Chloe Bennet

 ( 1992 Births ) 

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 television pilot 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.

In 2017, Bennet praised English actor Ed Skrein's choice to step down from his role as Ben Daimio for the film Hellboy following backlash due to the character being Japanese-American. Bennet took to Instagram reminiscing on her early career, 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 ... 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.

While Simu Liu's role as Shang-Chi is recognised as the first theatrical Asian superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise, Bennet's role as Daisy Johnson / Quake in the television show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is widely considered to be the first official Asian superhero in the MCU. In 2020, Bennet spoke out against Asian culture being a trend, noting that Marvel Studios casting her as Quake "ultimately ended up writing to fit her ethnicity and her diversity, and made that a part of the character and it only added richness to the character". Her Campus writer Abbie Jordan argued that Marvel erased Bennet's impact as the first Asian superhero, noting that while "Johnson isn't the only incredible character, her erasure in pop culture is most disappointing". In 2022, Bennet posted selfies with Liu on social media, with the caption jokingly saying, "oh look it's marvels first asian superhero..and @SimuLiu is also in the pic too".

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