Galactica's Best. Grace Park (born March 14, 1974) is an American-born Canadian actress of Korean descent. She is best known as Sharon Valerii (and the various other iterations of Number Eight, a humanoid Cylon) on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont. She most recently has had co-starring roles in the A&E series The Cleaner and the CBC series The Border.