Gwendoline Yeo

Gwendoline See-Hian Yeo (; born 10 July 1977) is an actress based in the United States . Born in Singapore, she moved to California in 1988 and began acting in sitcoms such as Grounded for Life and The Random Years. Yeo is known for her roles as Dr. Kelly Lee on General Hospital, Xiao-Mei on Desperate Housewives, and Sun Fu in Broken Trail. She is also known for voicing different roles in voiceover projects.

Early life Born in Singapore, Yeo moved to California, United States when she was eleven, where she attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory before graduating with honors in 1994. Yeo graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997. She also completed a diploma in classical piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Yeo was crowned Miss Asian America in 1995 and was also named Miss Chinatown USA in 1998–99.

Career Film Yeo starred opposite Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church in the Emmy Award-winning Western Broken Trail as Sun Fu (also known as "Number Three"), a Chinese woman sold into prostitution in the 1800s. After a worldwide search, Duvall personally selected her to star opposite him in the role. Her performance in the film earned her critical acclaim and a NAMIC Vision Award nomination for Best Actress in 2007.

Yeo also starred in the Emmy Award-nominated Amazon original special American Girl: Ivy & Julie.

Other notable film roles include Dr. Samantha Yep in The Jane Austen Book Club with Emily Blunt and Hugh Dancy, June in Night Skies, and The Magic of Ordinary Days with Keri Russell.

Television Yeo is known for her recurring guest star role as Xiao-Mei, the Chinese maid of Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria) and Carlos Solis (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) in Desperate Housewives. The character's popularity in the series led to an offer for a series regular contract the next season.

Set to debut in the 2020–21 television season, Yeo was cast as a series regular on The CW's Kung Fu as Zhilan, a dangerous nemesis with criminal ties and a connection to the Shaolin monastery. Before the series aired, Yeo was replaced by Yvonne Chapman.

She also had a recurring role as the Oklahoma-born Sargent Richelle (opposite Felicity Huffman) in the critically acclaimed series American Crime, played Kelly Lee on General Hospital, and has also guested on other popular shows such as NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, Castle, The Mentalist, and Chuck.

Voice acting Yeo is a prominent voice artist in several animated series, films, video games, and commercials, and has multiple action figures based on her characters. She started her career in voice-over in 2003 with guest role on What's New, Scooby-Doo?. More recently, she voiced Lady Shiva in the 2019 animated series Young Justice, and Tsiao Jung in the 2019 Emmy Award-winning series Love, Death & Robots.

Her character Shinigami, from Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was officially launched during San Diego Comic-Con to a huge crowd of fans. In 2020, she voiced another iconic role from the TMNT universe, Karai, in Nickelodeon's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

She has voiced several other popular animated characters including Nala Se, Jedi Kalifa, and Cato Parassiti in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Domino and Master Mold in Wolverine and the X-Men, Mariko Yashida in Marvel Anime: Wolverine, Dr. Yui Sasaki in Marvel Anime: X-Men, Li Mei in The Invincible Iron Man, Lola Chang in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Gramma on Stitch!, Mercy Graves in The Batman, Kitsune in Hellboy: Sword of Storms, and Li-en in Zatch Bell!. She has also guest starred in Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible, Curious George, Yasuke, Ben 10: Omniverse, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underground.

In video games, Yeo is best known as Paine in Final Fantasy X-2 and Kingdom Hearts II. She was also the female lead in SOCOM 4 U.S. Navy SEALs as the character Forty-Five. Other notable video game credits include Lady Deathstrike in X-Men: Next Dimension, Yuma in Far Cry 4, and Four-Eyes in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

Other projects Yeo's love of music led her to specialize in playing the Chinese long zither, also known as the guzheng, which culminated into a one-woman radio show on NPR-KCRW about her immigrant and ugly duckling story. It also included the debut of her first two zither/vocal tracks "Kiss My Grits" and "Lovers."

Her radio show evolved into a theater piece which Yeo wrote, scored, and starred in called Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open, which received rave reviews during its run at the El Centro Theatre.

Yeo also designed her own limited-edition clothing line, which quickly sold out, and donated the proceeds to Kentucky's Christian Appalachian Project.

Filmography Live-action Film Year Title Role Notes 2004 A Day Without a Mexican Newscaster 2007 Night Skies June Dead Tone Detective Anne Hastings The Jane Austen Book Club Dr. Samantha Yep 2008Vacancy 2: The First CutBride 2012 Freeloaders Yue Jie

Television Year Title Role Notes 2001 Grounded for Life Linda 2 episodes 2002 The Random Years Happy Dragon Hot Waitress Episode: "Don't Make Me Have Sex in the Hamptons" 2003 Watching Ellie Andrea Barlow Episode: "Shrink" 2004 The O.C. Sara / Amy Episode: "The Strip" Judging Amy Lisa Bart Episode: "Consent" 2005 The Magic of Ordinary Days Rose Television film NYPD Blue Ai Watanabe Episode: "Moving Day" JAG Lt. Chang Episode: "Unknown Soldier" 24 Melissa Rabb 2 episodes 2006 General Hospital Dr. Kelly Lee 7 episodes Desperate Housewives Xiao-Mei 9 episodes Broken Trail Sun Fu Television film Hannah Montana Bree Samuels Episode: "New Kid in School" 2007 Standoff Ratana Sadka Episode: "No Strings" The 1/2 Hour News Hour Yujira Shinato 1 episode Chuck Mei-Ling Cho Episode: "Chuck Versus the Sizzling Shrimp" 2008 Eli Stone Joanna Kim Episode: "Unwritten" The Mentalist Alexandra Episode: "Red-Handed" 2009 The Beast Jennifer Ling Episode: "The Walk In" 2011 Gigantic Val 2 episodes 2015 Castle Elise Kim Episode: "The Wrong Stuff" American Crime Richelle 4 episodes 2016 Grey's Anatomy Michelle Carpio Episode: "Mama Tried" 2017 Switched at Birth Ling Episode: "The Call" Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders Lin Huang Episode: "Cinderella and the Dragon" Wisdom of the Crowd Deputy Chief Elaine Wu Episode: "User Bias" 2018 NCIS NCIS Special Agent Joanna Wright Episode: "Death From Above" 2023 Truth Be Told Social Worker 3 episodes

Voice acting Film Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Invincible Iron Man Li Mei Direct-to-video 2011 Dead Space: Aftermath Isabel Cho Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Blu Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur Ms. Deitch 2012 Back to the Sea Waitress Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II Luvia Bloodmire Shellshock: Nam '67 Hooker #1 2005 God of War Lysandra, Civilians Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer Maiden Rock, Villager Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles Li-en Kingdom of Paradise Li Yin, Suzuka Disciple Neopets: The Darkest Faerie Spite Saints Row Santo Ileso Pedestrians Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Tse "Luna" Mingzhu 2023 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate Karai Diablo IV Additional voices 2024 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Additional voices 2026 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City Karai