Chantal Thuy

Chantal Thuy is a Canadian American actress who made her Broadway debut in 2019 in Tracy Letts' play Linda Vista, produced by Second Stage Theater at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Thuy is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees whose parents fled the Vietnam War by boat before eventually settling in Quebec. Her father worked as an engineer at IBM. Thuy speaks English, French, and Vietnamese fluently and received her formal acting training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City.

Thuy first performed in Linda Vista at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in February 2019, where she co-starred in the production before reprising her role on Broadway later that year. Her additional theater work includes Pan Asian Repertory Theater's We Are, productions at the Harold Clurman Lab Theatre where she played Nina in The Seagull and Perdita in The Winter's Tale, and the role of Marie Louise-Yvette L'Amour in The Lady Was Gentleman with the Broads' Word Ensemble in Los Angeles. She has also participated in reading series with the Ma-Yi Lab Theatre, African American Playwrights Exchange, and Teesri Duniya Theatre.

On television, Thuy is best known for portraying the DC Comics character Grace Choi on the CW Network series Black Lightning, which premiered in 2018 and ran for four seasons. She was promoted to series regular on the show in October 2020. Her other television appearances include Madam Secretary, Pretty Little Liars, and Matador. Beginning in 2021, she joined the cast of the CBS action-crime drama Magnum P.I., playing detective Lia Kaleo. In 2024, Thuy received the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Drama Film at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards for her work in the film Ru.

In 2018, Thuy optioned Caroline Vu's novel That Summer in Provincetown, a story spanning three generations of Vietnamese Canadians, with the intention of adapting it into a screenplay. Raised Catholic, she currently practices Buddhism under a Tibetan Buddhist teacher. In 2024, she announced that she had become an American citizen.