Ming-Na Wen
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An actress who can play period drama as convincingly as contemporary comedy, Ming-Na Wen was born in Macau, China, on November 20, 1963. When she was four, Ming-Na and her family pulled up stakes and moved to the United States, first settling in New York City and five years later relocating to Pittsburgh, PA, where her parents opened a restaurant, the Chinatown Inn (which they still operate today). In the third grade, Ming-Na played a bunny rabbit in a school play, and she was fascinated with the theater from that moment on; after graduating from high school, Ming-Na enrolled in Carnegie-Mellon University, where she graduated with honors and received a degree in theater. Ming-Na moved to New York to pursue an acting career, and in 1988, she was cast as Lien Hughes on As the World Turns, making her the first Asian-American to appear as a regular on a daytime drama. Ming-Na continued on the show until 1991, after which she continued to work in the theater and appeared in a pair of made-for-TV movies before she was cast in The Joy Luck Club, Wayne Wang's popular screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Amy Tan. Ming-Na next took a left turn into the action-drama Street Fighter, but in 1995 she became part of the ensemble cast of the popular and award-winning television series E.R., playing Dr. Deb Chen. At the same time, she was also cast in the sitcom The Single Guy as Trudy, the hipper-than-thou gallery owner. Despite her busy television schedule, Ming-Na continued to pursue film work, making a startling and sexy appearance in Mike Figgis' One Night Stand in 1997 while providing the voice for the leading character in the Disney-animated drama Mulan in 1998. Ming-Na lives with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles, and when not occupied with her busy schedule of film and television work, she helps with production and management for the Asian-American harmony group At Last.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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57% | Pearl |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron |
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— | 2019 |
100% | Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Breakdance Academy |
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— | 2017 |
3% | The Darkness |
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$10.8M | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | April Rain |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Super Cyclone |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | BoyBand (BoyBand: Breakin' Through in '82) |
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— | 2010 |
23% | Push |
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$31.8M | 2009 |
67% | Young & Restless in China |
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— | 2008 |
7% | Prom Night |
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$43.9M | 2008 |
0% | Mulan II |
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— | 2003 |
0% | Teddy Bears' Picnic |
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— | 2002 |
44% | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within |
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— | 2001 |
86% | Mulan |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | 12 Bucks |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Tempting Fate |
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— | 1998 |
32% | One Night Stand |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Star Quest |
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— | 1995 |
10% | Street Fighter |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Hong Kong '97 |
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— | 1994 |
86% | The Joy Luck Club |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Blind Spot |
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— | 1993 |
50% | Rain Without Thunder |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | ER |
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— | 1990 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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85% |
50 States of Fright
2020
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95% |
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013
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No Score Yet |
Hot Streets
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
Milo Murphy's Law
2016-2019
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No Score Yet |
Celebrity Family Feud
2015-2020
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94% |
Fresh Off the Boat
2015-2020
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No Score Yet |
Sofia the First
2013-2019
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No Score Yet |
Hollywood Game Night
2013
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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90% |
Nashville
2012-2018
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81% |
Eureka
2006-2012
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No Score Yet |
Special Agent Oso
2009-2012
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70% |
Stargate Universe
2009-2011
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65% |
Two and a Half Men
2003-2015
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86% |
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
2008-2011
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86% |
Boston Legal
2004-2008
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51% |
Private Practice
2007-2013
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No Score Yet |
The Batman
2004-2008
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62% |
Vanished
2006
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No Score Yet |
George Lopez
2002-2007
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No Score Yet |
Robot Chicken
2005
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30% |
Inconceivable
2005
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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No Score Yet |
Todd McFarlane's Spawn
1997-1999
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No Score Yet |
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
2021
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75% |
The Single Guy
1997
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Quotes from Ming-Na Wen's Characters
Mulan: | Shang! |
Shang: | Mulan? |
Mulan: | The Huns are alive! They're in the city! |
Shang: | You don't belong here, Mulan. Go home. |
Mulan: | Shang, I saw them in the mountains. You have to believe me! |
Shang: | Why should I? |
Mulan: | Why else would I come back? You said that you'd trust Ping. Why is Mulan any different? |
Mulan: | Okay. Any questions? |
Yao: | Does this dress make me look fat? |
Mulan: | Okay. Any questions? |
Yao: | Does this dress make me look fat? [he is slapped] Ow! |
Mulan: | Would you like to stay for dinner? |
Grandmother Fa: | Would you like to stay forever? |
Chun-Li: | How about an interview for my network. |
Col. Guile: | Yeah, sure. But only if you wear that dress. |
Shan-Yu: | "Boo" |
Shan-Yu: | Boo. |
Mulan: | "Would you like to stay for Dinner" |
Mulan: | Would you like to stay for dinner. |
Aki Ross: | This mission was well worth the lives of you and your men. |
Jane Proudfoot: | Men? |
Ryan Whittaker: | She thinks you're a man. |
Jane Proudfoot: | I think she's an idiot. |
Neil Fleming: | I know you're not a man. |
Jane Proudfoot: | I think YOU'RE an idiot too. |