- Birth nameShuiken Chan
- Sue Cann (birth name Shuiken Chan) was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland to a Filipino mother and Chinese father. Originally a qualified lawyer, Sue practised civil litigation in Edinburgh for over 5 years before becoming an actress. In 2010, she went to New York and enrolled at HB Studio for the 2 year acting programme, and studied with renowned acting teacher Michael Beckett.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sue Cann
- As a child, Sue enjoyed creating worlds in her mind, and willingly embraced and fully inhabited the imaginary world and life of a character. She loved to adopt different roles as a child. Whilst at school, she was on the badminton team, the gymnastics team, the student council, and did ballet. She was the school DJ at discos and was the DJ for the school radio during break time. You name it, Sue did it! She relished the experience of taking on different roles.
She enjoyed a good debate and was part of the debating team. This eventually led to her pursuing law and she became a civil litigation lawyer. It was inevitable that she was always going to enjoy the high energy tension involved in a court case. During her time as a lawyer, she joined an amateur dramatics theatre group and she soon discovered this: that litigators have a secret penchant and dramatic flair for acting! In the Play that she did, her on-stage father turned out to be a litigator who she had already crossed paths with in a court case as opposing Counsel. She soon got a taste for what it meant to act. She found that acting actually allowed her to utilise that part of herself that came naturally to her - to empathise strongly and step into another person's shoes. Her ability to effortlessly morph into different personas was being resuscitated. How refreshing it felt for her to put on a different outer coat and take it off again!
So with the realisation that this aspect of herself needed to be given fuller expression, she decided to pursue acting with full force. She moved to New York, and she studied acting at HB Studio. She came to realise that her time as a lawyer served to prepare her to understand what is really at the heart of a good scene, and it's this: conflict and the fight towards a position to be upheld. As in the courtroom where conflict abounds, so too does the life of a scene whether it be on stage or on film, and whether it be comedy or drama. To Sue, it is refreshing to be able to pursue a different set of objectives - different to her own - through a particular character's perspective. She can then really share with the audience the inner fragmentation and struggles that her character is going through.
She wants to encourage and uplift others in the area of comedy and faith-based projects. In the area of comedy, she wants to acknowledge the power of laughter with its ability to immediately lighten up even the darkest of clouds, providing comic relief. And she would also love to be involved in faith-based projects that reveal the preciousness of God.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Sue Cann
- She is Founder and Managing Director of My Jam Ltd, producing a range of jams made with no added sugar and unique blends.
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