Asians on TV
by JohnJones2000 | created - 24 Jul 2015 | updated - 28 May 2016 | PublicA list of all the East Asian actors that are currently part of the main cast of a network television show.
1. Constance Wu
Actress | Crazy Rich Asians
Constance Wu was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother is a computer programmer and her father is a college professor. Both are immigrants from Taiwan. Constance grew up in Richmond performing in the local community theater scene. At 16, she moved to New York City to study at the famed ...
Network: ABC
Show: Fresh Off the Boat
Character: Jessica Huang
2. Randall Park
Actor | WandaVision
Randall Park is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He was born in Los Angeles, California, to Korean parents, and graduated from the Humanities Magnet Program at Hamilton High School. Park went on to receive a Bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing and a Master's degree ...
Network: ABC
Show: Fresh Off the Boat
Character: Louis Huang
3. Hudson Yang
Actor | Fresh Off the Boat
Hudson Yang was born on October 24, 2003 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Fresh Off the Boat (2015), The Sisterhood of Night (2014) and Honor Student (2023).
Network: ABC
Show: Fresh Off the Boat
Character: Eddie Huang
4. Forrest Wheeler
Actor | Fresh Off the Boat
Forrest Wheeler knows that if you want to live the dream, it takes commitment and hard work. Forrest has always strived for excellence in his many ventures and activities: Acting, IMPROV, Xtreme Martial Arts, Action Stunts, Hip Hop and Tennis to name a few.
Forrest's first acting class was at the ...
Network: ABC
Show: Fresh Off the Boat
Character: Emery Huang
5. Ian Chen
Actor | Shazam!
Ian Chen was born on September 7, 2006 in Los Angeles. At age 5, Ian booked his first national commercial and has since then, steadily worked in commercials, print, and television shows. In March 2014, he landed his big break when he booked the comedic role of Evan Huang in ABC's Fresh Off the Boat...
Network: ABC
Show: Fresh Off the Boat
Character: Evan Huang
6. Ming-Na Wen
Actress | Mulan
Ming-Na ("enlightenment") was born on the island of Macau, forty miles from Hong Kong. Her mother, Lin Chan Wen, divorced her father when Ming-Na was only a toddler. She has an older brother named Jonathan. After the divorce, they moved to Hong Kong where her mother became a nurse. There her mother...
Network: ABC
Show: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
Character: Agent Melinda May
7. Chloe Bennet
Actress | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Chloe Bennet is an American actress and singer. She is best known for ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013).
Bennet was born Chloe Wang in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is Han Chinese and her mother is Caucasian American.
At 15, she moved to China to pursue a singing career under her birth name, Chloe ...
Network: ABC
Show: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
Character: Agent Skye/Daisy Johnson
8. Yunjin Kim
Actress | Lost
Yunjin Kim (born November 7, 1973), also known as Kim Yun-Jin is a South Korean-American film and theater actress. She is best known for her role as Sun on the American television series Lost, and as the North Korean spy Bang-Hee in the South Korean film Shiri. She also starred as Dr. Karen Kim in ...
Network: ABC
Show: Mistresses
Character: Doctor Karen Kim
9. Aubrey Anderson-Emmons
Actress | Modern Family
Aubrey Anderson-Emmons was born in Santa Monica, California. She is an actress, best known for her role on Modern Family (2009) as "Lily," the adopted daughter of Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker. She also appeared in Distance (2014), the story of a man about to embark on a journey of ...
Network: ABC
Show: Modern Family
Character: Lily Tucker-Pritchett
10. Lucy Liu
Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Born to immigrants in New York City, Lucy Liu has always tried to balance an interest in her cultural heritage with a desire to move beyond a strictly Asian-American experience. Her mother, Cecilia, a biochemist, is from Beijing & her father, Tom Liu, a civil engineer, is from Shanghai. Once ...
Network: CBS
Show: Elementary
Character: Doctor Joan Watson
11. Daniel Dae Kim
Actor | Insurgent
Daniel Dae Kim has made a career of creating multifaceted and stereotype-breaking roles as an actor, director and now, producer. Prior to his seven-season portrayal of Chin Ho Kelly on "Hawaii Five-0," Kim was best known for his role as Jin Soo Kwon on the hit TV series "Lost," for which he shared ...
Network: CBS
Show: Hawaii Five-0
Character: Detective Chin Ho Kelly
12. Grace Park
Actress | Battlestar Galactica
Grace Park (born March 14, 1974) is an American-Canadian actress. She gained recognition as Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii and Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon on Battlestar Galactica (2004), as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont (2000). From 2010 to 2017, Park starred ...
Network: CBS
Show: Hawaii Five-0
Character: Officer Kona Kalakaua
13. Masi Oka
Actor | Heroes
Masayori "Masi" Oka is a Japanese American actor, producer and digital effects artist. He became widely known for his role on NBC's Heroes as Hiro Nakamura and in CBS' Hawaii Five-0 as Doctor Max Bergman. Oka was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Setsuko Oka. His parents divorced when he was one month old; ...
Network: CBS
Show: Hawaii Five-0
Character: Doctor Max Bergman
14. Jadyn Wong
Actress | Scorpion
A Canadian actress who has a black belt in karate and is also a classical pianist, Jadyn J. Wong made her professional acting debut in the Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated miniseries Broken Trail (2006) on June 24, 2006, with Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall. She was handpicked for ...
Network: CBS
Show: Scorpion
Character: Happy Quinn
15. Matthew Moy
Actor | American Auto
Matthew Moy was born on February 3, 1984 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for American Auto (2021), 2 Broke Girls (2011) and Steven Universe (2013).
