MING-NA

'Ming-Na Wen' (; born November 20, 1963) is an American actress. She has been credited with and without her surname, but most credits since the late 1990s have been without it.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Selected filmography

External links

Biography

Early life

Ming-Na was born on Coloane Island, Macau to Chinese parents and moved to the United States as a young girl with her mother; her parents divorced when she was a toddler. She attended high school in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University, the same university that ''ER'' producer John Wells attended.
She is married to Eric Michael Zee (16 June 1995 - present) with 2 children.
She was earlier married to the american film writer Kirk Aaness from 1990 to 1993, this short lived marriage ended in divorce. No children came out of this marriage.

Career

Playing Lien Hughes on ''As the World Turns'', she was the first Asian American to be a regular on a daytime soap opera. Her most prominent role may be as Dr. Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen on the NBC drama series ''ER''. Ming-Na appeared in the movie version of Amy Tan's novel ''The Joy Luck Club'' and played Chun-Li in ''Street Fighter''. She also appeared in a supporting role on the comedy series ''The Single Guy'' which starred Jonathan Silverman.
Ming-Na also provided the voice for the title character in Disney's animated movie ''Mulan'', and its sequel ''Mulan II'', as well as reprising her role in the Square Enix/Disney videogame ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Aki Ross in the computer animated film '', and Detective Ellen Yin in the animated series ''The Batman''. She was also the voice actress for Jade, a minor character in the HBO animated series Spawn.
In fall 2005, she starred on the NBC drama series ''Inconceivable'' as the lead character, Rachel Lu. However, the series was cancelled after only a few episodes. Her next TV role was an FBI agent in the FOX kidnap drama series ''Vanished,'' which premiered in the fall of 2006 then was cancelled roughly 3 months later.

Selected filmography

'Year'	'Title'	'Role'	'Other notes'
1992	''Rain Without Thunder''	''"Uudie" Prisoner''
1993	''The Joy Luck Club''	''Jing-Mei "June" Woo''
1994	''Terminal Voyage''	''Han''
	''Hong Kong 97''	''Katie Chun''
	''Street Fighter''	''Chun-Li Zang''
1997	''One Night Stand''	''Mimi Carlyle''
1998	''12 Bucks''	''Gorgeous''
	''Mulan''	''Fa Mulan(voice)''	Voice Actress
1999	''	''Jade/Lisa Wu (voice)''
2001	''Aki's Dream''	''Dr. Aki Ross (voice)''
	''	''Dr.Aki Ross(voice)''
2002	''A Ribbon of Dreams''	''Mei-Ling (voice)''
	''Teddy Bear's Picnic''	''Katy Woo''
2003	''The Bronx Bunny Show s1 e1	'' ''	Talkshow
2004	''Perfection''	''Woman''
	''Mike's Super Short Show''
	''Mulan II (V)''	''Fa Mulan (voice)''	Voice Actress
2005	''The World of Mulan''	''Fa Mulan (voice)''	Voice Actress
2006	''Kingdom Hearts II	''Fa Mulan'' (voice)	Voice Actress
2007	''Bratz: the Movie	''Jade''	Voice Actress

External links

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★ Ming-Na interview