Also ranks #2 on 15 Actors Who Were Foreign Stars Before Their Hollywood Break Also ranks #6 on The All-Time Greatest Martial Arts Actors 3 Lucy Liu Age: 56 777 votes Lucy Liu, an American actress of Chinese descent, rose to prominence with her role as Ling Woo on the hit TV series...
The legendary star of Hong Kong action films was honored with the Best Actress Academy Award for her role in The Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Yeoh also made history as the first Southeast Asian woman to win the Best Actress Oscar. A moment that, frankly, should not ...
But the Bay Area native, whose popular blogAngry Asian Manandpodcasts“They Call Us Bruce” and “All the Asians on Star Trek” explore AAPI representation in pop culture, noted that delivering nuance can be complicated when you’re working within a genre — such as ...
who worked at the front desk for a local shipping company. i was even further relieved to find that she didn’t have an exaggerated accent—on the contrary, leah remini, the voice actress who played her, did an excellent job of making her sound slightly bored and disaffected, delivering zi...
Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, wanted to play the main character O-Lan in the 1937 film adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s novel “The Good Earth.” Instead, MGM passed her over for German actress Luise Rainer, telling Wong to test instead for the role of a scheming...
Artists at Play produces shows by Asian American playwrights featuring mostly Asian American casts. The group began almost by accident, according to director Peter J. Kuo. He and actress Julia Cho had worked together on a play a few years back, enjoyed the collaboration and wanted to work toge...
While the national controversy is a plus for the screen possibilities, the agent adds that one prohibiting factor is the marketability of an Asian-American lead actress. Be the 1st to Comment Posted inNews| Last Godfather w/ Harvey Keitel and D-War Director gets U.S. release ...
just a year after her critically acclaimed turn in Chen Kaige’sFarewell My Concubine, and the trio is rounded off with Sharla Cheung Man, who is probably the only actress who can claim to feature in more new wave wuxia movies than Lin, even if she wasn’t always playing the star. ...
Co-star Tung Wa is a little less vicious than what I’m used to seeing him as. Though he can hold his own, you won’t see him taking on a room full of men, and outdoing them with no problem (ie12 Gold Medallions). Most of the bloody rampage lies in the hands of Li Ching’...
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