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Ming-Na Wen

ミン・ナ　/　みん・な

Television actor from People's Republic of China

November 20, 1963 (age 62)　・　Coloane, People's Republic of China

television actor
film actor
voice actor

My Take

To me, Ming-Na Wen is the rare actor whose career doubles as a map of how doors slowly opened for Asian performers in Hollywood. She voiced Mulan, anchored ER, then reinvented herself as an action lead in her fifties and sixties — Agent May, then a bounty hunter in The Mandalorian — at an age when most careers contract. What impresses me most is the discipline behind that longevity: a Carnegie Mellon-trained craftsperson who treats every franchise, animated or live-action, with the same seriousness. The Disney Legend title in 2019 felt less like a capstone than a checkpoint. She keeps proving that reinvention, not nostalgia, sustains a forty-year career.

Overview

Ming-Na Wen (Chinese: 溫明娜; born November 20, 1963) is an American actress and model. She 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. She was honored as a Disney Legend in 2019 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Ming-Na Wen
Name (Japanese): ミン・ナ
Reading: みん・な
Born: November 20, 1963 (age 62)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Rabbit
Origin: Coloane, People's Republic of China
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: television actor / film actor / voice actor / actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Mt. Lebanon High School
University: Carnegie Mellon University

Awards & achievements

1998 Annie Award
2019 Disney Legends
2015 TVLine's Performer of the Week
2021 BBC 100 Women

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	The Joy Luck Club	—
Notable work	ER	—
Notable work	Mulan	—
Notable work	Stargate Universe	—
Notable work	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	—
Notable work	The Mandalorian	—

6. Links

Official sitehttp://www.ming-na.com/
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mingna_wen/
Xhttps://x.com/mingna
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A

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