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.” And while might be cliché to open a p…
” fan. “To this day, whenever I get on a plane,” she says, “I still pray to God, Buddha and The Force.”
Other actors can boast about being part of the “Star Wars” universe or playing a Disney princess or having characters in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Universe. But few, if any, can lay claim to being involved with all of them in their career. And Wen isn’t just an actor — she’s a self-proclaimed fan.
When she started out, Wen briefly wondered if she should anglicize her name. Becoming a mother shifted her priorities from being so focused on career, and she hasn’t had a personal publicist in more than 20 years. So, while she feels a little strange having the spotlight on her, Wen also knows it’s about more than just herself.
After working in New York theater and a three-year stint on daytime drama “As the World Turns,” Wen was cast in her major career breakthrough role. She played June Woo in “The Joy Luck Club,” the 1993 adaptation of the bestselling book by Amy Tan centering on the relationships between four Chinese American women and their mothers. Wen refers to the movie, a critical and box office hit at the time, as “my citizenship into Hollywood.
After “The Joy Luck Club,” Wen joined the cast of the hit series “ER” as Dr. Jing-Mei “Deb” Chen and became the first Disney princess of Asian descent by voicing the lead in “Mulan,” recently making a cameo appearance in the 2020 live-action adaptation. She joined other popular fandoms with roles in projects such as “Street Fighter,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and voiced Detective Ellen Yin in “The Batman.
Wen pauses when asked about her biggest challenges before noting that playing talent agent Janet Stone on the hit comedy “Hacks” initially “terrified” her. “It had been a while since I’d done comedy and I was such a huge fan of the show,” Wen reveals.
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