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Ke Huy Quan, also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnamese-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. Quan played Short Round in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) and Data in "The Goonies" (1985). In 1990 and 1991, he co-starred as Jasper Kwong in the sitcom "Head of the Class" over two seasons. Quan stopped acting due to a lack of opportunity in the late 1990s, when he received his film degree from USC School of Cinematic Arts. He went on to work as a stunt coordinator and assistant director. He returned to acting as Waymond Wang in the film "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (2022), a role for which he received critical acclaim, and which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Aleks Le was born on 12 March 1999 in Vietnam. He is an actor, known for Ore dake Level Up na Ken (2024), Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba, le film : Le Train de l'Infini (2020) and Street Fighter 6 (2023).

Veronica Ngo was born on 26 February 1979 in Tra Vinh, Vietnam. She is an actress and producer, known for The Creator (2023), The Old Guard (2020) and Da 5 Bloods: Frères de sang (2020).

Lana Therese Condor is a Vietnamese-born American actress. She made her film debut in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), portraying Jubilation Lee / Jubilee. Condor was born on May 11, 1997 in Can Tho, Vietnam and was adopted by her American parents, Mary Carol (Haubold) and journalist Robert Condor, as an infant. Her non-biological brother, Arthur Robert, was adopted along with her.

Condor spent her early years in Chicago, Illinois. By seven years old, her family had settled in Whidbey Island, Washington, where Condor took her first dance class. She went on to dance at the Rock School of Dance Education and the Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle. At 11 years old, Condor and her family moved to New York City, where she continued her classical ballet training, dancing at multiple prestigious academies including the Joffrey School of Classical Ballet, the Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

While living in New York, Condor's parents encouraged her to try acting when they saw a natural ability in their daughter. She took her first acting class during her freshman year at the Professional Performing Arts School, and went on to study for a summer at the New York Film Academy. Condor and her family then moved to Los Angeles, California for her sophomore year of high school, where she auditioned and landed a coveted spot in the Los Angeles Ballet. She joined the theatre department at her all-girls Catholic school, the Notre Dame Academy, and also studied at the Yale Summer Conservatory for Actors. During her senior year, she went out on her first handful of auditions and landed her role in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016).

Having been bitten by the acting bug when she was just 11 years old, Christine Nguyen now makes her home in Los Angeles, California, where she works as an actress and model. Her first roles were in local school and theatre plays in her hometown of Houston, Texas. From there, Christine went on to train at the Los Angeles branch of the Australian Institute of Dramatic Arts. Christine has appeared in dozens of promos, infomercials, shorts, webisodes, episodics, commercials and features which have aired on CBS, NBC, FOX, Comedy Central, SPIKE, HBO, G4, Discovery, Showtime and theaters worldwide. Beyond acting, Christine is also a voiceover artist, host, spokesmodel, model and master of improv. Her full resume and any work-related questions may be obtained by sending an inquiry on the CONTACT page of her personal website and her representative will get back to you.

After leaving Vietnam with his family in 1975 Dustin Tri Nguyen (pronounced "Gwen") went on to establish himself as one of Hollywood's premiere Asian-American actors, having starred on the hit TV shows "21 Jump Street," "Seaquest DSV," "VIP," He went on to star in the films THE REBEL and THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS 2. In 2005 Dustin won the much sought after role in the Australian based critically acclaimed film LITTLE FISH starring opposite Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett. In the film Dustin plays 'Jonny,' Blanchett's love interest in a story that revolves around her 'Tracy,' an ex-heroin-addict trying to rebuild her life. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to become the number-one film in Australia. Along the way, it collected 5 Australian Film Institute Awards and 3 Film Critics' Awards. LITTLE FISH then opened in New York to rave reviews. Critics took note of Dustin's performance and transformation into a leading man among the A-list cast. This very performance earned him the 2007 Asian Excellence Award for Best Supporting Actor in a feature film.

