Sumalee Montano

Personal context

Summary

Sumalee Montano is an American actor, voice performer, and producer known for roles in ER, Scandal, The Lost Symbol, Transformers: Prime, and numerous animated series and games. Through LinLay Productions and projects such as The Deal, she has focused on intergenerational and multicultural stories; she has said representation is important to her and that she became a producer to help shape which stories are told. For The Deal, she described centering women of color and portraying Filipino characters in a genre where people like her have historically been underrepresented as deliberate goals. Her public record shows a sustained interest in representation in her creative work, with no public partisan campaigning or broader activist affiliations on record.