Elodie Yung

  French actress Elodie Yung was born on 22 February 1981 in France. She is best known for her role in the role of Elektra Natchios in the 2016 second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix series Daredevil and the 2017 Netflix miniseries The Defenders, as well as Thony De La Rosa on The 2022 Fox series The Cleaning Lady. Yung was born on 22 February 1981 in Paris. Her father is Cambodian and her mother is French. She grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis.Her father enrolled her in karate classes at age 9, and she eventually became a black belt in her late teens. Yung obtained a law degree at the University of Paris with the intention to become a judge. But, at the age of 29 she decided to pursue acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After receiving offers for roles from actors at the age of 20 Yung was offered her first roles on TV. Following her 2004 film debut as the female leading Tsu in Les fils du vent, she portrayed the ganglord Tao in District 13 Ultimatum. Yung returned to TV for the initial three seasons of the successful police series Les Bleus with Clementine Celarie. Yung was the romantic interest of Miriam Wu in Lisbeth Slander. She played the role of the Ninja Jinx in the film, and she was in G.I. Joe: Retaliation.She starred in the film Gods of Egypt (2016) as the goddess Hathor.In 2016, she appeared as Amelia Roussel in the action comedy The Hitman's Bodyguard alongside Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. In season two she was Elektra on Daredevil. The actress reprised this part in The Defenders in 2017. In the year 2020, Yung played the role of Catherine in the Disney+ film Secret Society of Second-Born Royals. Yung started to play the character of Thony on Fox's crime-drama The Cleaning Lady The Cleaning Lady in 2022.