Dustin can be seen starring in and directing Justin Lin's series "Warrior" on Cinemax. The Show, based on the writings of Bruce Lee and set in the late 1870s San Francisco during the Tong Wars in Chinatown. In the Series he plays the "Big Bad" Zing. Dustin is especially looking forward to season 2 where he has directed the sixth episode of the show. This past season also saw Dustin guest starring on the NBC hit Drama "This Is Us."

In more recent years, Dustin has transitioned to directing and producing films under his Vietnam-based Dreamscape DBS; the production company he shares with his producer wife, Bebe Pham. 2015 was a particularly good year for Dustin as his second directorial effort, JACKPOT, was chosen to represent Vietnam for Best Foreign Language Films at the 2016 Oscars. The film also was one of the surprise hits with Vietnamese audiences that year as it was inspired by the true events of a poor countryside lottery peddler who returned the winning lottery ticket to its rightful owner. By summer of 2016, JACKPOT collected 3 Golden Kite Awards (Vietnam's highest cinematic award) for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Screenplay, in addition to People's Choice Award for the Best Film of 2015.

In 2014, Dustin collaborated as an actor in a Vietnamese adaptation of Dostoyevsky's A GENTLE CREATURE. This film, GENTLE, earned him a Leonardo da Vinci Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 2015 Milan International Film Festival. In the same year, Dustin starred in Universal Pictures' sequel to THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS.

In 2013, Dustin made his directorial debut with a script he wrote which was his personal homage to Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, called ONCE UPON A TIME IN VIETNAM - the first fantasy-martial-arts-drama in Vietnam. The film was picked up by Lionsgate for North America distribution, as well as being distributed in England, Germany, Italy, France, Australia and South America.

In 2011, Dustin was awarded Best Actor at the Vietnamese International Film Festival for his performance as an abusive and bitter single father raising two children in the Mekong Delta in FLOATING LIVES.

In 2009, Dustin was awarded the Vietnamese Golden Lotus Award (Vietnam's Highest Film Award) for Best Actor in the motion picture THE LEGEND IS ALIVE, as well as the Golden Kite Award (Vietnam's Cinema Association) for the very same role. He was also awarded the Golden Rooster (China's most prestigious film award) for Favorite International Actor for this very role. Dustin played Long, a mentally challenged man, whose only wish is to bring his recently deceased mother's ashes to America. Along his journey, Long encounters and reluctantly involves himself with a young girl who has been sold to human traffickers.

In 2008, Dustin starred in Justin Lin's film FINISHING THE GAME, which had premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2006, Dustin starred in his first villain role in the Vietnamese blockbuster THE REBEL, a French-Vietnamese 1920's period action-drama. It marked his first return to Vietnam in 32 years.

Dustin's martial arts expertise was fully showcased in 2000 when he starred in a Levi's Jeans' European "Hero" campaign, which expanded upon his ever-growing international profile. The campaign was uniquely groundbreaking in that it was the first time Levi's had ever used an Asian star in their awarded winning campaigns. For Dustin, it offered the first opportunity to apply his love for the martial arts along with his dramatic training as he collaborated with director Jonathan Glazer (UNDER THE SKIN, SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) on the fight choreography.

Dustin currently lives in Vietnam with his wife, Bebe Pham, and their three children.

Thuy Trang was born on December 14th of 1973 in Saigon, Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975 to Communist forces, her father who had fought in the Vietnam War, traveled to the United States to seek political asylum. However, his entire family, unable to follow, were left behind.

In 1979, Thuy and her family boarded a cargo ship with other refugees to travel to the United States. However, first they sailed to a detention camp in Hong Kong.

The family was finally reunited in California in 1980.

Thuy graduated from Banning High School and earned a scholarship to study civil engineering at UC Irvine.

After her father died from cancer In 1992, Thuy got interested in acting and, in 1993, got her first big break when she landed the role of Trini Kwan on the hit TV series Power Rangers (1993). In 1994, Thuy left the show to pursue other projects.

