Ke Huy Quan Trivia | 38 facts about the actor

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.

1. Ke Huy Quan was born in August 20, 197
2. He is also known as Jonathan Ke Quan
3. He is a Vietnamese-American actor and stunt choreographer
4. As a young actor, Quan played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Data in The Goonies (1985)
5. Quan also had starring roles in the sitcom Head of the Class (1991) and film Encino Man (1992)
6. Quan returned to acting in 2021 after an almost 20-year hiatus from his last acting role
7. 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)
8. His performance won him many accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award
9. Quan is one of two actors of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the other being Haing S. Ngor
10. Quan also became the first Vietnam-born actor in history to win an Oscar
11. 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
12. Quan was born on August 20, 1971, in Saigon, South Vietnam to Vietnamese parents of Chinese descent
13. He has eight siblings
14. In 1978, his family fled Vietnam
15. He, his father, and five siblings arrived in a refugee camp in Hong Kong, while his mother and three other siblings fled to Malaysia
16. His whole family was admitted to the United States through the refugee resettlement program in 1979
17. Quan attended Mount Gleason Junior High School in Tujunga, California, and Alhambra High School in Alhambra, California
18. Quan graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1999
19. There he produced and shot the multi-award winning short film Voodoo, which was written and directed by his friend Gregg Bishop
20. The short film won several awards including the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival
21. 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
22. After graduation, he worked with Hong Kong fight choreographer Corey Yuen on several projects
23. As an adult, Quan found it difficult to find acting work in the United States
24. He eventually quit acting and enrolled in the film program at University of Southern California
25. After graduating from USC, Quan was asked by Corey Yuen to go to Toronto, Ontario, to help choreograph fighting sequences in X-Men (2000)
26. For the next decade, he worked on various productions in Asia and the United States
27. He again helped Yuen as a stunt choreographer for The One (2001)
28. Quan worked as assistant director on Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 (2004)
29. After landing the role of Waymond Wang, Quan received a supporting role in the Netflix film Finding ʻOhana (2021) in September 2019
30. Quan approached director Jude Weng after overhearing her describing the film as The Goonies meets Indiana Jones, in both of which Quan had appeared
31. In February 2022, it was announced that he had joined the cast of the TV adaptation of American Born Chinese for Disney+
32. In September 2022, Quan was announced to have joined the cast for the second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki for Disney+
33. Quan is of Han Chinese ancestry from the Hoa ethnic minority group of Vietnam
34. He is fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese
35. Quan is married to Echo Quan
36. They reside in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
37. He remains close friends with his Goonies co-star Jeff Cohen
38. He is also Quan’s entertainment lawyer