Chloe Bennet
Chloe Bennet is an actor, born 1992.
Bennet, born Chloe Wang in Chicago in 1992, arrived on television as a singer with a small part on Nashville, then landed the job that took seven years of her life: Daisy Johnson, alias Skye, alias Quake, on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from 2013 to 2020.
That show asked something unusual of her. Daisy begins as a hacker with no powers and no standing, and the series spends its whole run rebuilding her into the character the comics call Quake, so Bennet had to play a person changing shape without ever breaking continuity with who she was in the pilot. She managed it, and she carried the tonal swings too, since the show moved from spy procedural to space opera and back with very little warning.
The Marvel work followed her out of the series: she voiced Quake across the Marvel Rising films and the Slingshot shorts, a rare case of an actor keeping ownership of a character in animation as well as live action.
Away from that, the best of her is voice work. She is Yi in Abominable (2019) and again in Abominable and the Invisible City, playing a girl who works out her grief on a violin, and it is a warmer performance than the superhero job ever allowed. The live-action credits since have been scattered: Robyn on DAVE, Karen in Valley Girl, Detective Lana Lee in Interior Chinatown.
Movies (8)
TV (8)
Where to start with Chloe Bennet
Abominable is the honest first stop, especially if superhero television is not your thing. It is the one performance where she is playing feeling rather than plot, and the film is beautiful enough to justify itself.
Then take Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. seriously, because it rewards patience: the early stretch is a wobbly procedural, and almost everything good after that belongs to Daisy. For the animated continuation of the character, Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot carry it on, and Abominable and the Invisible City extends the better job.
For the non-Marvel Bennet, Interior Chinatown is the most interesting recent thing on the list and DAVE shows a comic register the drama never asked for. Nashville is where it started, and it is a footnote.