Jean Yoon

Jean Yoon (born 1962) is a Canadian actress, writer, poet and playwright. She is known for her performance as Umma, the matriarch of the Kim family, in the award-winning CBC television series Kim's Convenience, for which she won an ACTRA Award and received two Canadian Screen Award nominations. She also portrayed the same role in the 2011 play of the same name. 2Early life Yoon was born in Illinois to parents of Korean descent, in 1962, and subsequently raised in Toronto, where she currently resides and works. 2Career 31980s–1990s: Early career in theatre Yoon started her career in theatre as an actress in the early 1980s, but soon quit in frustration after she struggled to attract work. A decade later, in 1995, she returned to acting and started her own group called Loud Mouth Asian Babes, through which she has written and produced plays that focus on the Korean diaspora, mostly in Canada. 32000s: Transition into television and film Yoon's acting career began to flourish in the early 2000s, with small roles in several television series, including La Femme Nikita (1996–2001), Witchblade (TNT, 2000–2002) and Street Time (Showtime, 2001–2003). In 2006, Yoon achieved wider recognition after playing flight attendant Betty Ong in the controversial mini-series The Path to 9/11. Also in 2006, Yoon had a recurring role as June Kim in the legal drama series This Is Wonderland.In 2007, Yoon received a Gemini Award nomination for her work in the CBC mini-series Dragon Boys. In 2009, she portrayed D