Grace Park is an American-born Canadian actress. She gained recognition as Sharon Valerii & Sharon Agathon on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont. Park currently plays Detective Kona "Kono" Kalakaua in CBS's remake of Hawaii Five-0, which debuted September 20, 2010, on CBS. Park was born in Los Angeles, California, to American-Korean parents. When she was 22 months old, her family moved to Canada, and she was raised in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kerrisdale. Grace Park graduated from Magee Secondary School in 1992 and holds... a degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia. Park had a role in the 2007 movie West 32nd, a crime drama set in New York City’s Korean neighborhood. She appeared as Lt. Sandra Telfair in Electronic Arts' Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Tricia Helfer. In 2008, she had co-starring roles in the A&E series The Cleaner until it was canceled on September 25, 2009 and the CBC series The Border until it was canceled in 2010.
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