Pisay Pao played Jamie Patterson, the heavily pregnant wife of Gunnery Sergeant Hugh Patterson (Emerson Brooks). The character appeared in "NCIS: Los Angeles" Season 7 episode 12 titled "Core Values," which aired on Jan. 4.
In in "NCIS: Los Angeles" Season 7 episode 12, Kensi Blye (Daniela Ruah) and Marty Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) went undercover at a decommissioned nuclear power plant. In that place, radiation poisoned a Gunnery Sergeant moonlighting as a security guard.
Due to radiation exposure of all things, Gunnery Sergeant Hugh Patterson passed out. However, nobody knew he got sick so the case was assigned to the nearby NCIS.
Gunnery Sergeant Hugh Patterson had been taken to the hospital after he had passed out. It was discovered that there was radiation poisoning and his health had been in danger for months.
If Gunnery Sergeant Hugh Patterson were to live, he would need someone to donate stem cells as the poisoning apparently had caused a system shutdown. While he was lying in decline at the hospital, nobody could ask him questions.
Thus, they had to rely on the information provided to them by Jamie Patterson, who had been the one who told Kensi Blye and Marty Deeks about Gunnery Sergeant Hugh Patterson moonlighting on the side. Pao's character had no idea that her husband did not want her to worry so he had been lying to her.
This is why Jamie Patterson was partly right when she had told Kensi Blye and Marty Deeks that her husband took a second job in construction. The truth is that her husband was working security at Santa Flora Nuclear Power Plant.
Before playing Jamie Patterson in "NCIS: Los Angeles" Season 7 episode 12, Pao played Cassandra in the first and second seasons of the horror drama series "Z Nation." Among her co-stars were Kellita Smith, Keith Allan, Russell Hodgkinson, Nat Zang and Anastasia Baranova, among others.
Born in a refugee camp in Thailand, Pao moved to Seattle, Washington when she was two years old with her parents escaping the civil war in Cambodia. The first film she starred in was the 2005 comedy "Simply FOBulous," which also starred her fellow Asian actors Kathie Pham, Chau Luu and Steven Liu, among others.
