Sumalee Montano

Sumalee Montano (born August 3, 1972) is an American actress and film producer. Originally, she worked as an investment bank analyst in New York City and Hong Kong before starting her acting career. For TV and film, Montano has appeared on Close to Home, Days of Our Lives, Nashville, Scandal, The Young and the Restless, This Is Us and Veep. As a voice actress, she has provided the voices of Pudding in Space Channel 5 and its sequel, Arcee on Transformers: Prime, Cali in the Skylanders series, Katana on Beware the Batman, the President in Saints Row IV, the female Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Yuna in Ghost of Tsushima. She has also guest starred as Nila on the web series Critical Role. She resides and works in Los Angeles but was born in Columbus, Ohio. Early life Montano is of Filipino and Thai descent and grew up mostly in the United States, but also spent a few years in Bangkok, Thailand. During her high school career, she began acting as an extracurricular activity. Her granduncle is Filipino actor and writer Severino Montano.