Patricia Zhou

Patricia Zhou plays Nikki Lau on the Shadow Unit TV show. 

Patricia Zhou turned up, along with half of her shift, to be an extra in the infamous extended episode of Delta entitled "Boom Bang-a Bang". This episode, in which several well loved and longstanding characters were killed, centred on an bomb planted in the police station cells to remove evidence of prisoner mistreatment. (Rumours of a mass firing of actors as a result of the "Pickle Incident" remain unsubstantiated.)

Zhou stated in an interview with Q magazine that she was listed to have one line, "What was that?", before dying in the explosion. However, she so impressed the producers when she was asked to read regular cast member Chrissie Hynde's lines during a blocking scene, that they cast her in a recurring role as local medium Joyce Chen.

Zhou appeared in twelve Delta episodes before taking up her role in Shadow Unit. Her other credits include a music video for Scottish band Franz Ferdinand and a "blink and you miss her" part in War of the Worlds.