Mayko Nguyen (born April 19, 1980) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Mayko Tran on ReGenesis.

Biography

She grew up in Vancouver where she pursued her love of acting at Eric Hamber Secondary School. There she performed in many of her school's theatrical productions; she played Addaperle in The Wiz, Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the lead role in Family Portrait and Dora Tomb in Tomb with a View.

Nguyen continued to develop her acting abilities at the University of British Columbia in the productions Over the Moon and The Bacchae. While attending UBC, Nguyen started to study with Gemini Award-winning actor Jeff Seymour, who cast her as an actor in An Evening of Scenes he was directing. She continues to take Scene Study classes with Seymour in Toronto.

Her list of film and television credits include, the PAX TV science fiction Mysterious Ways, the Simon Fraser University film Sophisticated Boom Boom and Vancouver Film School's Great Expectation, and a role in the Lifetime series, Wild Card starring Joely Fisher. Nguyen landed the starring role in the MuchMusic movie Going the Distance. She had a lead role as Ming in the eight part television series, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, which premiered on HBO Canada in 2010.

To maintain a balanced life, when Nguyen is not performing she practises yoga. A quick study, Nguyen reprises her role as "Mayko Tran", the fiery bioinformatics researcher at NorBAC.