Jae Suh Park

Biography

Jae Suh Park is an American actress of Korean ancestry, she was born in Korea & grew up in United States. She is known for her role as Marianne- the yoga instructor on Netflix original comedy 'Friends from College'.

Childhood- Family

Jae Suh Park was born on 5th April 1984 in Korea. She grew up in Lodi, California.

She has a brother named Jay. Now lives in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States with her husband and daughter. 

Image: Jae Suh Park school days

[Jae Suh Park & Mother- childhood photo]

Education

• Jae studied acting in College, her teacher encouraged her to take acting as profession after noticing her abilities. She majors in Designing.

Marriage - Husband

Jae Suh Park & Randall Park

Jae Suh Park and actor/ comedian/ writer Randall Park met at a nonprofit fundraiser in 2007, he proposed to her at Billingsley's Steak House, Los Angeles, they got married in 2008, Randall played Kim Jong-Un in the movie The Interview(2014). 

First meeting: Jae met her future husband Randall at a fundraiser event where Randall had painted an armless squirrel, the first time they met Jae asked Randall 'How much did you get for that painting?' (Randall's friend bought it for $20, no one else was bidding). They were stuck in a waiting room with nothing to do, they started talking, she got a call in the middle and walked away.

Second meeting: Jae and Randall met second time during a commercial audition, they were auditioning for the same role (it appears that they had one "Asian" slot).

After the audition Randall invited Jae to his birthday party at his Mar Vista apartment. Randall was playing Atari with couple of his friends. They didn't get any alone time that day, Randall asked her out when she was leaving for home. 

[Jae Suh Park and husband Randall Park]

Daughter

The couple have a daughter named Ruby Park born in 2013. Ruby is a very active kid, she has learnt to entertain herself browsing youtube videos on her mother's tab. Ruby has also appeared on the comedy web series "Baby Mentalist" alongside her parents. In an interview to L.A Weekly in 2014  her mother revealed that Ruby once reported a children's video for adult content on youtube.

[Ruby Park & Randall Park]

Interesting facts

• Jae, the dinosaur: When Jae was 8 year old she played the role of a dinosaur in school.
• Move to San Francisco: She moved out of her house to San Francisco in a Corolla (car) looking for a career in acting.
• Jae often plays the character which is the love interest of the character played by Randall in his projects. They have appeared together in "The Mindy Project", Love NY (they have a poster of them together from the film at home)
• Things that make her angry: Mom-shaming, Body-shaming.
• What she likes doing: Making her daughter & husband laugh, creating skincare regimen, finding good & firm pillow.
• Ruby Park Pictures, Inc.: With her husband Randall she is involved with the production of movies/ TV series.
• Friendship: She has been good friends with co-star Cobie Smulders, Her husband Taran Killam & Jae's husband Randall Park are friends as well.

Career

Jae has appeared in TV series like ER, Strong Medicine, The Andy Dick Show, Robbery Homicide Division, Punk'd, How I Met Your Mother, Campus Ladies, NCIS: Los Angeles, Community, The Food, Dumb Professor, Sex Teenagers, A Series of Unfortunate People, The Mindy Project, Baby Mentalist, Markees vs., Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing, Adam Ruins Everything, Dr. Ken, Uncle Buck, Bad Internet, Friends from College.

Some of the movies she has appeared in are: Teacher's Pet (2000), Purity (2006), Road to the Altar (2009), Our Footloose Remake (2011), What If People Died (2012), Starting from Scratch (2013), Awesome Asian Bad Guys (2014), The Big Short (2015), The Meddler (2015).

She has sent voice for video game characters in games like- Saints Row (2006), Driver: San Francisco (2011)

The Mindy Project

Randall and Jae have apepared together on "The Mindy Project" by Mindy Kaling.

[Jae Suh Park & Randall Park with Mindy Kaling]

Filmography

Movies List

TV Series List

Short Movies List

Video Games

• Driver: San Francisco- she has given voices to various characters in the video game
• Saints Row: She has voiced the character of a Stilwater's Resident in the video game

News & Updates

• She was on the cover page of CVLux in May 2019
• Randall & Jae both were on the cover page of CVLux magazine
• "Next Big Thing" Canada Magazine featured her on the cover page in April 2019
• She was covered in the Reader mag in February 2019

Quotes

• I want to be involved in projects with quality roles for women.
• Things always change, what might be horrific one day, might not be the next day.
• I've been in the business long enough to know that not one thing is a career changer.

Sources

1. Jae Suh Park wiki
2. Jae Suh Park- Imdb
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