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Ming-Na Wen's 1981 Mt. Lebanon High School yearbook photo. Wen was born on November 20, 1963, on Coloane, one of the two main islands of Macau. [1] Her mother Lin Chan Wen moved to Macau in the 1950s from Suzhou, China, to escape communism. [3] Her father is of Malaysian Chinese descent. [4] She has an older brother Jonathan [5] and a younger ...
Ming-Na Wen portrays and voices Fennec Shand in The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and in The Book of Boba Fett with Ming Qiu as her stunt double. [30] [31] Fennec Shand is the first major Star Wars villain/antihero character portrayed by an Asian actress. [32] Wen stated that it was her "dream role of a lifetime" to play Fennec. [33]
Fennec Shand is portrayed by Ming-Na Wen. [9] [10] [11] It marks one of several notable performances by Wen in Walt Disney Company projects, including voicing Mulan in the animated films Mulan (1998), Mulan II (2004) and the video game Kingdom Hearts II (2005), making a cameo appearance in the 2020 live-action remake as a court guest, and portraying Melinda May on the Marvel series Agents of S ...
Since she was a child, Ming-Na Wen has been a “Star Wars” fan. “To this day, whenever I get on a plane,” she says, “I still pray to God, Buddha and The Force.”
It was a day to remember for Ming-Na Wen, who reunited with her Joy Luck Club castmates on Tuesday at her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.The 59-year-old Star Wars and Marvel actress was honored ...
It was directed by Wayne Wang and stars Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, and Ming-Na Wen. The film is based on the 1989 novel by Amy Tan, [2] who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bass.
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all," the Emperor of China waxed poetic in Disney's 1998 animated classic, Mulan. Originally set to open in theaters early ...
Temuera Morrison stars as the title character, with Ming-Na Wen and Pedro Pascal also starring. All reprise their roles from The Mandalorian and other Star Wars media. A standalone Star Wars film centered on Boba Fett was in early development at Lucasfilm before the company began prioritizing streaming series such as The Mandalorian. A ...