After appearing in a video documentary called the Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities (1995), as an interviewee, and a cameo as a manicurist in Agent zéro zéro (1996), Thuy got her next large role as Kali in The Crow: La Cité des anges (1996), the sequel to The Crow (1994).

Tragically, on September 3rd 2001, Thuy was a passenger in a car traveling on the I-5, that lost control. She suffered fatal injuries.

She leaves behind only a small body of work but, through them, she made an impact on many.

Thuy Trang will be missed by many.

Hélène Patarot was born in 1954 in Hai Phong, Vietnam. She is an actress, known for Paris, je t'aime (2006), Le mahâbhârata (1989) and Little Wenzhou (2009). She has been married to Ciarán Hinds since 1987. They have one child.

Keong Sim was born in Vietnam. He is an actor and writer, known for Dead to Me (2019), Glee (2009) and Une ode américaine (2020).

Tsui Hark recently became the fourth Chinese film director to join the board of judges for the 57th Cannes Film Festival in the feature films category this year.

An internationally acclaimed visionary director, Tsui started making experimental movies with 8mm film when he was only 13. After graduating from the University of Texas in Austin, majoring in film, he returned to Hong Kong in 1977 and landed a job working in television. In 1979 he directed his film debut, Butterfly Murders (1979). It raised a lot of attention, and was hailed by many as the start of a new wave in Hong Kong cinema. After making numerous critically and successful films, he co-founded his own production house, Film Workshop, with his wife, Nansun Shi, in 1984. Although the company was intended to be contemporary, it went on to become one of the most successful production companies in Hong Kong, having produced such classics of Hong Kong cinema as _Sinnui yauwan (1987)_ and Le syndicat du crime (1986), which was directed by John Woo and starred the amazing Chow Yun-Fat.

Considered the master of kung-fu action films, Tsui Hark's Swordsman (1990), _Xiao ao jiang hu zhi dong fang bu bai (1991)_, L'auberge du dragon (1992) and Il était une fois en Chine (1991) created a new era and standard for the "wuxia" genre that has now become a trend in filmmaking.

Amelia Edwards was born on 14 February 1974 in Vietnam. She is an actress and production manager, known for Un mariage de princesse (2004), American 70's - Ces années-là (2000) and Musik (2010).

Anh Hung Tran was born on 23 December 1962 in Da Nang, Vietnam. He is a director and writer, known for L'Odeur de la papaye verte (1993), La passion de Dodin Bouffant (2023) and La ballade de l'impossible (2010). He is married to Nu Yên-Khê Tran.

James Nguyen is director & creator of the successful film franchise, BIRDEMIC. Currently, he is directing SEA RISING - Mavericks. James has been in the movie business for over 20 years. His films are influenced by Hitchcock's cinema & they are often about the harms of climate change (BIRDEMIC - Shock & Terror, BIRDEMIC 2 - The Resurrection, BIRDEMIC 3 - Sea Eagle, Climate Fix, Cosmic Beauty, Miracle Tree, The Omens).

Veteran Vietnamese born actress Kieu Chinh is best known to moviegoers for her role as Suyuan Woo in the 1991 film "The Joy Luck Club". She also made a notable guest appearance on the hit CBS-TV series "M*A*S*H" as Kyung Soon, an aristocratic South Korean socialite whom Hawkeye begins to fall in love with (which is reciprocated) after he's enlisted by Colonel Potter to attend to her sick mother in the episode "In Love and War" (directed by Alan Alda) in the series' sixth season.

In the 1960s, in addition to Vietnamese films, she also appeared in several US productions including "A Yank in Viet-Nam" (1964) and "Operation C.I.A."' (1965), the latter opposite Burt Reynolds. Kieu Chinh also produced a war epic "Nguoi Tình Khong Chan Dung" (Warrior, Who Are You) (1971), which later would be remastered and shown in the U.S. at the 2003 Vietnamese International Film Festival.

In 1975, while Kieu Chinh was on the set in Singapore, communist North Vietnamese overran Saigon. Kieu Chinh left for the U.S. where she resumed her acting career in a 1977 episode of M*A*S*H "In Love and War", written by Alan Alda and loosely based on her life story.

