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." īennet 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. Bennet portrayed a hacker known as Skye, who was revealed to be Daisy Johnson / Quake in the second season. 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. įrom 2012 to 2013, she had a recurring supporting role in the ABC drama series Nashville as Hailey. 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. While pursuing an acting career in Hollywood, she changed her name to "Chloe Bennet," after having trouble booking gigs with her last name. She appeared in the 2011 music video for South Korean band BIGBANG's " Tonight". Her first on-screen appearance was as a host for the short-lived TeenNick summer dance series The Nightlife. In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles, California. Back in the US, she released two singles, both in 2011: "Uh Oh" and "Every Day in Between". While in China, Bennet lived with her paternal grandmother and studied Mandarin. In 2007, at age 15, Bennet moved to China to pursue a singing career, under her birth name, Chloé Wang ( 汪 可 盈).
She has seven brothers: four biological, two foster and one adopted two are of African American ancestry and one is of Mexican and Filipino ancestry.
īennet's mother is Anglo-American and her father is Chinese. She is the daughter of Bennet Wang, an investment banker and Stephanie Crane, an internist. Chloe Bennet was born Chloé Wang on April 18, 1992, in Chicago, Illinois.
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