# Chloe Bennet

Chloé Wang (Chinese: 汪可盈; pinyin: Wāng Kěyíng; born April 18, 1992), known professionally as Chloe Bennet, is an American actress, model and singer. She starred as Daisy Johnson / Quake in the ABC superhero drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020) and voiced Yi in the animated film Abominable (2019) and the television series Abominable and the Invisible City (2022–2023).

## Early life

Chloe Bennet was born Chloé Wang on April 18, 1992, in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of Bennet Wang, a private wealth banker and Stephanie Crane, an internist.
Bennet's mother is Anglo-American and her father is Chinese. She has six brothers: three biological, two foster and one adopted; two are of African American ancestry and one is of Mexican and Filipino descent. She attended St. Ignatius College Prep.

## Career
### 2007–2011: Music debut and acting beginnings

In 2007, at age 15, Bennet moved to China to pursue a singing career; while in China, Bennet lived with her paternal grandmother and studied Mandarin. Back in the US, she released two singles "Uh Oh" and "Every Day in Between" in 2011, under her birth name Chloe Wang.
In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles, California. Her first on-screen appearance was as a host for the short-lived TeenNick summer dance series The Nightlife. She appeared in the 2011 music video for South Korean band BIGBANG's "Tonight". While pursuing an acting career in Hollywood, she changed her name to "Chloe Bennet," after having trouble booking gigs with her last name. According to Bennet, using her father's first name rather than his last name avoids difficulties being cast as an ethnic Asian American while respecting her father.

### 2012–present: Breakthrough

From 2012 to 2013, she had a recurring supporting role in the ABC drama series Nashville as Hailey. In December 2012, she was cast as a series regular on the ABC series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which premiered on September 24, 2013. Bennet portrayed a hacker known as Skye, who was revealed to be Daisy Johnson / Quake in the second season. Bennet was awarded the "Visionary Award" by East West Players, the longest-running professional theater of color in the United States, on April 21, 2017, at their annual gala. She dedicated her award "to all the little girls who want to be a superhero; I'm just a half Chinese girl from the southside of Chicago."
In 2019, Bennet was cast in the lead role as Yi in the animated film Abominable. She appeared in the 2020 film Valley Girl, a jukebox musical remake of the 1983 film of the same name, as Karen, the "Queen Bee". The film was originally scheduled for release in June 2018, but was postponed due to controversy around one of its cast members, Logan Paul.
In March 2021, she was cast as Blossom Utonium in the upcoming CW live-action pilot Powerpuff, alongside Dove Cameron as Bubbles and Yana Perrault as Buttercup. However, after a decision to reshoot the pilot episode and subsequent scheduling conflicts with another project, Bennet left the project in August 2021. In 2023, she starred as the main actress in Mike Rohl's Married By Mistake as Riley Smith, a recent graduate of Stanford University who drunkenly marries her friend Nate Fisher. Later that year, Bennet joined the cast for the second season of Invincible.

## Personal life

   "I think what's really dangerous with what, continuously, is happening with Asian-Americans in Hollywood is there's a narrative that white Hollywood, or just any other ethnicity really in Hollywood gives to Asian-Americans that, 'You're the butt of the joke.' They're determining that we're the nerds, that we're the shy girls or that the guy that can't be sexy because he's an Asian man."
In 2018, she revealed that she has had anxiety and ADHD since childhood.

