AMC's Broken Trail (with Robert Duvall), Heathen & Thieves, Hallmark's The Magic of Ordinary Days, The Jane Austen Book Club, A Day Without a Mexican, Freeloaders, Vacancy 2, Night Skies and Seventy Five

 

Television

The Mentalist, Chuck, Desperate Housewives (Eva Longoria's naughty maid, Xiao-Mei), 24, The Beast(with Patrick Swayze), Eli Stone, NYPD Blue, JAG, General Hospital, Judging Amy, Grounded for Life and Hannah Montana

 

Awards

2007 Emmy Nominee, Best Female Guest Star, Desperate Housewives; 2007 NAMIC Vision Award Nominee, Best Actress-Drama, Broken Trail; Dramalogue Award for Acting and Music in the Mark Taper's "Beautiful Country"

 

Other News

Ms. Yeo was born in Singapore and moved to America as a tween. She graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a diploma in piano, and received her bachelors from UCLA phi beta kappa summa cum laude. Ms. Yeo won the Miss Chinatown USA title in 1998, which led to commercials, hosting, and eventually a career in film and television.

Her one-woman radio show regarding her immigrant experience and where she accompanies herself on the Chinese Zither, aired on NPR’s “Politics of Culture” to rave reviews. This inspired her theatrical one-woman show, Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open, which will be mounted in Los Angeles in 2010.  A synonymous tv pilot script is in the works.  For more information, go to www.gwendolineyeo.com

With Stories on Stage

Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open by Gwendoline Yeo for What People Are My People?, Jan. 16, 2010