Asian American Actresses

Let's celebrate these powerful, fearless, bold, and successful women in Hollywood breaking through stereotypes and silence, and making power moves, and winning awards.
These actresses kick butt in TV, Film, and Media!

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Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.

Youn Yuh-jung
In 2021, she gained international recognition for her role in the film Minari (2020), for which she is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Yunjin Kim
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.

Joan Chen
The Last Emperor 

Constance Wu
"Crazy Rich Asians" stars Constance Wu from ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat”

Amy Hill

Magnum P.I.

Awkwafina

Crazy Rich Asians

Awkwafina Is The First Asian Woman To Host SNL In 18 Years.

Michelle Yeoh
James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crazy Rich Asians

Gemma Chan
Crazy Rich Asians

Arden Cho
Teen Wolf

Sandra Oh

Sandra Oh was the first person of Asian descent to host the Golden Globe.

Sandra Oh is the first woman of Asian descent to win multiple Golden Globes

Sandra Oh is the first woman of Asian descent in 39 years to win a Golden Globe for best actress in a TV drama

Grace Park
Hawaii Five-0, A Million Little Things

Mindy Kaling
She first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the NBC sitcom The Office, for which she also served as a writer, executive producer, and director. 

Kelly Marie Tran
Tran is making history as the first actress of Southeast Asian descent to lead a Disney animated movie, and Raya (slated for release March 21, 2021) also happens to be the first feature from Walt Disney Animation to be inspired by Southeast Asia.

Lucy Liu
Liu hosted SNL in December 2000, about two months after the release of the wildly popular “Charlie's Angels” remake, in which she starred alongside Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. “I just found out that I am the first Asian woman to ever host SNL,” Liu said then, to applause.

Margaret Cho
“All-American Girl” starred Cho as Margaret Kim, a modern, 23-year-old Korean-American who often struggled with her conservative, traditional family, and was loosely based on Cho's prior standup routines. The show made waves as the first major network sitcom to focus on an Asian-American family.

Ming-Na Wen
First Asian actor cast in a regular role in a soap opera, first all-Asian-led cast in a major Hollywood film in The Joy Luck Club, first Asian Disney princess.

Yuh-Jung Youn Viral BAFTA Awards Speech

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