I am not American and these are the names I would pick:
George Takei, obviously
Chloe Bennett, Quake/Daisy from Agents of SHIELD
Ming-Na Wen, various roles such as Chun-Li in the live action Street Fighter movie, the voice of Mulan, and also in Agents of SHIELD as May
Do either of those two women count as famous? Because both of them were in Agents of SHIELD it once was described as having "two leading Asian female characters", which is when I learned Chloe is Asian because she sure as fuck doesn't look it in the slightest.
It's almost like using an entire continent as a label is a dumb idea because not only does the concept of "Asian" vary in some parts of the world, but other similar labels have a very large range of characteristics like with "Europeans" and "Africans" because the landmasses involved are fucking huge.
Anyway, more examples:
John Cho and Kal Penn of 'Harold and Kumar' fame
Linda Park, Hoshi Sato in Star Trek Enterprise
Garrett Wang, perma Ensign Harry Kim from Star Trek Voyager
Grace Park, Boomer from Battlestar Galactica
Daniel Dae Kim, voiced Johnny Gat in Saints Row but also starred in a lot of other things like Babylon 5 Crusade, which the less said the better 🙄
And Lucy Liu, from Ally McBeal, to Charlie's Angels, Elementary, and whatever else she's been in
10 names, 10 points, thank you Sci-fi diversity casting I guess 🤔 still a stupid concept as both "famous" and "Asian" vary in definition for other stupid reasons.
Chloe Bennet is half Asian, and apparently that manifested as only appearing Asian at certain angles, under certain lighting. This is the same woman, somehow.. It's in her eyes. Outside of Asians, you pretty much only see epicathic folds in Slavs, and a handful of African groups, but she's got more of a west European, German face, except somebody put the folds slider up two ticks.
I am not American and these are the names I would pick:
George Takei, obviously
Chloe Bennett, Quake/Daisy from Agents of SHIELD
Ming-Na Wen, various roles such as Chun-Li in the live action Street Fighter movie, the voice of Mulan, and also in Agents of SHIELD as May
Do either of those two women count as famous? Because both of them were in Agents of SHIELD it once was described as having "two leading Asian female characters", which is when I learned Chloe is Asian because she sure as fuck doesn't look it in the slightest.
It's almost like using an entire continent as a label is a dumb idea because not only does the concept of "Asian" vary in some parts of the world, but other similar labels have a very large range of characteristics like with "Europeans" and "Africans" because the landmasses involved are fucking huge.
Anyway, more examples:
John Cho and Kal Penn of 'Harold and Kumar' fame
Linda Park, Hoshi Sato in Star Trek Enterprise
Garrett Wang, perma Ensign Harry Kim from Star Trek Voyager
Grace Park, Boomer from Battlestar Galactica
Daniel Dae Kim, voiced Johnny Gat in Saints Row but also starred in a lot of other things like Babylon 5 Crusade, which the less said the better 🙄
And Lucy Liu, from Ally McBeal, to Charlie's Angels, Elementary, and whatever else she's been in
10 names, 10 points, thank you Sci-fi diversity casting I guess 🤔 still a stupid concept as both "famous" and "Asian" vary in definition for other stupid reasons.
Chloe Bennet is half Asian, and apparently that manifested as only appearing Asian at certain angles, under certain lighting. This is the same woman, somehow.. It's in her eyes. Outside of Asians, you pretty much only see epicathic folds in Slavs, and a handful of African groups, but she's got more of a west European, German face, except somebody put the folds slider up two ticks.
Lucy Liu was Vivienne in Sleeping Dogs