Jadyn Wong

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Jadyn Wong
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Wong at the 33rd LAAPFF in 2017
Born
Jadyn Wong

May 11,1985
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present

Jadyn Wong is a Canadian actress, best known for playing mechanical prodigy Happy Quinn on the CBS show Scorpion . [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Wong was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, to immigrants from Hong Kong. [3] She completed her Bachelor of Commerce at the University of British Columbia. [4] [3] She has a black belt in karate and is also a classical pianist. [3]

Career

Wong made her professional acting debut in the miniseries Broken Trail (2006) with Robert Duvall. [5] She was handpicked for the role by Duvall after hundreds of actresses were auditioned across North America.

She also appeared in Space Buddies (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 . [5]

From 2014 to 2018, Wong starred in the CBS television series Scorpion as Happy Quinn. [6] [7] In 2018, she joined the cast of Needle in a Timestack , a science fiction film written and directed by John Ridley. [8]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 Space Buddies Chinese Reporter
2010The LettersApril JungShort film
2012 Cosmopolis Money Channel Interviewer
2014 Debug Diondra
2016 You're Killing Me Susana Altagracia
2021 Needle in a Timestack Zoe Mikkelsen
2023 Weak Layers Lucy Lin

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2006 Broken Trail Ghee Moon (#1)Mini-series
2010 Caprica Game master2 episodes
2011 Rookie Blue Mary VuEpisode: "Brotherhood"
Being Erica Rachel 6 episodes
Stay with MeLiUnaired CTV pilot
2014 Lost Girl Dao MingEpisode: "Destiny's Child"
Working the Engels ShirlEpisode: "Pilot"
Spun Out Esther WingEpisode: "Carpoolers"
Client SeductionMollyTV film
2014–2018 Scorpion Happy Quinn [9] [10] Main cast (93 episodes)

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