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Audrey (magazine)
''Audrey Magazine'', or also known as ''Audrey'', was a publication focusing on Asian American women, published quarterly throughout the U.S. History The first issue of the magazine hit newsstands in March 2003. The magazine was named after the publisher's daughter to acknowledge that many Asian American women have English names. ''Audrey'' covered Asians and Asian Americans in popular culture, fashion and beauty trends, lifestyle and travel, as well as social and cultural issues relevant to Asians and Asian Americans. Its sister publication was '' KoreAm''. In its 10-year history, ''Audrey'' has been an important voice, covering stories well before the mainstream media picks them up, whether it is Asian plastic surgery, an emerging Asian American talent, or the K-pop craze. The magazine has featured Asian and Asian American celebrities on its cover, including Freida Pinto, Maggie Q and Olivia Munn. The magazine is based in Gardena, California Gardena is a city located in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans with ancestry from the continent of Asia (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peoples of the continent of Asia, the usage of the term "Asian" by the United States Census Bureau denotes a racial category that includes people with origins or ancestry from East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia. It excludes people with ethnic origins from West Asia, who were historically classified as 'white' and will be categorized as Middle Eastern Americans starting from the 2030 census. Central Asian ancestries (including Afghan, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, and Uzbek) were previously not included in any racial category but have been designated as "Asian" as of 2024. The "Asian" census category includes people who indicate their race(s) on the census as "Asian" or reported entries s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Yu
Jessica Yu ( zh, c=虞琳敏, p=Yú Línmǐn) is an American director, writer, producer, and film editor. She has directed documentary films, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1997 for '' Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien'' (1996). Yu's film ''Last Call at the Oasis'' (2012) is based upon Alex Prud'homme's ''Ripple Effect''. Her more recent films have been: '' Misconception'' (2014), ''ForEveryone.Net'' (2016), a documentary film about the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and a Netflix comedy ''Maria Bamford: Old Baby'' (2017). In 2019, Yu was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Direction for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special" for the '' Fosse/Verdon'' episode "Glory". Early life and education Yu grew up in Los Altos Hills, California. Her father, Dr. John Kou-ping Yu, an oncologist, was born in Shanghai. Her mother, Connie Young Yu, writer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Quijano
Elaine Cagas Quijano is an American television reporter. Formerly with CNN, she is now an anchor with CBS News. Early life and education Quijano is a second-generation Filipino American. She grew up in the Skokie and Morton Grove suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Career Quijano began her career as an intern at WCIA-TV in Champaign, Illinois, in 1994, and later became a reporter, producer, and anchor there. In 1998, Quijano left WCIA to become a general assignment reporter for WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida. Quijano was a correspondent for CNN Newsource, an affiliate of CNN, starting in December 2000. She covered the September 11, 2001 attacks and traveled to Kuwait City shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. She remained in Kuwait for about a month. Quijano also covered the 2003 Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster and the Beltway sniper attacks. In 2004, Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabu (actress)
Tabassum Fatima Hashmi (born 4 November 1971), known professionally as Tabu, is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi and Telugu films. Regarded as one of Hindi cinema's most accomplished actresses, she has often played troubled women, from fictional to literary, in both mainstream and independent cinema. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two National Film Awards, seven Filmfare Awards (includes a record five Critics Awards for Best Actress), and two Filmfare Awards South. In 2011, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian honour.Padma Awards Announced . Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2011 Tabu had her first credited role as a teenager in |
Kelly Hu
Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress. She starred as Dr. Rae Chang on the American television soap opera '' Sunset Beach'' and as Michelle Chan on the American television police drama series '' Nash Bridges''. She has starred in numerous films including '' The Scorpion King'' (2002) as Cassandra, '' Cradle 2 the Grave'' (2003) as Sona, '' X2'' (2003) as Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike, '' The Tournament'' (2009) as Lai Lai Zhen, and '' White Frog'' (2012). She appeared as China White/Chen Na Wei in The CW series ''Arrow.'' Hu has had recurring roles as Pearl on The CW series ''The Vampire Diaries'', Hamato Miwa / Karai on ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'', Stacy Hirano on the Disney Channel animated series ''Phineas and Ferb'', and as Adira in '' Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure''. She also voices Cheshire and Paula Crock / Huntress in Young Justice. Early life Hu was born on February 13, 1968, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Juanita and Herbert Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinko Kikuchi
is a Japanese actress, and was the first Japanese actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 50 years, for her work in '' Babel'' (2006). Kikuchi's other notable films include '' Norwegian Wood'' (2010), which screened in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival and Guillermo del Toro's science fiction action film ''Pacific Rim'' (2013). For her role in the drama film '' Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter'' (2014), Kikuchi received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. She is currently seen in the HBO Max crime drama series '' Tokyo Vice''. Early life Kikuchi was born on January 6, 1981, in Hadano, Kanagawa, the youngest of three children. She was discovered by a talent agent inside the shopping mall Laforet Harajuku at the age of 15. Career Kikuchi made her debut in 1999, under her birth name, Yuriko Kikuchi, with the Kaneto Shindo film ''Will to Live''. Soon after, in 2001, she starred in the celebrated Kazuyoshi Komuri film , which was featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Park (actress)
