1. Ming-Na Wen has won multiple awards throughout her career, including an Annie Award and a Saturn Award, in addition to a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
30 Facts About Ming-Na Wen
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Ming-Na Wen was honored as a Disney Legend in 2019 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
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Additionally, Ming-Na Wen made a cameo appearance in the live-action remake of Mulan.
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Ming-Na Wen was born on November 20,1963, on Coloane, one of the two main islands of Macau.
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Ming-Na Wen has an older brother Jonathan and a younger brother Leong.
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Ming-Na Wen's parents divorced when she was an infant, and she moved with her brother and mother to Hong Kong, where she attended a Catholic school.
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Ming-Na Wen's mother worked three jobs to provide for the family.
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Ming-Na Wen's mother remarried to Chinese American Soo Lim Yee, and when Wen was four years old, the family moved to New York City.
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Ming-Na Wen majored in theatre at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1986.
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Ming-Na Wen played Chun-Li in Street Fighter and co-starred on the sitcom The Single Guy from 1995 to 1997.
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Ming-Na Wen provided the voice for the title character in the 1998 animated film Mulan, its direct-to-video sequel, Mulan II, and the video game Kingdom Hearts II, subsequently winning an Annie Award.
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Ming-Na Wen voiced Aki Ross in the animated film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and Detective Ellen Yin in the animated series The Batman.
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Ming-Na Wen voiced a minor character Jade in the HBO animated series Spawn.
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In 2004, Ming-Na Wen won a Hollywood Home Game on the World Poker Tour.
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Ming-Na Wen's next TV role was an FBI agent in the Fox kidnapping drama series Vanished, which premiered in the fall of 2006, but it too was cancelled.
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Ming-Na Wen played a college professor in the comedy series George Lopez.
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From October 8 through October 29,2007, Ming-Na Wen appeared in a four-episode arc of CBS's Two and a Half Men playing Charlie Sheen's love interest, a judge closer to his own age.
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From December 5 to 6,2008, Ming-Na Wen starred in a benefit production of the musical Grease with "Stuttering John" Melendez at the Class Act Theatre.
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Ming-Na Wen was cast as a regular in the Stargate Universe television series from October 2009 to May 2011 as political attache Camile Wray.
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Ming-Na Wen appears in Disney Through the Decades, a documentary short about the history of The Walt Disney Company, hosting the 1990s section.
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Ming-Na Wen appeared on the Syfy series Eureka as the inquisitive US Senator Michaela Ming-Na Wen, beginning in season four in 2011 and then serving as a major villain in the fifth and final season in 2012.
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Ming-Na Wen's daughter has a recurring role on the show as Princess Jun.
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In 2019, it was announced that Ming-Na Wen would be a cast member of the Star Wars TV series The Mandalorian playing Fennec Shand.
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Ming-Na Wen reprised the role vocally in Star Wars: The Bad Batch and the live-action series The Book of Boba Fett.
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In 2022, Ming-Na Wen made an appearance on Young Sheldon as Dr Lee, an experimental physicist responsible for mitigating conflict within a team of scientists.
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Ming-Na Wen is set to recur on the second season of HBO Max's Hacks.
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Ming-Na Wen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
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Ming-Na Wen is well known for her work with Disney.
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Ming-Na Wen went on to say that she has "broken through barriers for Asian performers".
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On June 16,1995, Ming-Na Wen married Eric Michael Zee and together they have a daughter and a son.