
Jadyn Wong is a Canadian actress, best known for playing mechanical prodigy Happy Quinn on the
CBS show ''
Scorpion
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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. 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, M ...
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"
''Toronto Star
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'', January 29, 2015 She has a
black belt in
karate
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and is also a
classical pianist
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.
Career
Jadyn Wong made her professional acting debut in the miniseries
Broken Trail
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(2006) with
Robert Duvall
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.
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
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'' (2009) as a Chinese reporter; as April Jung in the short film ''The Letters'' (2010); as a Money Channel Interviewer in ''
Cosmopolis
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Arts Film
* ''Cosmopolis'' (film), a 2012 film by David Cronenberg based on the DeLillo novel
* Cosmopolis, a fictional city in the ''Speed Racer'' film adaptation
Literature
* ''Cosmopolis'' (novel), a 2003 nove ...
'' (2012); as Diondra in ''
Debug
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Debugging tactics can involve int ...
'' (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
CBS television series ''
Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs, and are easily recognized by a pair of grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back and always endi ...
'' 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 Bl ...
'', 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 an ...
.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
*
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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)