Gemma Chan (born 29 November 1982) is a British film, television and theatre actress and former fashion model. She portrays Charlotte in season four of the Showtime and ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl; Ruth in Channel 4's award-winning series Fresh Meat; Mia Bennett in the BBC's Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars" and Soo Lin in Sherlock, She also appeared in the BAFTA-nominated film Exam and Paramount Pictures' action-thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. She co-stars in Humans, an AMC/Channel 4 eight-part science-fiction drama, which premiered in June 2015.

Biography

Chan lives and works in England. She is classically trained on the violin and piano. As of 2013, she and comedian/actor Jack Whitehall have been dating since 2011 and lived together in Notting Hill.

In September 2013, she appeared at the Old Bailey in Central London as a witness to a fatal stabbing outside Putney Bridge underground station.

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