Gemma Chan

What strikes me about Gemma Chan is how deliberately she has built her career. An Oxford graduate who walked away from law for acting, she chose Humans, a role where the whole performance lives in micro-expressions, and made an android feel more human than the humans around her. In Crazy Rich Asians she took what could have been a decorative part and gave Astrid genuine melancholy. She underplays everything, and in an era of loud performances that restraint reads as confidence. I trust her taste in projects more than that of almost any British actor of her generation, and I suspect her best work is still ahead.

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Name (English)

Gemma Chan

Name (Japanese)

ジェンマ・チャン

Reading

じぇんま・ちゃん

Born

November 29, 1982 (age 43)

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Height

175 cm

Occupation

actor / model / television actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

University

Worcester College

Awards & achievements

• 2020 Max Mara Face of the Future Award

• Official sitehttps://www.gemmachan.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/gemmachan/
• Xhttps://x.com/gemma_chan
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma%20Chan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5530706

Tags

• actor
• model
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.