Gemma Chan was born the 29th November 1982, in London, England, of Chinese and Hong Kong origin, and is an actress and model, perhaps best known for starring in the film “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”, the television series “Humans series”, and landing a supporting role in the film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”. She has been active in the entertainment industry since 2006.
How much is the net worth of Gemma Chan? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of her wealth is as much as $6 million, as of the data given at the start of 2018. Film and television are the major sources of Chan’s income.
Gemma Chan Net Worth $6 million
To begin with, Gemma Chan was raised in the London district of Southwark; her father was an engineer, whereas her mother worked as a pharmacist. Gemma was educated at the girls’ school Newstead Wood in Orpington, then she studied law at Worcester College, Oxford. After graduation, she was an intern at the law firm Slaughter and May, but preferred to devote herself to an acting career, and so studied at the Drama Centre in London. Producer Damian Jones noticed her, and then hired Nicki van Gelder as her agent.
Concerning her modelling career, Chan was one of the candidates for the first season of “Project Runway”, the British version of the US program of the same name. She was photographed by Rankin for a Nivea Visage campaign after working as a model to support her studies, and training at the theatre school, appearing in the Nokia and Selfridges campaigns and in magazines such as Elle, Cosmopolitan and The Times Style Sunday, so establishing her net worth.
Regarding her career as the actress, in 2009 she starred alongside Adar Beck and Chris Carey in the psychological thriller film “Exam” by Stuart Hazeldine, then in 2010, she was cast as a main in the feature films “Pimp”, “Shanghai” and “Submarine”. The following year, she was offered the regular role of Charlotte in the series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl”, and the recurring role of Ruth in the series “Fresh Meat”; more, she appeared as a regular in the second season of the television series “Bedlam”, adding steadily to her net worth.
In 2013, Gemma was seen in the black comedy film “The Double” by Richard Ayoade, and 2014, was marked by the roles of Amy Chang in the film “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”, and Petronella in “London Fields”. Since 2015, Chan has been in the main cast of the television series “Humans”, and concurrently she had a recurring role in the series “Brotherhood”. It should be said also that Gemma Chan had a supporting role in the fantasy film directed by David Yates– “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” (2016) – which grossed $810 million at the box office. What is more, she starred in another blockbuster, “Transformers: The Last Knight” (2017), which grossed $605.4 million at the box office, and the same year she starred opposite Dominic Cooper in the film directed by Simon West, “Stratton”.
In 2018, she will be seen in several films which are scheduled to be released, including “Crazy Rick Asians” and “Mary Queen of Scots”. Gemma Chan has landed roles on the stage, too; she is known to have been working among others at the Royal National Theatre, in which she had a role in the play “Yellow Face”. To conclude, all the above mentioned engagements have added sums to the total size of Chan net worth.
Finally, in the personal life of Gemma, since 2011 she has lived with the comic actor Jack Whitehall in Notting Hill, London.
