Sumalee Montano

Sumalee Montano is an American actress who came to performing after several years as an analyst at an investment bank in New York City and Hong Kong. Born in Columbus and raised mostly in the United States, with a few years spent in Bangkok, she earned a degree from Harvard University in 1993 and worked for Morgan Stanley before leaving to pursue acting. Her first voice role was Pudding in the 1999 game Space Channel 5, and her first major screen part was the nurse Duvata Mahal across three seasons of ER. She has appeared in live-action series including Close to Home, Days of Our Lives, Nashville, Scandal, The Young and the Restless, This Is Us and Veep, and in 2021 drew acclaim as Inoue Sato in The Lost Symbol. Her voice work includes Arcee on Transformers: Prime, Katana on Beware the Batman, Cali in the Skylanders series and Yuna in Ghost of Tsushima.