Sophia Bui

The exotic, daughter of a Texan military engineer father, Timothy, and Thoan a real estate Developer. Her ancestry includes Scottish, Native American, Vietnamese/French, and Swedish. Sophia grew-up in the foothills of Pasadena, California Adjacent to the Rose Bowl. She began her study of the performing arts in her nascent childhood, with Ballet classes at age five at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Downtown, Los Angeles. She continued her study of the performing arts until she graduated with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

She trained in classical theatre with Howard Fine, Anthony Meindl, and improvisation at UCLA. Initially, she began her career by appearing in a magazine editorials for Elle Magazine and Cosmopolitan. Subsequently, she parlayed her talent into 71 national television commercials, in campaigns for Fortune 500 companies such as Apple iPhone and the Venetian Hotel, with two-time, Oscar-winning, director Alejandro Inarritu and Lux Shampoo starring Scarlett Johansson. Her current ad campaign was shot by Mark Jenkinson for the all-new GR86 Toyota. Additionally, she enjoyed shooting a segment with Michael J. Fox for his former pilot with director Will Gluck. The footage is probably stashed in a secret vault at NBC Universal.

She made her feature film debut with Home Again, a romantic comedy film, starring Reese Witherspoon; directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer. Also, in Will Smith’s latest Oscar-winning film and 20 years in the making is, “King Richard.” She had the pleasure of shooting her Very first, ten episode, Season One of the 1970’s LA feminist television series for HBO Max , “Minx” as a Playboy playmate. Season One and Two, are now streaming on the STARZ platform. Currently, she and her late beau, Harrison Wagner can be seen on Netflix, in a freshly premiered series and must-see, “BEEF” starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun. BEEF is the No. 1 US series streaming on Netflix, and critics are calling it one of the best shows of 2023, baby. Netflix has submitted, “Beef” as an anthology series up for Emmy’s.

Has completed one semester as a Graduate student in the History Department at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Harrison Hale Wagner, the love of her life, passed away in a parking lot in North Hollywood on June 6, 2022.

She resides a stone’s throw from the ocean, in Venice Beach, California.