Grace Park stars as Homeland Security agent Liz Carver in The Border. (CBC)

Vancouver's Grace Park has made a smooth transition from Battlestar Galactica to the CBC series The Border, bringing her hot image with her.

As the Cylon Sharon "Boomer" Valerii on Battlestar Galactica, the Korean-Canadian attracted a legion of fanboys.

Her character on The Border, U.S. homeland security agent Liz Carver, plays up that same sexuality and is already involved with one of the main characters.

But Park doesn't believe Carver's going to be jumping from bed to bed — that is, when she recovers from the bullet wounds she sustained at the end of the last season.

"Being a young woman, she has her own desires but I don't think it's very clear on what that is yet," Park told CBC's Q cultural affairs show. "Hot guy in front of her, why not, but I don't think she does that all the time."

Park, who was born in the U.S. but grew up in British Columbia, is conscious about introducing American inflections in Carver's voice, as the character is an American agent.

She's been thinking about Carver's background — as the daughter of a Methodist minister who was raised in a very male atmosphere with two brothers.

"Anyone who grew up like that, not necessarily you want to walk in your parents' shoes," she says, adding that Carver is a person in transition, trying to work out what she wants.

Park herself is ambivalent about her hot image, which was cemented in 2006 with some naughty, but not nude, pictures in Maxim magazine.

"I don't know if it's empowering. It's not necessarily uncomfortable per se. There's certain photos that I don't like having out there… not the Maxim ones," she said.

Park said the internet has made it impossible for an actress to do a nude scene, and then decide later in her career that she doesn't want to appear naked on screen. Every image survives somewhere, she said.

"There's was an acting teacher early in my career — what he said was 'Figure out a list of things you would just never want to do. When that opportunity comes and the job is dangling in your face, you won't regret later that you made that decision,'" she said.

Park said turned down a nude scene in Romeo Must Die, promising just to make it sexy, because she was thinking of what her parents would accept.

"That's how I got my mom to get on my side and be supportive of me that I did a kissing scene with another girl," she said.

Park said she felt like she fit right in on the set of The Border, although the series was in its second season before she showed up.

The show has a "slick, international" look, she said and proves that Canadian TV can woo international audiences.