Grace Park: No matter how much more developed we get technologically, whether we develop new philosophies or we get further along, faith into religion, it just seems that it keeps coming back to this. It's like a constant struggle of good and evil and actually playing itself out physically and emotionally and mentally among people, races, cultures. But it's a metaphor for so many things. Whatever you want to see or whatever you're struggling with in life, you can see there, whether it be politics or terrorism or war, hope, faith, struggle, love. It's all in there. Or if you just want plain action and neck-snapping plot twists, you've got that too. (at the May 2006 NBC Universal Summer Press Day, speaking about the popularity of Battlestar Galactica)
Interviewer: Well, if you had all the power, what would you most like to see happen to any of the Sharons? I mean, screw the show, just selfishly? Grace Park: Hmm. That she would destroy everybody and everything. She would just obliterate the universe. She’s always struggling between bad and good, and she’s tired of it. I’d just have her go kamikaze.
Grace Park: No I'm not gonna tell you what's happening in the next ten episodes. Can't make me talk! (from "Sci Fi Inside: Battlestar Galactica" special, Jan. 2, 2006, as she pulls the hood of her sweatshirt over her face and covers it completely)
Grace Park: [The destruction of Caprica] felt so 9/11 -- the hopelessness of it. I remember back then watching the towers fall over and over, and I remember how odd it was that a non-organic object [was] exploding and how painful it was. And then there I was watching this and I'm crying, and I had to remind myself this time there weren't really people dying. But it really took me back there.
Grace will appear in the 2008 Korean-language movie "West 32nd" as Lila Lee. The movie will follow the story of a Korean attorney who becomes involved in the criminal underworld of Korean gangsters in New York City.
In order to keep the various copies of her Cylon character on
None of the cast members of Battlestar Galactica had been told about the plans for the spinoff show Caprica. Grace learned about the spinoff from her manager, who read about it in Variety.
Grace's favorite holiday destination is the Maldives.
Grace loves film, fashion and arts. She also enjoys travelling, snowboarding and surfing.
Grace's character in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Proving Ground," Lt. Satterfield, shoots Daniel Jackson and later tries to save him from an explosion, although events don't transpire the way Satterfield thinks they do.
Grace is known as the Raptor expert on the set of "Battlestar Galactica." She can name all the command and control, surveillance and weapons systems of the ship off the top of her head.
Grace used to work out by doing the Grouse Grind, Vancouver's most famous hike. It is referred to as "Mother Nature's Stairmaster," a 1.8 mile hike straight up the face of Grouse Mountain.
Grace was one of four finalists in the auditions for the role of Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica.
In a Battlestar Galactica episode from Season 1, "
Grace told an interviewer that she would love to work with Wong Kar Wai or Ang Lee, two award-winning movie directors.
Grace met Herb Jefferson, Jr., at the Comic-Con International 2004, the annual comic book, science fiction and gaming convention held in San Diego. Jefferson played the Boomer character on the original Battlestar Galactica TV series.
Of the two copies of the Boomer character she plays on Battlestar Galactica, Grace finds the one on Caprica to be more fun to play. "She gets to do all the action."
Grace says that the cast of Battlestar Galactica enjoys working together. They "goof off like crazy."
Grace's husband is a real estate developer, who had been interested in becoming a director while in college.
Grace dated her future husband for three years before getting married.
Grace studied at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, during one summer in college.
Grace graduated from Magee Secondary school in 1992.
Grace was featured in a pictorial in the March 2005 issue of Maxim.
At first, her parents weren't pleased with her decision to go into acting. They wanted Grace to find a different job or go back to school. Her father said "How long are you going to do this for?" Grace replied, "You know what, I'm going to make a movie one day and make like 25 million dollars." Her father laughed at the comment. Grace was motivated to succeed in her acting career after that.
Grace attended the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Grace speaks English and Korean. She knows some French and Cantonese. She has also studied Spanish.
Grace originally auditioned for the Battlestar Galactica role of "Dualla" and then “Starbuck” before getting the role of Sharon "Boomer" Valerii.
Grace currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Grace once danced for twenty straight hours.
Grace attended a “boot camp” with other cast members prior to filming the Battlestar Galactica mini-series to learn about military life.
Grace had never seen the original Battlestar Galactica series with the male Boomer before winning the new Boomer role. In fact, she never saw any episodes of the original series until the boot camp that the cast attended prior to the filming of the 2003 miniseries.
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