Sumalee Montano

Sumalee Montano is an American actress. Originally, she worked as an investment bank analyst in New York City and Hong Kong before starting her acting career.

For TV and film, Montano has appeared on Close to Home, Days of Our Lives, Nashville, Scandal, The Young and the Restless, This Is Us, and Veep. As a voice actress, she has provided the voice of Pudding in Space Channel 5 and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, Arcee on Transformers: Prime, Cali in the Skylanders series, Katana on Beware the Batman, the President in Saints Row IV, the female Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition and Yuna in Ghost of Tsushima and Maria Santiago in The Loud House and The Casagrandes. She has also guest-starred as Nila on the web series Critical Role.

She resides and works in Los Angeles.

Early life Montano is of Filipino and Thai descent and grew up mostly in the United States, but also spent a few years in Bangkok, Thailand. During her high school career, she began acting as an extracurricular activity. Her great-uncle is Filipino actor and writer Severino Montano.

Education and acting career She graduated from Harvard University in 1993 and is a U.S. Fulbright scholar. After graduation, she worked as an investment banking analyst for Morgan Stanley for a few years. After realizing investment banking wasn't something she was passionate about, Montano quit and went backpacking through Africa before realizing she wanted to pursue acting professionally.

Montano has taken on a variety of different roles, both live-action and voice-over. She is talented in using many different accents, including Chinese, Filipino, British, Southern, Thai, Vietnamese, Eastern European and Japanese. Her first voice acting role was as Pudding in the 1999 music-rhythm game, Space Channel 5. Her first major acting role was playing the nurse Duvata Mahal for three seasons of the TV show ER. Following her portrayal as Sato, she had also appeared in the 2021 animated Disney series The Ghost and Molly McGee, voicing Sharon McGee, the titular character's mother, and Grandma Nin.

Filmography Voice acting Video games

Film + List of voice performances in direct-to-video, feature and television films Year Title Role Notes Source Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters the Wu sisters Short film PAW Patrol: The Movie Additional Voices (US) Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind Kindra The Casagrandes MovieMaria Santiago

Animation + List of voice performances in animation Year Title Role Notes Source –13 Transformers: Prime Arcee, Raf's Mother Main role 2023 The Legend of Vox Machina Highbearer Vord Episode: "The Trials of Vasselheim" 2024–2025 Jurassic World: Chaos Theory The Handler 8 episodes

Live-action Television + List of acting performances in television Year Title Role Notes Source –05 E.R. Duvata Mahal 10 episodes Strong Medicine Med Student #2 Episode: "Vaccinations" Judging Amy Helen Episode: "The New Normal" Medium Nurse #1 Episode: "Penny for Your Thoughts" The Comeback Producer Episode: "Valerie Stands Out on the Red Carpet" –06 The West Wing Vinick Reporter #1 2 episodes –07 Close to Home Melinda Mallari 6 episodes Bones Alexandra Combs Episode: "The Graft in the Girl" Commander in Chief Air Force One Reporter Episode: "Happy Birthday, Madam President" Shogunate Lady Sakato Adachi Television film Cane Christine Kim 2 episodes Lincoln Heights Nurse Tan Episode: "The Vision" Shark Arlene Pierce Episode: "Every Breath You Take" –08 The Young and the Restless Dr. Maya Bagano 5 episodes Boston Legal Dr. Linda Corbin Episode: "Kill, Baby, Kill!" Big Love Dr. Gowan Episode: "Empire" Nip/Tuck Dr. Wu Episode: "Briggitte Reinholt" Glory Daze Kim-Ly Franklin Episode: "Papa Don't Pre-Game" Harry's Law Dr. Erica Christie Episode: "In the Ghetto" The Finder Lee Scott Episode: "Little Green Men" NCIS: Los Angeles Yen Tran Episode: "The Dragon and the Fairy" Parenthood Malea Episode: "What to My Wondering Eyes" Monday Mornings Lynne Iverson Episode: "Wheels Within Wheels" Touch Nurse Liz 2 episodes –17 Days of Our Lives Dr. Yuen, Dr. Ong 3 episodes The Mentalist Susan Nguyen Episode: "Green Light" NCIS: New Orleans Melanie Pratt Episode: "Touched by the Sun" –16 Nashville Dr. Kitley 4 episodes –17 Veep Joyce Cafferty 3 episodes Rizzoli & Isles Judge Huang Episode: "65 Hours" Grey's Anatomy Lena McCallister Episode: "Catastrophe and the Cure" Shameless Turks Episode: "Hiraeth" NCIS Nicole Taggart Episode: "Rendezvous" Kevin (Probably) Saves the World Tracy Haslett Episode: "Rocky Road" Dynasty Deirde Episode: "Company Slut" 2018 Scandal Maria Campo 4 episodes Critical Role Nila 2 episodes Animal Kingdom Melanie Southards 2 episodes This Is Us Dr. Gail Jasper 3 episodes 2018–19 S.W.A.T. Gwen 3 episodes Blue Bloods Inspector Jane Kimura Episode: "Trust" The Gifted Dr. Taylor Episode: "iMprint" 2019 How to Get Away with Murder FBI Agent Nancy Bayer 2 episodes Magnum P.I. Judge Majorie Kamaka Episode: "Murder Is Never Quiet" SEAL Team Agent Susan Craver Episode: "The Ones You Can't See" The Resident Trish Tintoc Episode: "Out for Blood" Star Trek: Picard Dahj and Soji's Mother Episode: "Remembrance" Hawaii Five-0 Yang Episode: "He kauwa ke kanaka na ke aloha" 2021 The Lost Symbol Inoue Sato Main role 2024 Snowpiercer Kari Chang Recurring2025The ResidenceDanna HammondRecurring2026Happy's PlaceMoney Fairyseason 2 episode 16 "AI-AI-No"

Film + List of acting performances in films Year Title Role Notes Source Teknolust Nelia Uncredited Cherish Officer Montano Minority Report Talking Billboard Uncredited Water Under the Bridge Sara Danika News Reporter Hancock News Anchor Uncredited Eating Out: All You Can Eat Pam Losing Control Breanna Lee