Christina Chong

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Christina Chong
Birth name:	Christina Chong
Date of birth:	18 September 1983
Place of birth:	Enfield, London, England, UK
Roles:	Actress
Character(s):	La'an Noonien-Singh; Thalia

Christina Chong (born 18 September 1983; age 41) is an English actress who plays La'an Noonien-Singh in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

She was born in Enfield, Greater London, to a Chinese father and an English mother. After the separation of her parents, she moved to the small town of Longridge with her mother and five siblings. She started dancing at the age of four, and at 14, she gained a place at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, graduating five years later. After an injury cut her career short in musical theatre, she moved to New York City to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Returning to England, she appeared in supporting roles in Johnny English Reborn (2011) and the drama W.E. both in 2011. On television, she appeared in a 2011 episode of Doctor Who, two episodes of the crime series Whitechapel, and "The Waldo Moment", a second season episode of the anthology series Black Mirror, alongside David Ajala.

In 2011-12, she co-starred in Monroe. In 2014, she played a recurring role in the miniseries 24: Live Another Day and co-starred in another action miniseries, Halo: Nightfall. Still in 2014, she played a recurring role in four episodes of Line of Duty, which she reprised in two additional episodes in 2021.

In 2015, she appeared in a recurring role in Dominion, followed by a co-starring role in Of Kings and Prophets in 2016. In 2018, she played a recurring role in Bulletproof, starring Noel Clarke, and in 2019, she co-starred in Heirs of the Night.

Her other film credits include Christmas Eve (2015, with Patrick Stewart and Gary Cole), 2020's Transference: A Love Story, and 2021's Tom & Jerry. She was cast in a minor role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, directed and produced by J.J. Abrams and featuring Simon Pegg) and Michael Giacchino in the cast. However, her part ended up as a deleted scene, depriving her of the chance to become the third actor to complete appearances "science-fiction trifecta" (Doctor Who, Star Wars and Star Trek) in live-action roles – the other two being Pegg and Deep Roy.

Star Trek appearances

La'an Noonien-Singh
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Recurring character

Thalia
SNW: "The Elysian Kingdom"

Appearances as La'an Noonien-Singh

• SNW:
  • "Strange New Worlds"
  • "Children of the Comet"
  • "Ghosts of Illyria"
  • "Memento Mori"
  • "Spock Amok"
  • "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"
  • "The Serene Squall"
  • "The Elysian Kingdom"
  • "All Those Who Wander"
  • "A Quality of Mercy"
  • "The Broken Circle"
  • "Ad Astra per Aspera"
  • "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"
  • "Among the Lotus Eaters"
  • "Charades"
  • "Lost in Translation"
  • "Those Old Scientists"
  • "Under the Cloak of War"
  • "Subspace Rhapsody"
  • "Hegemony"

External links

• Christina Chong at the Internet Movie Database
• Christina Chong at Wikipedia