Grace Park (born March 14, 1974) is an American-Canadian actress and model, known for her roles in the science-fiction series ''Battlestar Galactica'', as Shannon Ng in the Canadian teen soap opera series '' Edgemont'', as Officer Kono Kalakaua in the police procedural '' Hawaii Five-0'', and as Katherine Kim in ''A Million Little Things''. Early life Born in Los Angeles to Korean parents, (Gale document no. GALE, K1650007575, accessed October 17, 2011). Park moved with her family to Canada when she was 22 months old. She was raised in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kerrisdale. She graduated from Magee Secondary School in 1992 and holds a degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia. Career At age 25, Park was cast as high school student Shannon Ng on the Canadian teen soap opera '' Edgemont''."It's Evening in America". '' Vanity Fair''. May 2012. p. 152. She appeared in the miniseries ''Battlestar Galactica'' in 2003 and continued as the same or related charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Wu
Vivian Wu ( Wu Junmei; ; born February 5, 1966) is a Chinese and American actress.Chen Nan ''China Daily'', 27 April 2007. Starring in a variety of North American and Chinese productions, her big break came in 1987, when she appeared in the biographical film ''The Last Emperor''. She later went to starring in films '' Iron & Silk'' (1990), '' The Guyver'' (1991), '' Heaven & Earth'' (1993), ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III'' (1993), '' The Joy Luck Club'' (1993), and most notably playing the leading roles in ''The Pillow Book'' (1996) and '' The Soong Sisters'' (1997). In 2020, she starred as Dr. Lu Wang in the Netflix science fiction drama series '' Away'', while in 2023, she portrayed Vivian Zhu in the Apple TV+ murder mystery comedy series '' The Afterparty''. Early life Wu Junmei was born in Shanghai, China. Wu is the daughter of Zhu Manfang, one of the leading actresses in China during the 1940s and 1950s. She attended Shanghai Shixi High School and began acting at the ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheetal Sheth
Sheetal Sheth () is an American actress, author, producer, and activist of Indian Americans, Indian descent. As an actress, she is known for starring opposite Albert Brooks in ''Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World''. She debuted in the film ''ABCD'' and has appeared in the films ''American Chai,'' ''I Can't Think Straight,'' and ''The World Unseen''. Sheth was the first Indian Americans, Indian American to appear in ''Maxim magazine''.Sharma, Jaya. "Simply Sheetal" She has published op-eds in CNN, ''The Daily Beast'', and ''Thrive Global''. She is also the author of a series of picture books, beginning with the book ''Always Anjali''. Early life and education Sheth was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and is a first-generation Gujarati Americans, Gujarati Indian Americans, Indian American. Her parents came to the United States from Gujarat, India in 1972.Melwani, Lavina. "Lethal Sheetal" Although academics were her priority, Sheth also studied multicultural dance and was involv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gong Li
Gong Li ( zh, s=巩俐, t=鞏俐; born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese-born Singaporean actress. She is regarded as one of the best actresses in China today, known for her versatility and naturalistic performances. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Gong was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, and grew up in Jinan, Shandong. She enrolled at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, from where she graduated in 1989. While a student at the Academy, she was spotted by director Zhang Yimou and debuted in Zhang's '' Red Sorghum'' in 1987. Gong and Zhang's professional and personal relationship received much coverage in the Chinese-speaking world, as they continued to collaborate on a string of critically-acclaimed movies, including the Oscar-nominated features '' Ju Dou'' (1990) and '' Raise the Red Lantern'' (1991). For her role in the Zhang-directed '' The Story of Qiu Ju'' (1992), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Krusiec
Michelle Jacqueline Krusiec (born Ya-Huei Yang; ; October 2, 1974) is an American actress, writer and producer. Early life and education Krusiec was born in Taiwan. She was adopted at age five and raised in Virginia Beach, Virginia by her father's elder sister, who had married a Polish American, longtime U.S. Navy officer Carl Andrew Krusiec. Her adoptive father renamed her Michelle Jacqueline because he wanted her to have a French name. Krusiec studied theater at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), graduating with a B.A.. She also studied Shakespeare and women's literature at the University of Oxford on a scholarship. Career Television and voicework Krusiec was recruited to be one of six globe-trotting travel reporters for the Discovery Channel series ''Travelers'' in 1996. She traveled to over 50 different locations on the show. Krusiec played the 18-year-old Molly O'Brien in the '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode "Time's Orphan". She co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navi Rawat
Navlata Rawat (born June 5, 1977) is a former American television and film actress, known for her roles as Theresa Diaz on the drama series ''The O.C.'' and math prodigy Amita Ramanujan on the drama series ''Numb3rs''. Early life Rawat was born in Malibu, California to Claudia (née Littmann) and Rajaji Rawat. Her mother is German and her father is Indian. Her maternal grandfather was Gerhard Littmann, the President of Police (''Polizeipräsident'') of Frankfurt. She was raised in Miami, Florida. She attended Miami Country Day School and is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Career In television, Rawat is best known for her roles as Theresa Diaz on the drama ''The O.C.'' and math prodigy Amita Ramanujan on ''Numb3rs''. She had a guest role as Melanie in the first season of '' 24''. Her work in film includes the science-fiction ''Thoughtcrimes'' (2003), the Project Greenlight film ''Feast'' (2005), and the independent romantic comedy ''Loveless in Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
