Born in Seoul, Korea, Susie Park was raised in a suburb northwest of Chicago, where she attended high school and college. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in history and the literature of religions. In 1993, she won the Illinois contest and was one of the Miss USA delegates along with actress, Kelly Hu (Miss Hawaii 1993).
Park started doing commercials as a means to help pay for graduate school. Soon after, Jane Heitz, a well-respected casting director in Chicago, called her in to audition for the part of the doctor in an ABC Afterschool Special. Subsequently, Park got the role and her SAG card. The acting bug bit, and she decided to put her plans to go back to school on hold to pursue a career in acting. After training with the Center Theatre in Chicago for a couple of years, she made the decision to move to Los Angeles.
Her television credits include roles on Frasier, Clueless and Nash Bridges, in addition to turns on Friends, Movie Stars, Profiler, and Jesse. In film, she starred in The Chaos Factor and Ginseng Power. She also appeared in Blade, The Crew, Red Corner and Miracle on 34th Street.
Her interests include martial arts (she holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do), playing the piano (which she studied for 10 years), reading anything she can get her hands on, and studying religion and the meditative sciences. She especially enjoys the writings of Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts and C.S. Lewis.
