With over 50 feature film and television appearances to her credit, Kerry Berry Brogan is the most sought-after and recognizable American actress in the Chinese film industry today. Over the course of her career, she has played a diverse range of comedic, dramatic, starring, supporting and cameo roles, portraying spies and secret agents, students and scientists, orphans and princesses, fictional characters and historical personages.

Notable film roles include presidential daughter Tricia Nixon in The Master Plan (2011); American martial arts student Lucy in Shaolin Kongfu (2010); mermaid Dada in the special-effects blockbuster Empires of the Deep (2010); Mary in the Chinese western/action film Unusual Love (2009); journalist and real-life historical figure Helen Foster Snow in Heart to Heart (2008); and Hannah, the troubled, drug-addicted daughter of an American businessman in the 2008 dark comedy Gasp.

Notable television roles include Sister Eileen, a French nurse caught up in the Chinese Civil War in The Good Hero (2011); Helen, the wife of an American pilot in the Flying-Tigers-themed series The Great Rescue (2010); highly-trained secret agent Laney Pierce in Wilting of a Wildflower (2007); headstrong Russian Princess Sophia in the Huayi-Brothers-produced Qing Dynasty comedy Royal Tramp (2006-7); and Emma, an American orphan raised by a Chinese family in Storm on the River Song (2007).

Having worked with some of China's most outstanding actors, directors and producers, Kerry Brogan has won praise from costars and colleagues alike for her professionalism and dedication to her craft. She continues to expand her knowledge with advanced training in performance, movement and vocal techniques.

Off-screen, Brogan has played an active and important role as a cultural ambassador, bilingual blogger, and promoter of greater artistic and cultural exchange between China and the west. In 2012, she established Lotus Ray Media, a firm that will facilitate co-productions between China, New Zealand and the United States.

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Kerry Berry Brogan

Actress