Gwendoline Yeo

Gwendoline See-Hian Yeo (Chinese: 杨时贤; pinyin: Yáng Shíxián; born 10 July 1977)[1] is an American actress, musician and writer best known for her role as Xiao-Mei in Desperate Housewives, Sun Fu in the film Broken Trail (for which she was nominated for a Best Actress NAMIC Vision Award[2]) and as the voice of Shinigami in Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yeo was cast as Zhilan, a series regular on The CW’s Kung Fu, set to debut in the 2020–21 television season.

Yeo starred opposite Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church in the Emmy Award-winning Western Broken Trail as Sun Fu (also known as “Number Three”), a Chinese woman sold into prostitution in the 1800s. After a worldwide search, Duvall personally selected her to star opposite him in the role.[5] Her performance in the film earned her critical acclaim and a NAMIC Vision Award nomination for Best Actress in 2007.[2]

In the independent film Heathens and Thieves, Yeo played Kun Hua, a role which garnered her Best Actress Awards at both the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival and the Iowa Film Festival.