Biography

Christine Toy Johnson is an award-winning actor, playwright, director and advocate for inclusion. She is best known as "Sherry Yang" on Season 2 of the Netflix/Marvel series "Iron Fist" and "Diane" in the first national tour of "Come From Away". Previously known for playing "Linh Gaad" on "The Americans" , "Professor Allison Mott" on the Lifetime series "YOU" and "Dr Celia Lee" on "Law and Order: SVU" as well as guest starring roles on "Bull", "Mr. Robot", "Madam Secretary", "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" etc. Also: "Detective Lisa West" on "One Life to Live", "Sister Mary Leo" on "Nunsense"/"Nunsense 2", and a multitude of stage work on Broadway, Off-Broadway and in regional theaters across the U.S. including the Guthrie, Williamstown and The Huntington. Her screenplay "Jumping the Third Rail" won a Meryl Streep/Iris Writers Lab fellowship in 2016 and prior to that, her written work was included in the Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Performing Arts Collection in 2010. She was

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Filmography