Bloodletting

MING

 

Ming is focused and ambitious and won’t let anything, not even her true love Fitz, get in the way of reaching her goals.  Ming’s strict Chinese upbringing meant her clandestine relationship with Fitz during university was doomed from the outset.  Her compromise was settling for the more acceptable Chen.  Their marriage works as a partnership, but lacks the fire and compatibility she once had with Fitz.  She has now convinced herself a baby will solve the problems in their empty marriage.   Working as an obstetrician only inflates her longing for her own child, but a miscarriage and the discovery that she and Chen have incompatible blood types leads her to ask Fitz to be the sperm donor.   Though all three know there’s more to it than meets the eye.

 

MAYKO NGUYEN

 

Mayko Nguyen will play the role of ‘Ming’, a painfully private doctor, in Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures based on the award-winning book by Vincent Lam. The eight part original series will air on HBO Canada.

 

Mayko Nyguyen is best known for her role as “Goth Girl” in the Showcase series Rent-a-Goalie and for four seasons played “Mayko Tran” (for which she received a Gemini nomination) on the internationally successful series ReGenesis, which aired on The Movie Network, Movie Central and Showcase.  Mayko also appeared on CBC’s Being Erica, in the PAX TV Sci-Fi Mysterious Ways; the Simon Fraser University film Sophisticated Boom Boom; the Vancouver Film School’s Great Expectation; and a role in the Lifetime series Wild Card, starring Joely Fisher. Mayko also landed the starring role in the Much Music movie Going the Distance and played ‘Courtnay’ in the feature film, The Last New Year.

 

Mayko Nguyen grew up in Vancouver where she pursued her love for acting at Eric Humber Secondary. There she performed in many of her school’s theatrical productions; she played ‘Addaperle’ in The Wiz, ‘Starveling’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the lead role in Family Portrait and ‘Dora Tomb’ in Tomb with a View.

 

Mayko continued to develop her passion for acting at the University of British Columbia in the production Over the Moon and The Bacchae. While attending UBC Nguyen started to study with Gemini award-winning actor Jeff Seymour, who cast her as an “Actor” in An Evening of Scenes he was directing. She continues to take Scene Study classes with Jeff in Toronto.

 

To maintain a balanced life, when Mayko is not performing, she practices yoga, fitness, and Capoeira, a Brazilian form of martial arts performed outside.

 

Mayko’s family remains in Vancouver, but she now calls Toronto home.