Gemma Chan · 007 First Light

007 First Light Gemma Chan is one of the most-searched cast questions of the game, so here is the short answer up front: in 007 First Light, Gemma Chan plays Dr. Selina Tan, MI6's Head of Tactical Simulation — a brand-new character created for the game, not someone carried over from the Bond films. Anyone typing '007 First Light Gemma Chan' is looking for exactly this role.

Gemma Chan is one of the headline names in the 007 First Light cast. She is best known on screen as Astrid in Crazy Rich Asians and Sersi in Marvel's Eternals, so the 007 First Light Gemma Chan casting is a genuine marquee addition rather than a background voice credit. Selina herself is written as a 35-year-old academic with a background in psychology and game theory.

What makes the role notable is that 007 First Light marks the first time Gemma Chan has lent both her voice and her likeness to a video game. The in-game Dr. Selina Tan is modelled on her, which is why the 007 First Light Gemma Chan character reads so clearly as the actress the moment she appears.

A Worcester College, Oxford graduate, Gemma Chan rose to attention as the lead in Channel 4's science-fiction series Humans (2015–2018), then broke through on the big screen in 2018 as Astrid Leong in Crazy Rich Asians and Elizabeth Hardwick in Mary Queen of Scots.

She then joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe twice — as Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel (2019) and Sersi in Eternals (2021) — alongside roles in Don't Worry Darling (2022) and The Creator (2023), plus a voice role in Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). That is the 'where you've heard her' anchor most players bring to the 007 First Light cast.

007 First Light sits apart from all of that as her video-game debut, which is why the 007 First Light Gemma Chan casting drew attention beyond the usual gaming press. The official Dr. Selina Tan render shown here is her in-game likeness — the same face and presence she brings to film, rebuilt for IO Interactive's Bond origin story.

Inside the story, Dr. Selina Tan runs MI6's Tactical Simulation division — 'TacSim' — and she is one of the few genuinely new faces in 007 First Light's MI6 station. Once a rising star in academia in psychology and strategy, she later led advanced research into immersive technologies in the private sector before joining the service to spearhead its simulation programme.

Her job is to test and refine the skills of MI6's most promising recruits — the young James Bond among them. The official brief describes her as 'as formidable as she is innovative', and that combination of hard psychology and game theory is exactly what makes TacSim more than a tutorial in the fiction.

That places Selina alongside the rest of the MI6 brain trust — M, Q and Moneypenny — as one of the people shaping who Bond becomes. You can see the whole roster on the 007 First Light characters hub.