Ke Huy Quan made his debut in film in 1984 and he made a comeback with the film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in 2022.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about his life and career.
- Ke Huy Quan was born in August 20, 197
- He is also known as Jonathan Ke Quan
- He is a Vietnamese-American actor and stunt choreographer
- As a young actor, Quan played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Data in The Goonies (1985)
- Quan also had starring roles in the sitcom Head of the Class (1991) and film Encino Man (1992)
- Quan returned to acting in 2021 after an almost 20-year hiatus from his last acting role
- He played Waymond Wang, a kind and loving husband navigating the multiverse in the critically acclaimed science fiction comedy-drama film Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
- His performance won him many accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award
- Quan is one of two actors of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the other being Haing S. Ngor
- Quan also became the first Vietnam-born actor in history to win an Oscar
- With his win at the 2023 Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, he became the first Asian man to win in the category of supporting actor for film
- Quan was born on August 20, 1971, in Saigon, South Vietnam to Vietnamese parents of Chinese descent
- He has eight siblings
- In 1978, his family fled Vietnam
- He, his father, and five siblings arrived in a refugee camp in Hong Kong, while his mother and three other siblings fled to Malaysia
- His whole family was admitted to the United States through the refugee resettlement program in 1979
- Quan attended Mount Gleason Junior High School in Tujunga, California, and Alhambra High School in Alhambra, California
- Quan graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1999
- There he produced and shot the multi-award winning short film Voodoo, which was written and directed by his friend Gregg Bishop
- The short film won several awards including the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival
- It is now screened at orientation for incoming USC film students along with the short films Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB by George Lucas and The Lift by Robert Zemeckis
- After graduation, he worked with Hong Kong fight choreographer Corey Yuen on several projects
- As an adult, Quan found it difficult to find acting work in the United States
- He eventually quit acting and enrolled in the film program at University of Southern California
- After graduating from USC, Quan was asked by Corey Yuen to go to Toronto, Ontario, to help choreograph fighting sequences in X-Men (2000)
- For the next decade, he worked on various productions in Asia and the United States
- He again helped Yuen as a stunt choreographer for The One (2001)
- Quan worked as assistant director on Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 (2004)
- After landing the role of Waymond Wang, Quan received a supporting role in the Netflix film Finding ʻOhana (2021) in September 2019
- Quan approached director Jude Weng after overhearing her describing the film as The Goonies meets Indiana Jones, in both of which Quan had appeared
- In February 2022, it was announced that he had joined the cast of the TV adaptation of American Born Chinese for Disney+
- In September 2022, Quan was announced to have joined the cast for the second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki for Disney+
- Quan is of Han Chinese ancestry from the Hoa ethnic minority group of Vietnam
- He is fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese
- Quan is married to Echo Quan
- They reside in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
- He remains close friends with his Goonies co-star Jeff Cohen
- He is also Quan’s entertainment lawyer
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