### Race

Bennet has described the American film and television industry as racist against Asian Americans and other people of Asian descent. In a 2016 interview, she noted, "Oh, the first audition I went on after I changed my name [from Wang to Bennet], I got booked. So that's a pretty clear little snippet of how Hollywood works."
In September 2017, after actor Ed Skrein stepped down from his role as Major Ben Daimio in the then-in production film Hellboy following backlash over the fact that Skrein, a white actor, was playing Daimio, a character who is Japanese-American in the Hellboy comics, Bennet wrote a since-deleted post on Instagram in which she applauded Skrein's decision, and addressed her own experiences as an actress of Asian descent in Hollywood, saying, "Changing my last name doesn't change the fact that my BLOOD is half Chinese, that I lived in China, speak Mandarin or that I was culturally raised both American and Chinese. It means I had to pay my rent, and Hollywood is racist and wouldn't cast me with a last name that made them uncomfortable."
In an interview for the 2024 show Interior Chinatown, Bennet said that her Chinese heritage is "always a part of every role that [she's] done". She described her upbringing as "very culturally Chinese". However, she said that she often views work as a "very 'white' thing" in which she often has to assimilate, and the Interior set was the first one where she heard Mandarin being spoken and was surrounded by a largely Asian cast and crew.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2014 | Nostradamus | Lane Fisher | Short film |
| 2015 | Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast | Chase | Voice role Direct-to-video |
| 2019 | Abominable | Yi | Voice role |
| 2020 | Valley Girl | Karen | |
| 2020 | 5 Years Apart | Emma | |
| 2023 | Married by Mistake | Riley | |
| 2023 | Rally Road Racers | Shelby | Voice role |
| 2023 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | Daisy Johnson / Quake | Photograph cameo |
| TBA | Hello Out There | Minnie | Post-production |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | The Nightlife | Herself | Host 4 episodes |
| 2012 | Intercept | Tess | Unsold pilot |
| 2012–2013 | Nashville | Hailey | 7 episodes |
| 2013–2020 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Skye / Daisy Johnson / Quake | Main role 136 episodes |
| 2014 | The Birthday Boys | Verna | Episode: "Love Date Hump" |
| 2015 | Jake and the Never Land Pirates | Swifty | Voice role Episode: "Flight of the Feathers/Captain Hookity Hook" |
| 2015 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent | Herself | Episode: "Post Heist" |
| 2016 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot | Daisy Johnson / Quake | 3 episodes |
| 2018 | Marvel Rising: Initiation | Daisy Johnson / Quake | Voice role 2 episodes |
| 2018 | Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors | Daisy Johnson / Quake | Voice role Television film |
| 2019 | Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts | Daisy Johnson / Quake | Voice role Television special |
| 2019 | Marvel Rising: Ultimate Comics | Daisy Johnson / Quake | Voice role Television special |
| 2019 | Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron | Daisy Johnson / Quake | Voice role Television special |
| 2021 | Powerpuff | Blossom | Unaired pilot |
| 2022–2023 | Abominable and the Invisible City | Yi | Voice role Main role Also consulting producer 20 episodes |
| 2023 | Dave | Robyn | Season 3 Guest role 4 episodes |
| 2024-2025 | Invincible | Riley | Voice role 2 episodes |
| 2024 | Interior Chinatown | Lana Lee | Miniseries, Main Cast |

## Discography
### Singles

| Year | Title |
| 2011 | "Uh Oh" (English Version) |
| 2011 | "Uh Oh" (Chinese Version) |
| 2011 | "Every Day in Between" |

### Music videos

| Year | Title | Artist | Ref. |
| 2011 | "Tonight" | Big Bang | |
| 2011 | "Lose Control (Take a Sip)" | Chase Jordan | |
| 2011 | "Uh-Oh" (English Version) | None | — |
| 2011 | "Uh-Oh" (Chinese Version) | None | — |
| 2011 | "Every Day In Between" | None | — |

## Awards

Awards and nominations received by Chloe Bennet :
| Award | Year | Category | Work | Result |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards | 2020 | Best Animated Female | Abominable | Nominated |
| Hawaii Film Critics Society Awards | 2020 | Best Vocal Capture | Abominable | Nominated |
| Movieguide Awards | 2019 | Most Inspiring Performance in Television | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Nominated |
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2015 | Favorite TV Actress | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Nominated |
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2016 | Favorite Female TV Star – Family Show | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Nominated |
| Teen Choice Awards | 2018 | TV Actress: Action | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Nominated |
| Teen Choice Awards | 2019 | Summer TV Star: Female | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Nominated |