Grace Park (born March 14, 1974)is an American-born Canadian actress. She gained recognition as Sharon Valerii 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’ remake of Hawaii Five-0, which debuted September 20, 2010 on CBS.

Started out as a model.
Loves extreme sports and travelling.
Spoke English in the family home, knows a little French (being raised and educated in Canada).
After graduating from college, wanted to try acting for only a year, but ended up getting a teen show called “Edgemont” (2000) right away.
Born in Los Angeles, but moved to Canada at 22 months. Considers herself a Canadian native, but always a Korean first.
Named #81 on the Maxim magazine “Hot 100 of 2005″ list.
Made #93 Maxim “Hot 100″ list of 2006
She ranked #60 on “Maxim’s Hot 100 of 2010″.
Has starred in two remakes of earlier shows, “Battlestar Galactica” (2004) (“Battlestar Galactica” (1978)) and “Hawaii Five-0″ (2010) (“Hawaii Five-O” (1968)). Both of her characters, Boomer and Kono respectively, were originally male.