Top 10 Interesting Facts about Elodie Yung

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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Elodie Yung

Elodie Yung was born on February 22, 1981, in Paris France. She is a French actress best known for her role as Elektra Natchios in the second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix series Daredevil in 2016.

Yung’s father is a Cambodian and her mother is French. When she was 9 of age her father enrolled her on karate classes and eventually became a black belt in her late teens.

 She is educated and pursued a degree in Law at the University of Paris to become a judge. However, she later changed her career dream and instead pursued acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

1. Secured Roles in Several Movies Films

Elodie Yung is an actor and she secured roles in several movie films during her career. Some of the movies she got a chance and acted in include:

In 2004, she played Tsu, in the action film Les fils du vent by Yves Marmion and distributed by Manga Entertainment, In 2007 she acted as Isa in Fragile movie, in 2008 she played Home Sweet Home as Marie-Jo, District 13: Ultimatum as Tao in 2009, she played as The woman in Let Her in 2010 and the same year she played Operation Casablanca as Isako among others.

2. She is Married to Fellow Actor

The actress is married to fellow actor, Jonathan Howard. Jonathan is an English actor and he is known for his role on the British Tv series Dream Team as Gavin Moody. The two lovers met as they undertook their acting work around 2016 and they started a relationship.

It is interesting to know that she got married to an actor. Their relationship was born fruits and they were blessed with a daughter on August 2, 2018, Christened Minavann Yung Howard.

3. Elodie has Attained a Degree in Bachelor of Law

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Before Elodie joined the acting and decided to be an actor his dream was to become a judge. She attended classes at the University of Paris in France where she enrolled to pursue the Bachelor of Laws (LLB).

She eventually earned a law degree from the university but instead of following her dream of becoming a Judge, at the age of 29, she defected to acting and started attending its classes at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

4. She Got into Acting by Chance

Elodie during her childhood days never had an interest in becoming an actress. She fell in love with film during her school days while attending law school. It just happened by chance after a friend told her she could make money doing commercials.

 Yung started hitting casting calls and a casting director approached and asked if she had acting experience, to secure an opportunity she lied she did. She auditioned and won the role of Jade Perrin in a television show named La vie Devant nous, it was the most popular teenage drama series in France.

She was featured in 30 episodes from 2002-2003. That is how she secured a change and she started playing in movies and become a big actor.

5. She Acted in Several Television Shows

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The professional French Actress has secured many roles in television shows since her acting career started back at the University of Paris. Some of the Television show she has featured in include:

In the year 2002 to 2003, Elodie Yung secured her first role in Television Show named La vie Devant nous and played as Jade Perrin, in 2005- 2007, played as Fanny Ledoin in Mademoiselle Joubert show, Les Bleus as Laura Maurier in 2006-2010, in 2007 Securite Interieure as Josephine and Little Wenzhou as Su in 2009 among others.

6. She Replaced Shannyn Sossamon in ‘The Cleaning Lady’

The cleaning Lady is a television series featuring a young as Cambodian doctor named Phony who comes to the United States to get her son life-saving medical treatment but things go wrong and she ends up taking a cleaning position for the local mafia.

Elodie Yung was given the role to replace Shannyn Sossamon who originally played the role due to the show’s discussion of immigration and the explicit labelling of Thony as Cambodian, having a Cambodian actress such as Yung play the role was arguably for the best.

7. She was Enrolled on Karate Classes at Age of 9

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It is interesting to know that Elodie enrolled on Karate Classes when she was young. At the age of 9, her father took her to Karate classes because the neighbourhood where they lived was so rough.

In her teens she became a black belt, she told the New York Post. When she was 14 of age, she was attacked by two guys on the street, they were at the top of some stairs and she managed to turn and kick one and he fell down the stairs while the other one she garbed around the neck and bang his head against the wall when people of helping arrived.

8. Her Actress Career Helped her Father Reconcile with His Past

Yung’s father left Cambodia his home town when the political situation started to erode in the 1970s and moved to France. Elodie says that his father managed to escape because he was in the army, and he was not in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge took over.

For years he did not go back to Cambodia, and Yung went to Cambodia before him when they were filming a movie in Thailand. She says “when I called him from there, he was crying on the phone with me. After a couple of years, he decided to go back”. This is one of the interesting facts about Elodie since her acting career helped her dad forget pat and move on and he now stays in Cambodia.

9. Elodie Yung is a French Actress

Elodie is a French Actress and is well known for her role as Elektra Natchios in the year 2016 second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix series Daredevil.

She was born in Paris France; her father is of Chinese Cambodian background while her mother is French Italian. She remarked on her cultural development and identity quoting, “I feel I am fully French, even though I grew up in Cambodian Culture.” Hence, she is a French Actress.

10. She Earns Millions of Money From her Acting Career

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The Actress has acted in multiple movies and television shows. She makes millions of money from movies and television shows, for example, The Hitman’s Bodyguard hit over $ 170 million at the Box Office, and the G.I: Retaliation earned over $ 375 million not forgetting The Girl with the Dragon grossing over $ 290 million.

This shows how Elodie Yung is stinky rich, rolling in the money. It is approximately said that Elodie Yung’s net worth is $ 3 million, and the money is all from her acting career.