Around the start of 2014, Singapore actress Jayley Woo came to the Her World office for a photo shoot and sat down for a quick-fire round of questions about her favourite things. The topic that got her most excited was SHINee. She went full fan girl over the Korean boy band and named the member she loved most on camera.
The questions ranged from her favourite designer to her favourite fried chicken. She named American actress Blake Lively as her style icon without having to think about it, and Selena Gomez also made her list of favourites. A longer feature on her ran in the February 2014 issue of Her World, which went on sale on 28 January 2014.
From New Face to Mediacorp
At the time, Woo had recently played a character also called Jayley in That Girl in Pinafore, a 2013 film. She started out as a blogger before entering The New Paper New Face competition in 2011 with her twin sister, Hayley Woo, who is also an actress. Both sisters began their media careers after the contest, and Hayley is the elder of the two.
Woo was born on 27 December 1991. She was a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2012, the year she made her acting debut in the local drama Jump!.
Leaving the full-time contract
Woo stayed with Mediacorp as a full-time artiste until 2018. In 2017 she played Qian Leqi in Have A Little Faith and Li Huixin in Dream Coder. In a Facebook post on 3 July 2018, the then 26-year-old announced that she was leaving her full-time contract. She wrote that she would still take on suitable acting roles, and she could still work with Mediacorp on ad hoc projects. She was also reported to be looking at possible projects in China.
Her work at the time included the Channel 8 drama Jalan Jalan, which was due to begin shooting the month after her announcement, and the Toggle series Glitch!, in which she played Chloe Ling. In a July 2018 interview she said she was serious about acting and hoped to attend classes for it.
After 2018
Woo played Zhang Weina in Jalan Jalan, which aired in 2019. The year before her announcement, the twins had shared the role of Cutie Chef in the 2017 production Chef: Bibimbap VS Chilli Crab.
In 2018 Woo also played Xiao Mi in Love At Cavenagh Bridge and Liang Wenjie in Life Less Ordinary. In 2021 she played Lin Nannian in the drama The Heartland Hero.