Gwendoline Yeo

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Biography

Gwendoline Yeo moved to the U.S. from Singapore to San Francico as a teenager and then graduated from UCLA. She won national titles of Miss Asian America and Miss Chinatown USA. She then went on to an acting career. Her breakthrough role was her arc on Desperate Housewives in Seasons 2 and 3 cracking people up playing Eva Longoria's naughty maid, XiaoMei. She's also recurred on 24, General Hospital& Grounded for Life and guest starred on NYPD Blue, JAG and The OC. Her Feature credits include AMC's hit western "Broken Trail" starring alongside Robert Duvall, Hallmark's The Magic of Ordinary Days and Robin Swicord's "the Jane Austen Book Club." She lends her voice on several cartoon series including Cartoon Network's Zatch Belle, Disney's Safety Patrol, Nickalodean's Superscout and the new X-Men. Video gamers best know her as "Paine" from Final Fantasy x-2.

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·sound_department·miscellaneous
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 10 July 1977
  • Place of birth
  • Singapore
  • Education
  • University of California· Los Angeles·San Francisco Conservatory of Music
  • Knows language
  • English language
  • Member of
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Speaks various dialects of Chinese, some French and does karate.

Niece of Singapores current Minister for Foreign Affairs

Graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Earned a diploma in Classical Piano. Plays the Chinese Long Zither ("gu-zheng").

Graduated from UCLA with a B.A. Degree prior to age 20.

Graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA, and is a recipient of Phi Beta Kappa honors.

Graduated from high school at age 16.

She came to the United States from Singapore at age 12.

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