Élodie Yung

Yung was born in Paris, on 22 February 1981. Her father is Cambodian and her mother is French.[1] She grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis.[2] Her father enrolled her in karate classes at age 9,[3] and she eventually became a black belt in her late teens.[4] Yung earned a law degree at the University of Paris with the intention of becoming a judge.[5][6] However, at the age of 29, she instead pursued acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[6]

Yung's first roles were on TV after she started receiving acting role proposals when she was 20 years old.[7] Following her 2004 film debut as female lead Tsu in Les fils du vent, she played the gang lord Tao in District 13: Ultimatum.[6] Yung returned to TV for the first three seasons of the successful police series Les Bleus with Clémentine Célarié.[8] Yung appeared in the 2011 film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Miriam Wu, a romantic interest of Lisbeth Salander.[6] In 2013, she appeared on the silver screen as the ninja Jinx in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.[9] She starred in the film Gods of Egypt (2016), as the goddess Hathor.[10] In 2016 she starred as Amelia Roussel in the action comedy The Hitman's Bodyguard alongside Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. She plays Elektra in season 2 of Daredevil in 2016, and reprised the role in 2017 in The Defenders.[11] In 2020, Yung played the role of Catherine in the Disney+ film Secret Society of Second-Born Royals. In 2022, Yung began starring as Thony in the Fox crime drama series The Cleaning Lady.[12][13]

In June 2018, Yung announced she was pregnant with her first child.[14] Her daughter with actor Jonathan Howard was born early August 2018.[15][16]

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