Chloe Bennet

Chloé Wang (; born April 18, 1992), She is the daughter of Bennet Wang, a private wealth banker Bennet's mother is Anglo-American and her father is Chinese. She has six brothers: three biological, two foster and one adopted; two are of African American ancestry and one is of Mexican and Filipino descent.

Career 2007–2011: Music debut and acting beginnings In 2007, at age 15, Bennet moved to China to pursue a singing career; while in China, Bennet lived with her paternal grandmother and studied Mandarin. Back in the US, she released two singles "Uh Oh" and "Every Day in Between" in 2011, under her birth name Chloe Wang. thumb In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles, California. While pursuing an acting career in Hollywood, she changed her name to "Chloe Bennet," after having trouble booking gigs with her last name. According to Bennet, using her father's first name rather than his last name avoids difficulties being cast as an ethnic Asian American while respecting her father. which premiered on September 24, 2013. Bennet portrayed a hacker known as Skye, who was revealed to be Daisy Johnson / Quake in the second season. Bennet was awarded the "Visionary Award" by East West Players, the longest-running professional theater of color in the United States, on April 21, 2017, at their annual gala. She dedicated her award "to all the little girls who want to be a superhero; I'm just a half Chinese girl from the southside of Chicago."

In 2019, Bennet was cast in the lead role as Yi in the animated film Abominable. She appeared in the 2020 film Valley Girl, a jukebox musical remake of the 1983 film of the same name, as Karen, the "Queen Bee". The film was originally scheduled for release in June 2018, but was postponed due to controversy around one of its cast members, Logan Paul.

In March 2021, she was cast as Blossom Utonium in the upcoming CW live-action pilot Powerpuff, alongside Dove Cameron as Bubbles and Yana Perrault as Buttercup. However, after a decision to reshoot the pilot episode and subsequent scheduling conflicts with another project, Bennet left the project in August 2021. In 2023, she starred as the main actress in Mike Rohl's Married By Mistake as Riley Smith, a recent graduate of Stanford University who drunkenly marries her friend Nate Fisher. Later that year, Bennet joined the cast for the second season of Invincible.

Advocacy Asian-American advocacy

Bennet has described the American film and television industry as racist against Asian-Americans and other people of Asian descent. She recalled that early in her career, her surname played a significant role in casting decisions, noting that after changing her last name from Wang to Bennet, she landed a role on her very first audition, describing it as "a pretty clear little snippet of how Hollywood works".

In 2017, Bennet praised English actor Ed Skrein's choice to step down from his role as Ben Daimio for the film Hellboy following backlash due to the character being Japanese-American.

While Simu Liu's role as Shang-Chi is recognised as the first theatrical Asian superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise, Bennet's role as Daisy Johnson / Quake in the television show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is widely considered to be the first official Asian superhero in the MCU. In 2020, Bennet spoke out against Asian culture being a trend, noting that Marvel casting her as Quake "ultimately ended up writing to fit [her] ethnicity and [her] diversity, and made that a part of the character and it only added richness to the character". Her Campus writer Abbie Jordan argued that Marvel erased Bennet's impact as the first Asian superhero, noting that while "Johnson isn't the only incredible character, her erasure in pop culture is most disappointing". In 2022, Bennet posted selfies with Liu on social media, with the caption jokingly saying, "oh look it's marvels first asian superhero..and @SimuLiu is also in the pic too".

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2014 Nostradamus Lane Fisher Short film 2015 Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast Chase Voice role 2019 Abominable Yi Voice role 2020 Valley Girl Karen 5 Years Apart Emma 2023 Married by Mistake Riley Rally Road Racers Shelby Voice role Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Daisy Johnson / Quake Photograph 2025 A Very Jonas Christmas Movie Lucy Minnie Post-production

Television

Discography Singles Year Title 2011 "Uh Oh" (English Version) "Lose Control (Take a Sip)" Chase Jordan "Uh-Oh" (English Version) "Uh-Oh" (Chinese Version) "Every Day In Between"

Awards + Award Year Category Work Result Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards 2020 Best Animated Female Abominable Hawaii Film Critics Society Awards 2020 Best Vocal Capture Abominable Movieguide Awards 2019 Most Inspiring Performance in Television Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2015 Favorite TV Actress Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2016 Favorite Female TV Star – Family Show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Teen Choice Awards 2018 TV Actress: Action Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2019 Summer TV Star: Female Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.