Samantha Wan

Samantha Wan
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Actress, director, screenwriter, producer, web series creator
Years active	2010–present
Notable work	Jen Wu on Second Jen, Zoe Chow in Private Eyes

Samantha Wan is a Canadian actress, screenwriter, producer and web series creator. She is best known for co-creating and starring in the City television series Second Jen. Since 2017, she has also starred in the Global Television Network series Private Eyes.

In addition to her work on Second Jen, Wan is also the creator, writer and star of Sudden Master, which is a female-centric web series that focuses on Chinese martial arts. It was funded and produced with OMNI and has won several awards, including Best Action Series at the Vancouver Web Series Festival in 2016. The series was released on YouTube via the KindaTV channel, which is run by Smokebomb Entertainment.

Wan has been outspoken about the need for more diversity on TV. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Wan said: "We realized we were auditioning for mail order brides and geishas — we needed to make our own shows to represent the neighbourhoods we grew up in."

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