Biography

Christine Toy Johnson is a Tony honored, multiple-award winning actor, playwright, director and advocate for inclusion. On television, she is best known as "Sherry Yang" on Season 2 of the Netflix/Marvel series "Iron Fist". 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", "NCIS New Orleans", "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, national tours, Off-Broadway and in regional theaters across the U.S. including the Guthrie, Williamstown and The Huntington. As a playwright, librettist, lyricist, and screenwriter, 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 and is published by Smith and Kraus, Rowman and Littlefield, NoPassport Press, and Applause Books. Executive producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary "Transcending - the Wat Misaka Story" and Executive Producer and Screenwriter/Lyricist for the upcoming movie musical short, "Riding Out the Storm". Treasurer of the Dramatists Guild of America, co-founder of AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition).

- IMDb mini biography by: Christine Toy Johnson