Kieu Chinh subsequently acted in feature films as well as TV-movies including The Children of An Lac", "Hamburger Hill" (1987), "Riot" (1997), "Catfish in Black Bean Sauce" (1999), "Face" (2002), "Journey From The Fall" (2005), and the FOX-TV series "21" (2008).

From 1989 to 1991, she had a recurring role as Trieu Au on the ABC-TV Vietnam War drama series "China Beach".

For over a decade, Chinh has been a lecturer of the Greater Talent Network in New York. She has been invited to give keynote addresses at Pfizer, Kellogg, Cornell University and University of San Diego. Kieu is also active in philanthropic work. Together with journalist Terry Anderson, she co-founded the Vietnam Children's Fund, which has built schools in Vietnam attended by more than 25,000 students annually. Kieu Chinh and Anderson continue to serve as the Fund's co-chair.

Cung Le made his first appearance on the professional M.M.A. stage in 2006, and shortly after won the Strikeforce Middleweight Championship in 2008, setting high standards through his powerful kicks, skillful strikes, and well-timed take-downs. This U.S.-Viet Namese champion, actor, producer and action director is a household name in many parts of East Asia and is equally adored in Hollywood. He has starred in many major movies such as 'Puncture Wounds', 'Dragon Eyes', 'The Man With the Iron Fists', 'Pandorum' and Oscar-nominated 'The Grandmaster'. Born in Saigon, Viet Nam and arrived in the U.S. at three years old, this world-class fighter has graced the covers of many major martial arts publications such as Inside Kung Fu, Black Belt, Martial Arts Illustrated; and has made headlines and appearances in numerous main-stream outlets all over the world. Cung Le's latest high-profile project was coaching and mentoring fighters on the reality T.V. show: 'The Ultimate Fighter: China' and preparing them for the March 1st match in Macao where the winner earned a six-figure U.F.C. contract. This is the dream title that will catapult any fighter's status into stardom. Typically, the role of mentor and coach is reserved for the president of U.F.C. - Dana White. For the first time, he has appointed someone else - Cung Le - to take his position this season. This speaks volumes about Cung Le's martial arts skill and his ability to attract a world audience. Behind the scenes, Cung Le is an extremely down-to-earth, warm and fun-loving person with a positive view on life. He enjoys spending quality time and on vacation with his wife, taking his sons out to celebrate their academic and mixed martial arts successes at Five Guys Burgers, playing with his two dogs, embracing injuries with a light-hearted attitude, and training daily to stay in shape. He has been promoting his own amateur mixed martial arts event, Born to Fight, since 2001. He also attends martial arts events, works on various publicity projects, contributes positively to society through his "Train for a Cause with Cung Le" events, and stays true to himself by always expressing his candid points of view.

Marie-France first came to the fore as an actress of the Nouvelle Vague movement in the 1960's. She had spent her early childhood in French Indochina, where her father was employed as colonial governor, but the family moved to Paris when she was twelve. Just five years later, she was spotted by a casting director, who had been tasked by François Truffaut to discover a 'fresh and cheerful' new face for his 32-minute film Antoine et Colette (1962). While finding her feet in the acting profession, Marie-France attended Paris University, eventually attaining degrees in law and political science. By the time, Truffaut cast her again as Colette in the second of two sequels, L'amour en fuite (1979), she was involved in the writing process of the screenplay herself. Prior to that, she had also co-written the script for Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974), in which she starred herself as an enigmatic governess.

In her private life, she held strong socio/political convictions, outspoken on women's rights and legal abortion, and taking part in student demonstrations in Paris in 1968. On screen, she displayed poise, style and femininity in abundance. She was often well cast as a seductive temptress or as women of mysterious background. She was excellent as Agathe in Sérail (1976), and in the part that won her the prestigious Cesar and led to her brief sojourn in Hollywood as Karine in Cousin cousine (1975). Her experience in America did not prove a happy one, though she lent an undeniable touch of glamour to her roles as high fashion designers in the otherwise mediocre miniseries Scrupules (1980) and (in the title role) of Chanel Solitaire (1981). More at home in the cinema of her native France, she had a few more worthy roles come her way, notably as Madame Verdurin in Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (1999). She also directed two films, the first of which, Le bal du gouverneur (1990), was based on her own novel about childhood experiences in New Caledonia.

