Élodie Yung

Élodie Yung is one of those actors who quietly earns your respect before you even realize it's happening. She's French, trained in karate, studied law at the University of Paris, and somehow ended up playing one of Marvel's most compelling antiheroes — Elektra in Daredevil season two and The Defenders — with a ferocity that felt genuinely earned rather than just choreographed. Then she pivoted to The Cleaning Lady on Fox and showed a completely different gear: raw, warm, maternal, and morally complicated in the best way. The range is real. She's not a household name in the flashy sense, but anyone who's actually watched her work knows she elevates everything she's in. A quietly formidable presence.

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Name (English)

Élodie Yung

Name (Japanese)

エロディ・ユン

Reading

えろでぃ・ゆん

Born

February 22, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

9th arrondissement of Paris, France

Occupation

actor / film actor / karateka / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

University

University of Paris

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/e.l.o.d.i.e.y.u.n.g/
• Xhttps://x.com/elodieyung
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lodie%20Yung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AD%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326837

Tags

• actor
• film actor
• karateka

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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