Jadyn Wong is a Canadian actress, best known for playing mechanical prodigy Happy Quinn on the

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show ''

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''.

Early life and education

Jadyn Wong was born May 11, 1989 in Canada to immigrants from the then-

British Hong Kong Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the British Empire from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of occupation under the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War. The colonial period began with the Briti ...

. She completed her

Bachelor of Commerce A Bachelor of Commerce (abbreviated BComm or BCom; also, ''baccalaureates commercii'') is an undergraduate degree in business, usually awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, ...

at the University of British Columbia.Wong, Tony
"Scorpion's Jadyn Wong tickled to play Happy : Alberta actress talks about her role on hit CBS show and Happy's potential romance with Toby"
''

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'', January 29, 2015 She has a black belt in

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and is also a

classical pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

Career

Jadyn Wong made her professional acting debut in the miniseries

Broken Trail ''Broken Trail'' is a 2006 Western television miniseries directed by Walter Hill and starring Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church. Written by Alan Geoffrion, who also wrote the novel, the story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who tra ...

(2006) with

Robert Duvall Robert Selden Duvall (; born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker. His career spans more than seven decades and he is considered one of the greatest American actors of all time. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Gold ...

. Her first audition, she was handpicked for the role by Duvall after hundreds of actresses were auditioned across North America. She also appeared in ''

Space Buddies ''Space Buddies'' is a 2009 American science fiction comedy film. It is the third film in the ''Air Buddies'' franchise. It was released on February 3, 2009. Like ''Air Buddies'' and ''Snow Buddies'', it was released directly on DVD and became th ...

'' (2009) as a Chinese reporter; as April Jung in the short film ''The Letters'' (2010); as a Money Channel Interviewer in '' Cosmopolis'' (2012); as Diondra in '' Debug'' (2014); and as Molly in the TV movie ''Client Seduction'' (2014). In 2016, she played Altagracia in ''

You're Killing Me Susana ''You're Killing Me Susana'' ( es, Me estás matando, Susana) is a 2016 Mexican romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roberto Sneider. The film tells about the self-assured handsome Eligio, who is trying to get his wife back, who for some reason ...

''. From 2014 to 2018, Wong starred in the

television series ''

'' as Happy Quinn. In 2018, she joined the cast of ''

Needle in a Timestack ''Needle in a Timestack'' is a 2021 American romantic science fiction film written and directed by John Ridley, based on the short story of the same name by Robert Silverberg. The film stars Leslie Odom Jr., Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo, Orlando ...

'', a science fiction film written and directed by

John Ridley John Ridley IV (born 1965) is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for '' 12 Years a Slave'', for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the creator and showrunner of the a ...

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Jadyn Living people Actresses from Alberta Canadian actresses of Hong Kong descent 21st-century Canadian actresses Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses People from Medicine Hat Canadian expatriate actresses in the United States Year of birth missing (living people)