Marie-France died tragically as the result of accidental drowning at her villa at Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, near Toulon, at the age of 66.

Khoi Dao was born on 3 September 1999 in Vietnam. He is an actor, known for Je veux manger ton pancréas (2018), March Comes in Like a Lion (2016) and Nowhere Man (2019).

Steven Quoc Vo is a Vietnamese-American actor, voice actor, social media personality and singer. He has been creating social media content and videos since 2021 that have gained over 100M views across his multiple platforms like TikTok, Instagram & YouTube. He is best known for his voice acting cover of Mirage from Transformers: Rise of the Beasts that has gained over 70M views on YouTube.

Pham was born in 1974 in Saigon, but moved to France with her parents a year later.

Her big break came in 1992 when she starred in the Oscar-winning film Indochine (1992) playing the adopted child of a French woman in French-ruled Vietnam.

Pham studied commerce in university and worked as a senior marketing manager after graduation. She has worked in New York, Singapore and Vietnam and now resides in London.

She has also taken an acting course at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.

Chi Muoi Lo is Chinese, born in Phan Rang, Vietnam. A classically trained, and veteran actor. At the age of 10, Chi discovered his love for acting. By the ninth grade, Chi knew that acting was in his blood, and he entered the High School for the Creative and Performing Arts as a drama major. At Temple University, he was a theater major but grew restless after one year and decided to accept a full scholarship from San Francisco's esteemed American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). It was unprecedented for an eighteen-year-old to be accepted to the Master's program there. By the age of 20, Chi had studied with 64 acting teachers.

Chi Muoi Lo is the owner of the production company and the CEO of the talent management company Allen Edelman Management.

Chi's debut as an actor-writer-director with the feature film Catfish In Black Bean Sauce was met with great success and made Variety's "Top 50 of 2001 Limited-Release Winner At The Box Office." His next project is a television series called Life in Threes, inspired by a true story, written to span 7 seasons with 13 episodes each season. He has also written a half-hour comedy TV pilot, Catfish In Black Bean Sauce inspired by the feature film of the same name.

As an actor, Chi had great success right out of the gate after he landed in Los Angeles. Chi left his mark with his outstanding performance by starring in the critically acclaimed and highly rated Vanishing Son mini-series and starred in MOW Faith of My Father. Chi has also appeared as Guest Lead on numerous shows such as on Nip Tuck, The Player, CSI, NYPD Blue, and many others. His film credits include The Relic, Indecent Proposal, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more. One of the great things he learned from his parents was to invest all his earnings so he never had to worry about money. He believes money is a person and it should work for him. He's investments have gotten him tens of millions.

While Catfish In Black Bean Sauce was a career achievement, Chi realized that he may have jumped into directing too soon, as it caused him to neglect his acting career. To get things back on track, he was determined to accomplish two things: purchase Allen Edelman Management and create a non-profit acting group that gave him a place to seriously work on his craft.

With his purchase of Allen Edelman Management, as a manager, he nurtured the careers of countless clients over the years. Through this nurturing, he has participated in well over three thousand phone calls- listening to actors die-brief him on their auditions, pitching, dealing with talent agents and casting agents, and negotiating series deals and film deals with studios' Business Affairs representatives.

To achieve his second goal, Chi soon became the founder of the acting group entitled Actor's Consortium, a private, not-for-profit, professional, ethnically diverse actors group. It was created in July of 2002 to provide its members with a productive and nurturing environment to polish their craft and sharpen their skills. Chi served as Artistic Director from July 2002 to May 2005. Chi remained an active member until 2019.

