Chase Sui Wonders
Birthdate: May 21, 1996 (30 Years Old)
Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Chase Sui Wonders is a rising young actor who began her career in her teens as the co-director/co-writer/co-producer/cinematographer/lead of her $50,000-budgeted debut feature made with many family members, A Trivial Exclusion (2009), with Jackson Sui, Jeanne Sui Wonders and Olivia Sui, followed by her second feature as co-director/co-writer/co-producer/cinematographer/lead of the drama, Last Migration (2015), with Olivia Sui and Anna Sui.
Wonders was cast in a supporting role in director/co-writer Adam Egypt Mortimer’s psychological horror movie, Daniel Isn’t Real (2019), co-produced by Elijah Wood, and co-starring Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane, and Mary Stuart Masterson, premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival and released by Samuel Goldwyn Films to poor box office.
Wonders landed a supporting role with director/writer/producer Sofia Coppola for her comedy-drama, On the Rocks (2020), starring Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, and Marlon Wayans, premiering at the New York Film Festival and released theatrically by A24 to a $1 million gross. Wonders co-starred in the well-received black comedy, Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), co-starring Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace and Pete Davidson under Halina Reijn’s direction, premiering at the South by Southwest Film Festival, followed by theatrical release via A24 (U.S.)/Stage 6 Films (international) to a $14 million return.
Chase Sui Wonders was cast by director/writer Neil LaBute for his poorly received thriller, Out of the Blue (2022), starring Diane Kruger, Ray Nicholson and Hank Azaria, and released by Quiver Distribution, and then Wonders performed a voice role in director/writer Celine Song’s romantic Korean drama, Past Lives (2023), co-produced by CJ ENM (South Korea)/Killer Films and 2 AM (U.S.), and co-starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival before a very successful release (just under $43 million return on $12 million costs) by A24 and CJ ENM in South Korea, leading to two Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
Wonders joined the cast of director/co-writer Jack Begert’s indie comedy-drama, Little Death (2024), with lead producer Darren Aronofsky and co-starring David Schwimmer, Gaby Hoffmann, Dominic Fike, Talia Ryder, and Jena Malone, and premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award.
Wonders co-starred in the horror-slasher reboot from director/co-writer Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and producer Neal H. Moritz, I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), with Madelyn Cline, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pigeon, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Jennifer Love Hewitt, and released wide via Sony Pictures Releasing. Wonders was cast by indie filmmaker Gregg Araki for the ensemble of his erotic thriller, I Want Your Sex (date to be announced), co-starring Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Charl XCX, Daveed Diggs, Mason Gooding, Johnny Knoxville, Margaret Cho, and Roxane Mesquida, and produced by Black Bear Pictures.
Personal life
Chase Sui Wonders was born and raised in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by her parents, including her father Bob Sui (Chief Financial Officer of Anna Sui fashion brand), who is of Chinese descent. Wonders’ siblings are Isabelle Sui, Clark Sui Wonders, and Grant Sui. Wonders attended and graduated from Cranbrook Kingswood Academy, and then attended Harvard University, where she majored in Film Studies and Film Production, graduating magna cum laude. Wonders was in a relationship with actor Charles Melton in 2022, followed by a nine-month relationship with actor/comic Pete Davidson, which ended in August 2023. Wonders then dated actor Joe Keery. Wonders’ height is 5’ 5”.
Chase Sui Wonders Movies
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- 2025 |
I Know What You Did Last Summer
asAva Brooks
I Know What You Did Last Summer
A group of friends are terrorised by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past.
- 2022 |
Out of the Blue
After spending time in prison following an assault charge, Connor Bates now works in a library and spends his free time running, swimming, and trying to piece his world back together. When he meets Marilyn Chambers, the wife of a wealthy businessman, they collide into an intense physical and emotional relationship that quickly escalates into idle talk about her husband’s murder.
- 2022 |
Bodies Bodies Bodies
When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly.
Facts About Chase Sui Wonders
Famous Relatives: Chase Sui Wonders’s aunt is famed American fashion designer Anna Sui, with whom Wonders collaborated on a brand campaign.
Lampoon Writer: Wonders, while attending Harvard, wrote for The Harvard Lampoon humor magazine.
