Grace: I did a bunch of commercials and thought being on set was the best thing
in the world: you get fed, clothed, made over and then have a nap and goof off.
I thought...I could get used to this and that's when the fun ended.
After that, pretty standard, acting classes and auditions, and still going.

Shawn: What do you consider to be your "break" as an actress?

Grace: Battlestar Galactica...but at the time, I was trying to convince my parents
that Edgemont, a Canadian teen series, was HUGE!
Especially for a fledgling actress.

Shawn: What was the first television role you
landed?...as well as film role?

Grace: Hmmm...No need to invite humiliation
for film...it was "Romeo Must Die".

Shawn: Aside from Battlestar Galactica, what are you working on now?

Grace; Sanity. 
Oh! You mean work...just reading scripts &
stuff.

Shawn: Again, aside from Battlestar...what has been your favorite project in either film or television?

Grace: Well I’d say this very hush project with Ben Kingsley & Daniel Day Lewis
but then people wouldn't believe me, so I'll stick to Edgemont. 
It was like school, going back every fall, but we never had to go to class! 
We could  just hang out, have fun, and made some of my closest friends there. 
It was a very special time.

Shawn: Any special film you'd like to work
on?...essentially a dream project...

Grace I joke about Charlie's Angels...but I'm serious and "Memoirs of a geisha" would have been absolutely amazing.
I would love to work with Wong Kar Wai or Ang Lee.

Shawn: How about a personal project?...anything that you'd like to bring to film or television?

Grace: I would love to one day be part of a project that would tell the stories behind the Japanese occupation in Korea, the struggles, turmoil and heartaches and especially the tragedy of young virgin girls forced into sexual slavery, aka "comfort women"...my mom told me some about it and it  haunts me...I want to tell the stories that mean something to me, my culture and heritage.

Shawn: As far as acting is concerned...do you have preferences?...in other words...Dramatic, action or comedy roles?

Grace: Action, drama and comedy!

Shawn: Any interesting or funny stories from the set?

Grace: I like how Katee fell asleep in her viper during a take... there's this
scene where I’m alone in the brig, hands and feet bound in hardcore metal shackles, and as the ship is being attacked I'm fighting to get free, and all of a sudden I break them open!
But they weren't supposed to break, but I don't care and I just about ran outta the cell till the  director yelled cut!
And last year for the big finale where Sharon sees 12 versions of
herself, they had to do a huge 3 day casting to find exact lookalikes for me, it
was a big deal, wigs, skin match, hair on the arm match.
But on the day when I finally saw the girls, only 1 1/2 were Asian! 
They looked nothing like me.

Shawn: Getting on to a more Battlestar Galactica related question...you
portray Boomer on the new show, which originally was played by Herb
Jefferson...have you had an easy time making that character your own?

Grace: Well, she's a Cylon, there are two of them, one is programmed to obliterate
the human race, the other doesn't know that she's a robot and that she's
programmed to obliterate the human race. One's having a human-hybrid pregnancy and has killed another version of herself,
and is devoted to the Cylon plan, God and race, none of which really exists!
So really, it's been a cake walk.

Shawn: Do you feel you get a lot of fan
support?...there was a lot made of the fact that the Starbuck character is a woman in the new series.
Do you think having Boomer as a woman has created the same "stir"?

Grace: No, even changing Boomer to a Cylon didn't create the same stir!
The fans have been wonderful.

Shawn: It does seem that your character has quite a pivotal role on the show...did you expect that going into the series?

Grace: Hell no!

Shawn: In terms of character development, where would you like to see Boomer go?

Grace: I would like to see her strength, and how she'll deal with her anger and
hatred of the oppression she's felt towards the humans, and how that will battle with her new feelings of experiencing love.

Shawn: Any advice you'd like to share with the aspiring actors and actresses out there?

Grace: "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort
without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who, at
worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

*Theodore Roosevelt {1858-1919 26th US President}

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

*Anatole France  {1844-1924 French Author}

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it."

*William James {1842-1909 American Psychologist & Author}

"No matter what age you are, or what your
circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to
offer.
Your life, because of who you are, has meaning."

*Barbara De Angelis

"Dare, believe, and search for that truth in your heart that you are special. 
When you find it, you will know.

Shawn: Anything you'd like to say directly to the fans?

Grace: Thank You!