Biography
She began her career as a child model at the age of four, later gaining her first major role in 1988 starring alongside Liam Neeson and Diane Keaton in The Good Mother. She is an accomplished gymnast and graduated from the Etobicoke School of the Arts as a Music Theatre Major. She is currently a student at the University of Toronto, studying both drama and history.
Asia has starred in numerous made-for-TV movies and popular television shows, but she is probably best known for playing the roles of Jewel Staite's best friend Christine Harrison in the TV series Flash Forward, Sally in The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon and Delia York, granddaughter of Satan, in Omen IV: The Awakening. She has recently been recording for both radio and cartoons, along with appearing a number of made-for-TV movies and short films including I Am an Apartment Building which won Best Canadian short at the Edmonton Short Film Festival.
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