Chi taught a master class in acting, once a week, from 2004-to 2006. Later, Chi created a 14-week workshop entitled Audition & Camera Acting Master Class where he taught a limited number of actors a set of skills and techniques he developed over his own acting career. This 14-week workshop was first held once in 2007 and once in 2012. One final workshop session initially planned for the summer of 2019, has developed into a seven-episode streaming educational video project called Mastering The Business of Acting.

Chi has always felt, it is simply unacceptable for actors to spend thousands of dollars on training and still not know anything about the acting business. With all the knowledge he gained as an actor, writer, director, and manager, something "clicked." The need to get this "knowledge" on tape to share with others was too overwhelming to ignore.

Mastering The Business of Acting has compiled in its seven episodes, thirteen hours of invaluable industry information rarely discussed so candidly. Mastering The Business of Acting is in many ways a lasting legacy he is able to share with generations of actors to come.

Most industry professionals have one perspective to draw from. However, his eclectic mix of professional achievements allowed Chi to see situations from not just one, but multiple angles. This in turn gave him a unique insight and understanding of the industry that few others could match.

Akira Fujii is an Australian actor, who was born in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, and raised in Osaka, Japan. His diverse cultural backgrounds bring a unique perspective to his roles and has gone on to work on and appear in over 10 productions. Akira can most recently be seen in Paramount Pictures' Last King of the Cross (2023) and Ruby's Choice (2022).

Thuy Thu Le was born on 23 August 1966 in Saigon, Vietnam. She is an actress, known for Outrages (1989).

At the age of eight in 1979, the Vietnam-born actress and her seven year-old sister were separated from their parents and left their village in central Vietnam as boat people. Their father and older brother had made the trip the year before and their mother stayed behind with her other children. The sisters lived in refugee camps in Hong Kong for three months where they were reunited with their father, then emigrated to California the United States before reuniting with her five other siblings. Her mother finally reunited with the family four years later.

Hiep was a premed student at U.C. Davis majoring in physiology when she came to the open casting call with one of her sisters for the Oliver Stone film Entre ciel et terre (1993) being held at San Jose State University because several of her friends were doing it for fun. She was one of 16,000 Vietnamese-Americans seen by casting scouts for the film and was the one of the thousands who got the starring role of Le Ly Hayslip. Despite having no acting experience, she had a half-dozen callbacks before she was finally chosen to play the role of Lely Heyslip between ages of 13 to 38.

Since that time, she has acted in several films and has graduated from college. She is the owner and operator of the China Beach Vietnamese Bistro in Venice, California.

Trieu Tran is a stage, screen and television actor. Born in Vietnam, immigrated to Canada and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He has dual citizenship with Canada and USA. He has appeared in numerous theatrical productions through the years. Notably, the role of Alan Strang in Equus (LADCC Nomination) with George Takei @EWP, the title role in Oedipus The King (Portland), The Legacy Codes (Dean Goodman Award) with TheatreWorks. Other favorites include: Rashomon, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part One (Hotspur), and the title role in Richard III. Film: Tropic Thunder, Trade of Innocents, How High, Hancock, Desperation, Last Call. TV: Currently a series regular on Netflix's Altered Carbon portraying the role of the fixer Mister Leung. Others include: The Newsroom, Intruders, Men At Work, Quickdraw (Hulu), Malcolm in the Middle. Uncle Ho To Uncle Sam is his first solo play written with co-author Robert Egan. Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam was first developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in 2011. It had its world premiere for Seattle ACT in Fall 2012 (Seattle Times Footlight Award/Gypsy Rose Nomination). Uncle Ho to Uncle Sam also had a run at The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Shakespeare Orange County, PlayMakers Rep (North Carolina).

Trieu is an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Mixed Martial Arts and Boston Redsox fanatic. A lover of Boston Terriers, especially his best friend Captain.

Mai Duong Kieu was born in February 1987 in Bac Ninh, Vietnam. She is an actress, known for Bloody Milkshake (2021), Bad Banks (2018) and Kleo (2022).