Linda Park

Park was born in South Korea and raised in San Jose, California.^[3] She participated in a number of theatrical productions in her teens at Notre Dame High School and Bellarmine College Preparatory.^[4]

In 2000, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Boston University. During her college career, she spent a semester in England, studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.^[4] Her college stage credits included Mad Forest, Lysistrata, Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, and The Trojan Women.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, Park had a small role in the feature film Jurassic Park III as the assistant to the character Ellie Sattler.^[5]

Also in 2001, less than a year after graduation, she was cast as Hoshi Sato in Star Trek: Enterprise, the sixth series of the Star Trek franchise, which premiered in September 2001. Sato is the ship's communications officer, with a natural gift for translating alien languages. Park herself is fluent in English and Korean, and also speaks some French.^[6]

In August 2003, Park produced and starred in her first short film, My Prince, My Angel (2003).^[7]

Park is a co-founder of the theater company Underground Asylum (UA).^[3] In October 2003, she starred in UA's world premiere of the Mary Fengar Gail one-act play Fuchsia, at The Hudson Theatres in Los Angeles.^[8] In 2010, she played Clytemnestra in a production of Agamemnon at the Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Theater in Los Angeles.^[9] In 2011, she played Anne Deever in a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons at the Matrix Theater in Los Angeles.^[10]

In 2009, Park became a series regular in the second season of Crash, playing Maggie Cheon. The show was subsequently cancelled after the death of series lead Dennis Hopper.^[11][12]

Park married actor Daniel Bess on October 11, 2014.^[13] They had a child together. On February 14, 2024, Park announced that she and Bess had been separated for over a year and had divorced.^[14]

Park was diagnosed with lupus in 1997.^[15]

Park is an active student of dance, remarking that "dancing has always been my second love". She has continued to study and practice ballet and other dance forms.^[16]