Christine Ko is an accomplished actress, having played the leader of the resistance on The Handmaid’s Tale, proved her comedic chops on season two of Only Murders in the Building, and currently starring as Emma on Dave, FX’s most-watched comedy ever (season three of which is airing now). But Ko didn’t always know she’d end up as an onscreen performer. Raised by her adoptive aunt in Georgia, Ko originally pursued a career in finance. But upon meeting her biological parents—both stars on Chinese television—at the age of 21, she realized acting was her dream all along. After working in the entertainment industry in Taiwan for years, Ko broke out with her role on Dave, which was the first project she was offered that didn’t pigeonhole her as a stereotype.
Ko bears some similarities to her character, Emma, who is the creative partner of the show’s titular star, played by Dave Burd in a fictionalized version of his life as struggling rapper Lil Dicky. Emma and Dave meet in their corporate careers before leaving the 9 to 5 world to chase their dreams: Dave as a rapper, and Emma as a graphic designer and director. “In tandem with Dave, somehow, the American dream came true for me too,” Ko says.
In addition to her television projects, Ko is also working on a film with her fiancé, Alan Yang, (with whom she previously collaborated on Tigertail for Netflix) about her personal history. “He knows my story best,” Ko said of writing the film together with Yang. “It’s similar to Dave, in that it’s loosely based on my life and the audience will be guessing what is real and what’s not.” Along with acting, Ko is also a beauty fanatic—and like any true beauty lover, she’s gone through several transformations. Below, she shares some of her favorite products, what working with Asian makeup artists taught her, and the one procedure she regrets.
Is there a beauty product that you can’t live without?
Lately, it’s been the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush…
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