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Chloe Bennet
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Bennet in 2018
Born
Chloé Wang

(1992-04-18) April 18, 1992 (age 32)
Occupation
  • Actress
  • Model
  • Singer
Years active 2009–present
Chinese name
Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Wāng Kěyíng

Chloé Wang (Chinese: 汪可盈; pinyin: Wāng Kěyíng; born April 18, 1992), known professionally as Chloe Bennet, is an American actress, model and singer. She starred as Daisy Johnson / Quake in the ABC superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020) and voiced Yi in the animated film Abominable (2019) and the television series Abominable and the Invisible City (2022–2023).

Early life

Chloe Bennet was born Chloé Wang on April 18, 1992, in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of Bennet Wang, an investment banker and Stephanie Crane, an internist.

Bennet's mother is Anglo-American and her father is Chinese. She has six brothers: three biological, two foster and one adopted; two are of African American ancestry and one is of Mexican and Filipino descent. She attended St. Ignatius College Prep.

Career

2007–2011: Music debut and acting beginnings

In 2007, at age 15, Bennet moved to China to pursue a singing career; while in China, Bennet lived with her paternal grandmother and studied Mandarin. Back in the US, she released two singles "Uh Oh" and "Every Day in Between" in 2011, under her birth name Chloe Wang.

Chloe Bennet at PaleyFest 2014
Bennet at PaleyFest 2014

In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles, California. Her first on-screen appearance was as a host for the short-lived TeenNick summer dance series The Nightlife. She appeared in the 2011 music video for South Korean band BIGBANG's "Tonight". While pursuing an acting career in Hollywood, she changed her name to "Chloe Bennet," after having trouble booking gigs with her last name. According to Bennet, using her father's first name rather than his last name avoids difficulties being cast as an ethnic Asian American while respecting her father.

2012–present: Breakthrough

From 2012 to 2013, she had a recurring supporting role in the ABC drama series Nashville as Hailey. In December 2012, she was cast as a series regular on the ABC series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which premiered on September 24, 2013. Bennet portrayed a hacker known as Skye, who was revealed to be Daisy Johnson / Quake in the second season. Bennet was awarded the "Visionary Award" by East West Players, the longest-running professional theater of color in the United States, on April 21, 2017, at their annual gala. She dedicated her award "to all the little girls who want to be a superhero; I'm just a half Chinese girl from the southside of Chicago."

In 2019, Bennet was cast in the lead role as Yi in the animated film Abominable. She appeared in the 2020 film Valley Girl, a jukebox musical remake of the 1983 film of the same name, as Karen, the "Queen Bee". The film was originally scheduled for release in June 2018, but was postponed due to controversy around one of its cast members, Logan Paul.

In March 2021, she was cast as Blossom Utonium in the upcoming CW live-action pilot Powerpuff, alongside Dove Cameron as Bubbles and Yana Perrault as Buttercup. However, after a decision to reshoot the pilot episode and subsequent scheduling conflicts with another project, Bennet left the project in August 2021. In 2023, she starred as the main actress in Mike Rohl's Married By Mistake as Riley Smith, a recent graduate of Stanford University who drunkenly marries her friend Nate Fisher. Later that year, Bennet joined the cast for the second season of Invincible.

Personal life

In 2018, she revealed that she has had anxiety and ADHD since childhood.

Bennet has described the American film and television industry as racist against Asian Americans and other people of Asian descent. In a 2016 interview, she noted, "Oh, the first audition I went on after I changed my name [from Wang to Bennet], I got booked. So that's a pretty clear little snippet of how Hollywood works." In September 2017, after actor Ed Skrein stepped down from his role as Major Ben Daimio in the then-in production film Hellboy following backlash over the fact that Skrein, a white actor, was playing Daimio, a character who is Japanese-American in the Hellboy comics, Bennet wrote a since-deleted post on Instagram in which she applauded Skrein's decision, and addressed her own experiences as an actress of Asian descent in Hollywood, saying, "Changing my last name doesn't change the fact that my BLOOD is half Chinese, that I lived in China, speak Mandarin or that I was culturally raised both American and Chinese. It means I had to pay my rent, and Hollywood is racist and wouldn't cast me with a last name that made them uncomfortable."

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Nostradamus Lane Fisher Short film
2015 Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast Chase Voice role
Direct-to-video
2019 Abominable Yi Voice role
2020 Valley Girl Karen Supporting Role
5 Years Apart Emma Supporting Role
2023 Married by Mistake Riley Main Role
Rally Road Racers Shelby Voice role
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Daisy Johnson / Quake Photograph cameo
TBA Hello Out There Minnie Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2010 The Nightlife Herself Host
4 episodes
2012 Intercept Tess Unsold pilot
2012–2013 Nashville Hailey 7 episodes
2013–2020 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Skye / Daisy Johnson / Quake Main role
136 episodes
2014 The Birthday Boys Verna Episode: "Love Date Hump"
2015 Jake and the Never Land Pirates Swifty Voice role
Episode: "Flight of the Feathers/Captain Hookity Hook"
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent Herself Episode: "Post Heist"
2016 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot Daisy Johnson / Quake 3 episodes
2018 Marvel Rising: Initiation Voice role
2 episodes
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors Voice role
Television film
2019 Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts Voice role
Television special
Marvel Rising: Ultimate Comics
Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron
2021 Powerpuff Blossom Unaired pilot
2022–2023 Abominable and the Invisible City Yi Voice role
Main role
Also consulting producer
20 episodes
2023 Dave Robyn Season 3
Guest role
4 episodes
2024 Invincible Riley Voice role
Episode: "I Thought You Were Stronger"
Interior Chinatown Lana Lee Miniseries, Main Cast

Discography

Singles

Year Title Ref.
2011 "Uh Oh" (English Version)
"Uh Oh" (Chinese Version)
"Every Day in Between"

Music videos

Year Title Artist Ref.
2011 "Tonight" Big Bang
"Lose Control (Take a Sip)" Chase Jordan
"Uh-Oh" (English Version) None N/A
"Uh-Oh" (Chinese Version)
"Every Day In Between"

Awards

  • 2015 Nominee for 'Favorite Family TV Actress' for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the Kids Choice Awards
  • 2016 Nominee for 'Favorite Family TV Actress' for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the Kids Choice Awards
  • 2018 Nominee for 'TV Actress: Action' for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the Teen Choice Awards
  • 2019 Nominee for 'Summer TV Star: Female' for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the Teen Choice Awards
  • 2019 Nominee for 'Most Inspiring Performance in Television' for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the Movieguide Awards
  • 2020 Nominee for 'Best Animated Female' for Abominable at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards
  • 2020 Nominee for 'Best Vocal Capture' for Abominable at the Hawaii Film Critics Society Awards

See also

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