Network: CBS
Show: 2 Broke Girls
Character: Han Lee
16. Michaela Conlin
Actress | Bad Trip
Michaela Conlin is an American actress best known for her role as Angela Montenegro on the Fox crime procedural comedy-drama Bones. Conlin was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on June 9, 1978 to a Chinese mother, an accountant, and an Irish father, a contractor. She performed in her first play at ...
Network: FOX
Show: Bones
Character: Angela Montenegro
17. Reggie Lee
Actor | Grimm
Reggie Lee was born on October 4, 1975 in Quezon City, Philippines. He is an actor and producer, known for Grimm (2011), All Rise (2019) and The Lincoln Lawyer (2022).
Network: NBC
Show: Grimm
Character: Sergeant Drew Wu
18. Ken Leung
Actor | Old
Ken Leung was raised in the Two Bridges section of the Lower East Side in New York City. His family moved to Midwood, Brooklyn where he grew up before finishing high school in Old Bridge, New Jersey. He attended NYU and studied acting with Catherine Russell and Nan Smithner, then briefly with Anne ...
Network: NBC
Show: The Night Shift
Character: Doctor Topher Zia
19. Jeananne Goossen
Actress | The Walking Dead
Jeananne Goossen is a dual citizen of the US and Canada, raised in Toronto, New York and various cities in Japan.
Her mother, Tam Goossen, is from Hong Kong and became an activist and municipally elected official in education after immigrating to Toronto. Her father, Ted Goossen, from Manhattan, NY,...
Network: NBC
Show: The Night Shift
Character: Doctor Krista Bell-Hart
20. Kristin Kreuk
Actress | EuroTrip
Kristin Kreuk was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Deanna Che, who is of Chinese ancestry, and Peter Kreuk, who is of Dutch descent. Her parents are landscape architects. She attended and graduated from Eric Hamber Secondary School. Although she did some stage work in school, she ...
Network: The CW
Show: Beauty and the Beast
Character: Catherine Chandler
21. Candice Patton
Actress | The Flash
Raised in Plano, Texas, Candice continued her childhood dream of becoming an actress by attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.F.A in Theatre. It was here that she was scouted by The Young and the Restless for a CBS Soap Star Contest and flew ...
Network: The CW
Show: The Flash
Character: Iris West
22. Christopher Larkin
Actor | The 100
Born in Taegu, South Korea. Adopted by parents of Irish and French-Canadian descent. Raised in Hebron, Connecticut.
In 2001, Larkin was discovered by director Martha Coolidge and cast in the lead role of the young son in Hallmark Entertainment's "The Flamingo Rising." He then went on to train at the...
Network: The CW
Show: The 100
Character: Monty Green
23. Bob Morley
Actor | The 100
Bob Morley was born on December 20, 1984 in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and director, known for The 100 (2014), Love Me (2021) and Home and Away (1988). He has been married to Eliza Taylor since May 5, 2019. They have one child.
Network: The CW
Show: The 100
Character: Bellamy Blake
24. Nico Santos
Actor | Crazy Rich Asians
Santos was born in Manila, Philippines and moved with his family to the United States when he was sixteen, residing in Gresham, Oregon and attending Gresham's Centennial High School. Santos studied acting at Southern Oregon University. He worked for several years in the costume department of the ...
Network: NBC
Show: Superstore
Character: Mateo Liwanag
25. Nichole Sakura
Actress | Until Dawn
Prior to booking her films "Model Minority" and "Project X," Nichole has done commercial work and modeled for American Apparel. Although she cannot pinpoint the exact moment she realized she wanted to start acting, Nichole recalls that she loved recreating characters and doing funny voices from a ...
Network: NBC
Show: Superstore
Character: Cheyenne Lee
26. Ken Jeong
Actor | The Hangover
Ken Jeong is an American actor, comedian, and physician. He is known for his roles as Ben Chang on the critically acclaimed NBC/Yahoo! sitcom Community (2009) and gangster Leslie Chow in The Hangover (2009) Trilogy. He appeared in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain (2013), as Johnny Wu, a motivational ...
Network: ABC
Show: Dr. Ken
Character: Ken Park
27. Suzy Nakamura
Actress | Curb Your Enthusiasm
Suzy Nakamura was born on December 2, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), Modern Family (2009) and Dead to Me (2019). She was previously married to Harry Hannigan.
Network: ABC
Show: Dr. Ken
Character: Allison Park
28. Krista Marie Yu
Actress | Dr. Ken
Krista Marie Yu was born in Alameda, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Dr. Ken (2015), Last Man Standing (2011) and The Thundermans (2013).
Network: ABC
Show: Dr. Ken
Character: Molly Park
29. Albert Tsai
Actor | Abominable
Albert Tsai is an American actor. He started his professional career at the age of 9. Albert won rave reviews and multiple awards recognition for his breakout role as Bert on the ABC comedy series Trophy Wife, including a "Best Supporting Actor" nomination from 2014 Critics' Choice Television ...
Network: ABC
Show: Dr. Ken
Character: Dave Park
30. Lucille Soong
Actress | Freaky Friday
Lucille Soong was born in Beijing, China and moved to Hong Kong when she was 22. Discovered by the famous English director Lewis Gilbert, Lucille was cast to play a bride in the feature Ferry To Hong Kong with Orson Welles. After moving to London during the Swinging 60's, she was chased down by an ...
Network: ABC
Show: Fresh Off the Boat
Character: Grandma Huang
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