble recalling everything that's happened on the series so far. |
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Macleans: Battlestar Galactica—Secrets Revealed! March 27, 2008
Wondering who the last Cylon is? Or whether the fleet will find Earth? BSG cast members dish on the show's final season.
2008
Grace Park plays Boomer/Sharon/Athena/Model Number 8 on Battlestar Galactica. The Canadian actress' first major role was on the drama Edgemont; from there, she moved on to butt-kicking as a human cyborg. We sat down to talk about the upcoming final season of the hit sci-fi show, and what lies in store for Sharon.
2008
An exotic beauty who is a bit of a wild card with a hardened street edge that makes her just one of the boys. That’s Akani Cuestra, Grace Park’s new character on the A&E original series The Cleaner.
Where Vancouver: Amazing Grace 2008 | View Photoshoot
Grace Park is exactly what you’d expect from a model-turned-actress who grew up in Vancouver and continues to live here: gorgeous but not pretentious, with an easygoing West Coast vibe. She suggested a photo shoot on Granville Island and chatted over coffee about her life, filming the final season of Battlestar Galactica and her favourite local spots.
NY Post: Battlestar's Grace Park: From Warrior to Cylon to Asian Excellence Award Nominee May, 2007
As befits one of Battlestar Galactica's hotshot pilots, Grace Park (aka Lt. Sharon "Athena" Valerii) got to fly solo as she announced the nominees for the AZN Asian Excellence Awards, even though she's co-hosting the May 28 broadcast on AZN with Lost actor Daniel Dae Kim. And as she revealed the nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the TV category, Park encountered a familiar name on the list: Grace Park.
XBox: Grace Park of Battlestar Galactica and Command & Conquer May, 2007
Legions of gamers know Grace Park as Sharon Valerii, or Number Eight, from the Sci-Fi Channel"s Battlestar Galactica TV series. Park jumped from one science fiction universe to another in the new Electronic Arts videogame, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™. In this real-time strategy game, Park plays Lt. Sandra Telfair in the game's full-motion video sequences that bridge the in-game single player action.
2007
Light years ahead of other space series, 'Battlestar Galactica' breathes new life into the tired sci-fi genre, with sharp writing, hot-button themes and great action.
13 Minutes Magazine: Grace Park- Out of This World 2007 | View Photoshoot
In life- as in Hollywood- grace under fire is the crucial element that leads to success. In the case of Grace Park, the exotic beauty and talented actress, this trait has taken her far.
March 23, 2007
Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharon "Boomer" Valerii is dead.
And yet she just had a baby. Oh, and she's a robot. No, this isn't your
typical soap opera. This is a modern-day space opera.
March 22, 2007
I managed to get six minutes with the very gorgeous in real life Park near one
of the two bars at the place. I don’t know how she was doing, but I was a couple
of beers and cocktails into my night. However many she did or didn’t have, she
was funny and quick on her feet, and she told me her opinion about the impending
end of Battlestar that may be in line with how some fans of the show feel…
March 16, 2007
BuddyTV was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to sit down with Grace to discuss Battlestar Galactica's past, present, and future as well as the intricacies of playing a character with the most extreme multiple personality disorder on TV today.
2007
Battlestar Galactica's Grace Park on the challenge of dual roles, working on a cult hit, and upcoming film West 32nd.
Newsday: Fast Chat with Grace Park October 1, 2006 | View Photoshoot
Grace Park plays what may be the most fascinating role on perhaps TV's most provocative series, "Battlestar Galactica." Actually, she's played two of that Sci Fi drama's most complex characters.
SDAFF: Grace Park Is More Human Than Human October, 2006
"I worked my butt off taking classes and when the role of "Dualla" on Battlestar came up, I did my work on it. After the audition I was told to come back for "Starbuck." I did. Then after going to L.A. for the screentest alongside Katee Sackhoff, I was offered the role of "Sharon Valerii."
September, 2006 | View Photoshoot
Grace Park exudes an all-American girl aura — she’s makeup-free, dressed California casual, with a warm, easygoing smile. Yet few people realize that the actor on the highly acclaimed, highly rated SCI FI Channel series Battlestar Galactica, now in its third season, is actually Canadian. And while some people may wonder why that matters (Canadian, American, isn’t it all the same?), what we don’t realize is that sometimes what we take for granted as Asian Americans is not necessarily the case for Asian Canadians.
