Ming-Na Wen
Highest Rated: 100% Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors (2018)
Lowest Rated: 0% Mulan II (2003)
Birthday: Not Available
Birthplace: Not Available
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
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron | Hala the Accuser | — | 2019 |
| 100% | Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors | Hala | — | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | Breakdance Academy | Actor | — | 2017 |
| 3% | The Darkness | Wendy Richards | $10.8M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years | Actor | — | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | April Rain | Hillary | — | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Super Cyclone | Dr. Jenna Sparks | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | BoyBand (BoyBand: Breakin' Through in '82) | Judy Roberts | — | 2010 |
| 23% | Push | Emily Hu | $31.8M | 2009 |
| 67% | Young & Restless in China | Narrator | — | 2008 |
| 7% | Prom Night | Dr. Elisha Crowe | $43.9M | 2008 |
| 0% | Mulan II | Fa Mulan | — | 2003 |
| 0% | Teddy Bears' Picnic | Katy Woo | — | 2002 |
| 45% | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within | Dr. Aki Ross | — | 2001 |
| 86% | Mulan | Mulan | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 12 Bucks | Gorgeous | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Tempting Fate | Ellen Moretti | — | 1998 |
| 32% | One Night Stand | Mimi | — | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | Star Quest | Han | — | 1995 |
| 11% | Street Fighter | Chun-Li | — | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Hong Kong '97 | Katie Chun (as Ming-Na Wen) | — | 1994 |
| 86% | The Joy Luck Club | June | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Blind Spot | Mitsuko | — | 1993 |
| 50% | Rain Without Thunder | `Uudie' Prisoner | — | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | ER | Deb Chen | — | 1990 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet |
Hot Streets 2016 |
2019 |
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| No Score Yet |
Milo Murphy's Law 2016 |
Voice |
2019 2017 2016 |
| 94% |
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 2013 |
Melinda May |
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Celebrity Family Feud 2015 |
Appearing |
2018 |
| 94% |
Fresh Off the Boat 2015 |
Stephanie Elaine |
2018 2017 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Sofia the First 2013-2019 |
Voice |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Hollywood Game Night 2013-2019 |
Appearing |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2015 |
| 90% |
Nashville 2012-2018 |
Calista |
2013 |
| 81% |
Eureka 2006-2012 |
Sen. Wen Senator Wen |
2012 2011 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
Special Agent Oso 2009-2012 |
Voice |
2011 |
| 70% |
Stargate Universe 2009-2011 |
Camile Wray |
2011 2010 2009 |
| 63% |
Two and a Half Men 2003-2015 |
Linda Harris Linda |
2010 2007 |
| 86% |
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 2008-2011 |
Voice |
2009 |
| 86% |
Boston Legal 2004-2008 |
Ming Wang Shu |
2008 |
| 51% |
Private Practice 2007-2013 |
Kara |
2008 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
The Batman 2004-2008 |
Voice |
2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 |
| 62% |
Vanished 2006 |
Lin Mei |
2007 2006 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
George Lopez 2002-2007 |
Professor Lim |
2006 |
| No Score Yet |
Robot Chicken 2005 |
Voice |
2006 2005 |
| 30% |
Inconceivable 2005 |
Rachel Lu |
2005 |
| No Score Yet |
ER 1994-2009 |
Dr. Jing-Mei Chen Deb Chen |
2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1997 1996 1995 |
| No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999 |
Li Mei Lu Li Mei Wu |
2004 |
| No Score Yet |
Todd McFarlane's Spawn 1997-1999 |
Voice |
1999 |
| 75% |
The Single Guy 1997 |
Trudy Sloane |
QUOTES FROM Ming-Na Wen CHARACTERS
Mulan says: Shang!
Shang says: Mulan?
Mulan says: The Huns are alive! They're in the city!
Shang says: You don't belong here, Mulan. Go home.
Mulan says: Shang, I saw them in the mountains. You have to believe me!
Shang says: Why should I?
Mulan says: Why else would I come back? You said that you'd trust Ping. Why is Mulan any different?
Mulan says: Okay. Any questions?
Yao says: Does this dress make me look fat?
Mulan says: Okay. Any questions?
Yao says: Does this dress make me look fat? [he is slapped] Ow!
Mulan says: Would you like to stay for dinner?
Grandmother Fa says: Would you like to stay forever?
Chun-Li says: How about an interview for my network.
Col. Guile says: Yeah, sure. But only if you wear that dress.
Shan-Yu says: "Boo"
Shan-Yu says: Boo.
Mulan says: "Would you like to stay for Dinner"
Mulan says: Would you like to stay for dinner.
Aki Ross says: This mission was well worth the lives of you and your men.
Jane Proudfoot says: Men?
Ryan Whittaker says: She thinks you're a man.
Jane Proudfoot says: I think she's an idiot.
Neil Fleming says: I know you're not a man.
Jane Proudfoot says: I think YOU'RE an idiot too.