Yvonne Chapman

Yvonne Chapman, born in Calgary, is a Canadian actress and model who started in school plays at 10 and took up modeling in her late teens. She worked between Calgary and Hong Kong and in 2007 competed for Calgary in the Miss Chinese International pageant. She earned a commerce degree from the University of Calgary and later had a job in corporate development before she took leave to act in Vancouver. In 2019 she led CBC's Street Legal reboot, which did not return for a second season. The following year she took the role of Zhilan Zhang, Kung Fu's villain, on The CW, and became a series regular for season two of that reboot of the 1972 series. In 2021 she joined Netflix's live-action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender as Avatar Kyoshi. She also appears as Lt. Col. Jessalyn Helmsworth in Armorsaurs.