ELAINE KAO
Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin and Associates 818-769-9111
FILM UPSIDE DOWN MAGIC Supporting Joe Nussbaum, Dir. . MANIFEST WEST Supporting Joe Dietsch & Louie Gibson, Dir. PAPER TIGER Supporting Paul Kowalski, Dir. BRIDESMAIDS Supporting Paul Feig, Dir. FUNNY PEOPLE Supporting Judd Apatow, Dir. MADE IN CHINATOWN (NBCU SHORT CUTS Best Short) Lead Kevin Lau, Dir. RED DOORS (TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL Best Narrative Feature) Lead Georgia Lee, Dir. THE WEDDING PALACE Supporting Christine Yoo, Dir.
TELEVISION (partial list) SNOWPIERCER Recurring Guest Star TNT NO GOOD NICK Recurring Netflix-Multiple directors FOR THE PEOPLE Guest Star ABC-Tom Verica DISJOINTED Guest Star Netflix-James Burrows FRESH OFF THE BOAT Guest Star ABC-Nahnatchka Khan HAWAII FIVE-0 Guest Star CBS-Maja Vrvilo THE COMEBACK Co-star HBO-Michael Patrick King LIV AND MADDIE Guest Star Disney-Andy Fickman NCIS-LA Guest Star CBS-Alan J. Levi THE CLOSER Guest Star TNT-Elodie Keene ENTOURAGE Guest Star HBO-David Nutter CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM Guest Star HBO-Robert Weide COLD CASE Guest Star CBS-David Von Ancken GREY’S ANATOMY Recurring ABC-Multiple directors HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Co-star CBS-Pamela Fryman HOME GAME (Pilot) Recurring CBS-Ken Whittingham 24 Co-star FOX-Jon Cassar SIX FEET UNDER Guest Star HBO-Dan Minahan
THEATRE THE JOY LUCK CLUB Jing-Mei East West Players SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER Catherine Lodestone Theatre Ensemble SISTERS MATSUMOTO Rose East West Players SUN SISTERS Young Angie Company of Angels SOLVE FOR X Hannah (Lead) Lodestone Theatre Ensemble BILL’S EYE Clary (Lead) The Met Theatre 99 HISTORIES (Pacific Playwrights Festival) Young Woman South Coast Repertory THE CALIBAN Ching Sacred Fools Theatre AMERICAN MONSTERS Kira (Lead) Lodestone Theatre Ensemble WOUNDS TO THE FACE Soldier/Dictator Rude Guerilla Theatre A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Catherine Walt Disney Modular Theatre
TRAINING CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS (CALARTS) MFA in Acting STAN KIRSCH STUDIOS Ongoing MARGIE HABER STUDIOS Cold Reading Technique IMPROV Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB)
SPECIAL SKILLS LANGUAGES: Fluent in Mandarin Chinese DIALECTS: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Standard British, Filipino, Brooklyn, Southern