May 9, 2006
Yesterday I put up my one on one interview with Grace Park , which took place at the recent NBC Universal Summer Press Day. Here, we'll give you a look at the Q&A Park and her Battlestar Galactica costar Tricia Helfer did together at the same event.
May 8, 2006
One on one with the actress
about Galactica season 3.
March 25, 2006
There's a lot to be said for playing an object. It makes your character really
hard to kill off. Take Grace Park's character, for instance.
March 10, 2006
Recently I conducted an exclusive interview with Grace Park for IGN FilmForce, after she had just taken part in the event honoring Battlestar Galactica at the Museum of Television and Radio's William S. Paley Television Festival in front of a crowd of adoring fans. We discussed what it's like playing multiple characters; the role of gender in Galactica and the tremendous critical response the show has received, among other topics.
March 9, 2006
In this entry in IGN's look at the 2006 William S. Paley Television Festival held by the Museum of Television and Radio, we take a look at their night devoted to The Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica.
January 24, 2006
Grace Park won the role of Sharon Valerii after trying out for the role of Galactica bridge crewmember Dualla and being passed over for Starbuck. The original Boomer had been played by Herbert Jefferson Jr., but Grace never watched the show prior to winning a part in the new mini-series, so she bypassed any intimidation some actors might feel at following in another's footsteps.
Audrey: The Double Life of Grace July, 2005 | View Photoshoot
Grace Park finds out a lot about herself, playing multiple characters on SCI FI Channel’s hit series Battlestar Galactica.
Space: Grace Park on Boomer & BSG June 27, 2005
As Vancouver hosts the production of Battlestar Galactica season two, Canada's Space channel went on-set to chat with some of the cast.
March, 2005 | View Photoshoot
Battlestar Galactica's Grace Park is the hottest celestial body this side of the Crab Nebula.
January 28, 2005
If there is one thing that is markedly different about the Ron Moore remake of Battlestar Galactica it would be the use of humanoid Cylons. Granted a humanoid looking Cylon was used in the defunct Battlestar Galactica 1980 series, but they were portrayed more as clumsy approximations of human beings, and to be honest they never really did convince anyone. The humanoid Cylons in the new series however a far more dangerous breed and have already successfully made the remains of the colonial's paranoid as hell. One Cylon however that they do not know about as of yet is Sharon Valerii Boomer as portrayed by Grace Park and in a recent interview with David Bassom for issue 126 of Dreamwatch the actress revealed some of the complexities of her role in the series.
January 3, 2005
Despite the controversial recasting of key roles as women, last season’s ‘Battlestar Galactica’ mini-series did sufficiently big numbers for the SciFi Channel that they gave the go-ahead for a weekly series. Grace Park was cast in one the gender-shifted roles – a rather key role as it turned out. With the series set to premiere on Sci-Fi on January 14th, interviewing the charming Ms Park seemed the logical thing to do…
Ktown213: Interview with Grace Park 2005 | View Photoshoot
With the show's success and her eight page spread on the latest issue of Maxim magazine, the big media buzz surrounding Grace Park is quite apparent everywhere. Ktown213 and staff were at the press conference, and we seized the opportunity to find out more for our viewers.
2005
According to About.com's Julia Houston, Grace Park sounds in a good mood over
the phone. After all, she’s recently married, and (inspired by her sister’s
wedding in Hawaii) had the ceremony in Mexico to keep things tropical and
relaxed. She relates to Julia that many of her fellow Battlestar Galactica
castmates were there to wish her well.
2004
Actress Grace Park is doing double duty on her new TV series, Battlestar Galactica - but she isn't getting double pay.
December 2003
Tall, tan, young and lovely, a girl from Vancouver goes walking. As she saunters around Vancouver's famed seawall on a gorgeous Monday afternoon, twentysomething model-turned-actress Grace Park provokes shy smiles from the meek and dig-me grins from the freaks, but no one in either group actually says hello. It's that old chestnut about the girl whose stunning looks attract, then makes stupid, the vast majority of boys she doesn't actually meet.
2003
An interview on the show, being the rookie, and representing humanity.
2002
Witty and ebullient, Grace Park is miles away from the uptight brainiac she plays on television. Meet Edgemont’s sexiest nerd. |