Happy Birthday Ming-Na Wen! One of first parts was on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood providing the fanfare for King Friday XIII. Next she was Lien Hughes on the soap opera, As the World Turns (1988-1991). A defining role was a June Woo in the adaptation of Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club (1993), as part of a mostly Asian cast. Next, she was in two Vanishing Son movies in 1994, it led to an action series that starred Russell Wong as one of the first series featuring an Asian lead. She also appeared in “Redesigning Women” (1994) episode of All-American Girl that had Margaret Cho in the lead of the too-short lived comedy series. It is the first series that had an Asian family which we had to wait 21 years before another one was on television. Fan favorite character, Chun-Li, was played by Wen in Street Fighter (1994). Then, she starred as Trudy in The Single Guy (1995-1997). Wen was in the hospital drama, ER (1995-2004) playing Dr. Jing-Mei Chen. Ming-Na Wen was also groundbreaking in voicing the lead character in the animated movie, Mulan (1998). She entered comic book territory voicing Jade in the Spawn (1998-1999) animated series. Another game based film, the animated Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), voicing Doctor Aki Ross.
Ming-Na Wen returned to voice the direct to video Mulan II (2004). Next, Wen voiced Detective Ellen Yin in The Batman (2004-2005) cartoon series. She had appeared in 2007 episodes of the comedy Two and a Half Men. She voiced Dr. Hirano in the animated short series, Phineas and Ferb (2008-2014). Wen had another genre show with her role as Camile Wray in Stargate Universe (2009-2011). Senator Michaela Wen was played by Wen in the sci fi series Eureka (2011-2012). A long running and iconic part was Wen playing Agent Melinda May, The Cavalry, in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013-2020). Wen returned to voice Mulan in “Princess to the Rescue!” (2014) episode of Sofia the First. She also appeared in episodes of Fresh Off the Boat in 2017, 2018, and 2019. She voiced Phyla-Vell in the Guardians of the Galaxy (2018) animated series. Mulan returned with other princesses voiced by Ming Na Wen in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018). The next iconic role was the bounty hunter, Fennec Shand, in The Mandalorian (2019-2020). One of the highlights of the live action Mulan (2020) movie was Wen’s cameo as the Esteemed Guest. She voiced Fennec in two 2021 episodes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Upcoming, December 29th, is the debut of The Book of Boba Fett with Wen back as Fennec Shand. Happy Birthday Ming-Na Wen!
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