Joan Chong Chen aka Chen Chong

Joan Chen's first genre work was guest starring in numerous tv series during the late 1980s.
She created a buzz among fanboys (and fangirls) for her physically-grueling performance in The Blood of Heroes, and then hit the big-time as the mysterious Josie Packard in Twin Peaks.
Unfortunately, this resulted in her becoming typecast as an "enigmatic exotic beauty".

Feeling her acting choices were becoming limited, Joan turned to other aspects of filmmaking, resulting in her first project as director and co-writer, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl!
Critical acclaim and numerous awards have been showered on the film itself and her work on it.
She continues to act, direct and produce.
Joan made a return to genre with appearances on Fringe and the most recent version of Journey to the West.

Trivia: A rock band named itself Xiu Xiu in honor of the awrd-winning film!

Genre appearances include...
Fringe "Immortality"
Journey to the West [2010] (Guan Yin)
Avatar [2004] aka Cyber Wars aka Matrix Hunter (Madame Org)
Purple Storm (Shirley Chen)
Outer Limits [1998] "Phobos Rising"
Judge Dredd (Ilsa Hayden)
The Hunted (Kirina)
On Deadly Ground (Masu)
Tales from the Crypt "Food for Thought"
Steel Justice (Nicole Loa)
Nightmare Cafe "Pilot"
Twin Peaks / Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Jocelyn Packard aka Josie)
Wedlock aka DeadLock (Noelle)
The Blood of Heroes aka Salute of the Jugger (Kidda)
The Night Stalker aka The Man Who Could Not Be Killed (Mai Wing)
WiseGuy "All or Nothing"
MacGyver "Golden Triangle"
Miami Vice "Golden Triangle"
Note: the two "Golden Triangle" episodes are not related.
Joan plays different characters in each.
Knight Rider "Knight of the Drones"
Matt Houston "Target: Miss World"

Check out...
Joan Chen Picture Galleries (FanSite)
Joan Chen Pictures (FanSite)

Candice (Kandyse) McClure

Born in South Africa, now living in Vancouver, Kandyse is an extremely talented actress with an amazing amount of genre credits.
It seems she's appeared in every genre series filmed in Canada since 2000. (Not that we're complaining!)
She just popped up in the fifth episode of Persons Unknown, and if her name in the opening credits is any indication, she'll be around for the remainder of the series!

Genre appearances include...
Persons Unknown (Erika Taylor)
Steven King's Children of the Corn(Vicki)
Barbie in "A Christmas Carol"(Catherine/Young Catherine)
Sanctuary(Meg)
Reaper( Nurse Cassidy)
Battlestar Galactica: the MiniSeries/Battlestar Galactica/Battlestar Galactica: Razor 
(Petty Officer, later Lieutenant, Anastasia Dualla aka Dee)
DaVinci's InQuest(Marla)
Smallville"Spirit"
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"The Others"
Jake 2.0 "The Prince & the Revolution"
Jeremiah(Elizabeth)
Level 9 "Ten Little Hackers"
Twilight Zone[2003] "Fair Warning"
Mysterious Ways"A Man of God"
Dark Angel(Anne Fisher)
New Outer Limits"Abduction"
Return to the Cabin by the Lake(Jade)
Romeo Must Die(Store Clerk)

Check out...
Her Official WebSite (I'm not sure of this one)
Illuminate (FanSite)

Grace Park

Grace Park is an in-demand genre tv veteran.
In fact, over half of her credits are genre productions!
She's appeared in most of the Canadian-produced sf / fantasy series of the past decade (usually in several episodes at a time), and with good reason...
She displays a great acting range from comedy to drama, and handles action / stunts with panache.

Genre appearances include...
Hawaii 5-0 [2010] (Kono Kalakaua)
The Border (Special Agent Liz Carver)

Human Target(Eva Khan)
Battlestar Galactica / Battlestar Galactica: Razor / Battlestar Galactica: Face of the Enemy (webisodes) / Battlestar Galactica: the MiniSeries / Battlestar Galactica: the Plan / (Lt Sharon Valleri Agathon aka Athena / Lt Sharon Valleri aka Boomer / Cylon Number 8 [all of them])

Steven King's the Dead Zone "Speak Now" (Sexy Bridesmaid)

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda "Machinery of the Mind" (Doctor26Carol)

Stargate SG1 "Proving Ground" (Lt. Satterfield)

Dark Angel "Designate This" (Female Breeding X5)

The New Outer Limits "Time to Time" "Bits of Love" (Satchiko)
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars [VG] (Lt Sandra Telfair)

The Immortal (Mikiko)

Secret Agent Man (LouAnn)

Jake 2.0 (Fran Yoshida)

Jinnah: On Crime "White Knight, Black Widow" (Cynthia Wong)

Romeo Must Die (Dancer)

There doesn't appear to be an "official" Grace Park website, but there are quite a few fansites including...

Grace Park News

Grace Park Central

Grace Park OnLine

Note: there's also a talented pro golfer named "Grace Park", so if you Google, you'll probably find some of her sites as well.
You might want to add "Galactica", "Battlestar" or "actress" to "Grace Park" when using a search engine...

Athena and Boomer were two different characters on the original Battlestar Galactica.
Maren Jensen played Lt. Athena, daughter of Cdr Adama and sister of Capt Apollo.
Herb Jefferson Jr played Lt. (later Col.) Boomer. NOTE: Col. Boomer was a character on Galactica: 1980, a sequel series most fans consider apocryphal / non-canon.
Other performers to play Kono Kalakaua include Zulu aka Gilbert Lani Kauhi, in Hawaii 5-0 [1968-72]