Elodie Yung

Born: 1981-02-22

Élodie Yung (French: [elɔdi juŋ]; born 22 February 1981) is a French actress. She is best known for her roles as Elektra Natchios in the 2016 second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix series Daredevil and The Defenders, as well as Thony De La Rosa on the 2022 Fox series The Cleaning Lady. Yung was born in Paris on 22 February 1981. Her father is Cambodian and her mother is French. She grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis. Her father enrolled her in karate classes at age 9, and she eventually became a black belt in her late teens. Yung earned a law degree at the University of Paris with the intention of becoming a judge. However, at the age of 29, she instead pursued acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Yung began acting in 2002, in the French television series La vie devant nous, and made her film debut as the female lead Tsu in 2004's Les fils du vent. She followed this with a performance as gang lord Tao in District 13: Ultimatum. Yung returned to TV for the first three seasons of the successful police series Les Bleus with Clémentine Célarié. Yung appeared briefly in the 2011 film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Miriam Wu, a romantic interest of Lisbeth Salander, and followed this with roles as the ninja Jinx in 2013's G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Gods of Egypt (2016), as the goddess Hathor. In 2016 she also starred as Amelia Roussel in the action comedy The Hitman's Bodyguard alongside Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. Yung's breakthrough performance was Elektra Natchios in season 2 of Daredevil in 2016. She reprised the role in 2017 in The Defenders. In 2020, Yung played the role of Catherine in the Disney+ film Secret Society of Second-Born Royals. In 2022, Yung began starring as Thony in the Fox crime drama series The Cleaning Lady. The show was renewed for its fourth season in 2024, with Yung set to return. In August 2018, Yung gave birth to a daughter with actor Jonathan Howard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Élodie Yung, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

as Miriam Wu
Released: 2011-12-14

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's...

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Gods of Egypt

as Hathor
Released: 2016-02-25

A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

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The Hitman's Bodyguard

as Amelia Roussel
Released: 2017-08-16

The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International...

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation

as Kim Arashikage / Jinx
Released: 2013-03-27

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order....

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District 13: Ultimatum

as Tao
Released: 2009-02-18

Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that...

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Secret Society of Second Born Royals

as Queen Catherine
Released: 2020-09-25

Sam is a teenage royal rebel, second in line to the throne of the kingdom of Illyria. Just as...

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The Great Challenge

as Tsu
Released: 2004-06-23

A multicultural band of acrobatic do-gooders take on gangsters of three great nations in this...

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Narcopolis

as Eva Gray
Released: 2015-09-25

In the near future, Frank, a police officer, discovers that the legalization of all recreational...

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Still

as Christina
Released: 2015-05-08

Tom Carver is a man stumbling blindly towards a crossroad in his life, thrown out of focus by...

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Fragile(s)

as Isa
Released: 2007-06-20

Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.

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Home Sweet Home

as Marie-Jo
Released: 2008-11-19

A family’s secret, it’s a time bomb ! Despite their fundamentally opposite characters, Albert...

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Operation Casablanca

as Isako
Released: 2011-11-09

Mistaken for a dangerous Islamist, Saadi - a regular guy who happens to be an illegal Arab...

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Believe

as Murray's Wife
Released: 2014-09-02

Chaya, a school teacher in India, is telling the story of Diwali to her pupils. At the same time...

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The Jennifer Hudson Show

as Self
First aired: 2022-09-12

Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.

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Sherri

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2022-09-12

Sherri Shepherd, actress, comic, and Emmy Award-winning longtime co-host of "The View", appears...

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Marvel's Daredevil

as Elektra Natchios
First aired: 2015-04-10

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight...

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Love, Death & Robots

as Alice (voice)
First aired: 2019-03-15

Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of...

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Love, Death & Robots

as Chantre (voice)
First aired: 2019-03-15

Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of...

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Secret Level

as The Gamemaster (voice)
First aired: 2024-12-10

Adult animated series of original short stories which are set within the worlds of beloved video...

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The Cleaning Lady

as Thony De La Rosa
First aired: 2022-01-03

A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when...

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Marvel's The Defenders

as Elektra Natchios
First aired: 2017-08-18

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist join forces to take on common enemies as a...

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La Vie devant nous

as Jade Perrin
First aired: 2002-07-06

La vie devant nous was the most popular teenage drama in France about a group of high school...

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The Rookies

as Laura Maurier
First aired: 2007-09-19

The cases of five young and well-intentioned police recruits often turn into catastrophes.

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