Saying Grace
By GRAEME MCRANOR, 24 HOURS
Few actors will admit picking their profession strictly for fame and fortune. Ask why they do it and they'll no doubt mention passion or art - they might even scoff at the question and say acting chose them.
Not Grace Park. She became an actor ... for the catering.
"When I started doing a bunch of commercials, when I showed up they're like 'Do you want to have lunch?' and there'd be this huge table of steamed mussels and fresh-made bread and salads, just a massive spread," she says, laughing. "When I grew up, we'd go to a nice dinner - besides McDonald's - twice a year. That was it. The rest of the time, we were at home. My mom cooks very well, thank goodness, but if you only go out twice a year and then all of a sudden this is totally available every day and you get a [trailer] ... it felt like I was being taken care of, and it was pretty awesome."
Well, at least she's honest.
These days, Park is as hot as the lunches she loves. She's probably best known for her dual roles as cylon-humanoid copies Sharon Valerii/Sharon Agathon on the cult-hit Battlestar Galactica, her roles opposite Benjamin Bratt on A&E's The Cleaner and as Homeland Security Agent Liz Carver on the second season of The Border...
- Season 2 of The Border airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on CBC. Park can also be seen in her first feature role in West 32nd, which screens at the Asian Film Festival this weekend. Info at: http://www.vaff.org.
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