Jean Yoon
Encyclopedia
Jean Yoon is a Canadian
actress, poet and playwright, based in Toronto
.
Her best-known role internationally was flight attendant Betty Ong
in The Path to 9/11
. Her other film and television roles have included A Brighter Moon, Waking the Dead
, Forget Me Never, Dragon Boys
, In the Company of Spies and La Femme Nikita. Jean was also in the Disney channel original movie Cow Bells.
Her playwriting credits include Sliding for Home & Borders and The Yoko Ono Project.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
actress, poet and playwright, based in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
.
Her best-known role internationally was flight attendant Betty Ong
Betty Ong
Betty Ann Ong , born in San Francisco, was an American flight attendant onboard American Airlines Flight 11 when it was hijacked and flown deliberately into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11 attacks....
in The Path to 9/11
The Path to 9/11
The Path to 9/11 was a two-part miniseries that aired in the United States on ABC television from September 10 – 11, 2006, and also in other countries. The film dramatizes the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City and the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks.The film...
. Her other film and television roles have included A Brighter Moon, Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead (TV series)
Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
, Forget Me Never, Dragon Boys
Dragon Boys
Dragon Boys is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation miniseries starring Eric Tsang, Byron Mann, Lawrence Chou, Tzi Ma, Lauren Lee Smith, Steph Song, Darryl Quon, Christina Ma, Jean Yoon, Simon Wong and Chang Tseng...
, In the Company of Spies and La Femme Nikita. Jean was also in the Disney channel original movie Cow Bells.
Her playwriting credits include Sliding for Home & Borders and The Yoko Ono Project.