![Yin Chang
Currently plays Blair Waldorf’s academic rival, Nelli Yuki, on the CW’s hit show Gossip Girl. Chang can be seen in prior episodes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and Six Degrees. Born and raised in New York, Chang is of Taiwanese and Chinese Malaysian ancestry and is a classically trained pianist and ballerina. [More on IMDB and her official website.]
Gossip Girl premieres Next Monday, September 14th on the WB at 9pm.
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Currently plays Blair Waldorf’s academic rival, Nelli Yuki, on the CW’s hit show Gossip Girl. Chang can be seen in prior episodes of Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, and Six Degrees. Born and raised in New York, Chang is of Taiwanese and Chinese Malaysian ancestry and is a classically trained pianist and ballerina. [More on IMDB and her official website.]
Gossip Girl premieres Next Monday, September 14th on the WB at 9pm.
Miss the pilot? Access it here.
![Li Na
Tuesday, September 8th, US Open - Li Na, Asia and China’s No. 1 (as of 2009), No. 19 in the world and at Wimbledon, and No. 18 seed at the US Open, was defeated 6-2, 6-4 by former No. 1 Kim Clijsters in the Women’s Quarterfinals in just over an hour.
Demonstrating the mark of a true sportsman and champion, Li Na maintains a positive, humble attitude. “…still I do well for the whole tournament. Good experience for me…You never know. Maybe it’s day for [Clijsters], not for me…” More of Li Na’s interview here.
Li Na became the first Chinese tennis player to ever reach the top 30 (2006) and the top 20 (2007). She switched from badminton to tennis at age 8 when her coach saw her potential. More on her profile and stats here.Watch Federer v. Soderling and Oudin v. Wozniacki play in the Men’s and Women’s US Open Quarterfinals LIVE tonight at 7pm on ESPN2.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kppvsrA3CH1qzvmrjo1_500.jpg)
Tuesday, September 8th, US Open - Li Na, Asia and China’s No. 1 (as of 2009), No. 19 in the world and at Wimbledon, and No. 18 seed at the US Open, was defeated 6-2, 6-4 by former No. 1 Kim Clijsters in the Women’s Quarterfinals in just over an hour.
Demonstrating the mark of a true sportsman and champion, Li Na maintains a positive, humble attitude. “…still I do well for the whole tournament. Good experience for me…You never know. Maybe it’s day for [Clijsters], not for me…” More of Li Na’s interview here.
Li Na became the first Chinese tennis player to ever reach the top 30 (2006) and the top 20 (2007). She switched from badminton to tennis at age 8 when her coach saw her potential. More on her profile and stats here.
Watch Federer v. Soderling and Oudin v. Wozniacki play in the Men’s and Women’s US Open Quarterfinals LIVE tonight at 7pm on ESPN2.
![Nicole Bilderback
Bring It On 2 DVD was released yesterday, but we are paying homage to the original movie whose cast includes Korean born Nicole Bilderback. Nicole’s character, Whitney, was one of the main cheerleaders on the team with Torrance, played by Kirsten Dunst.
Born June 10, 1975 in Korea and raised in Tulsa, OK by her adoptive parents, Jim and Lois Bilderback, Nicole is also well known for her role as Summer in Clueless (1995), her recurring roles on television’s Dark Angel, Dawson’s Creek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.Nicole has also starred in hit shows as The Practice, Heroes, Without a Trace, House MD and Boston Legal.[photo sources: 1, 2, 3]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpd2s5zZw61qzvmrjo1_500.png)
Bring It On 2 DVD was released yesterday, but we are paying homage to the original movie whose cast includes Korean born Nicole Bilderback. Nicole’s character, Whitney, was one of the main cheerleaders on the team with Torrance, played by Kirsten Dunst.
Born June 10, 1975 in Korea and raised in Tulsa, OK by her adoptive parents, Jim and Lois Bilderback, Nicole is also well known for her role as Summer in Clueless (1995), her recurring roles on television’s Dark Angel, Dawson’s Creek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Nicole has also starred in hit shows as The Practice, Heroes, Without a Trace, House MD and Boston Legal.
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Cliff Curtis
was born July 27, 1968 in New Zealand and is of Maori (Polynesian ancestry) descent. Curtis next stars this Fall on NBC’s Trauma, an intense, action-packed television show about a San Francisco First Responder paramedics team traveling by land, sea, or air to rescue victims from the heights of the Transamerica Pyramid to the depths of the San Francisco Bay. The show premieres Monday, September 28, 2009 at 9/8c on NBC.
Curtis most recently starred in Push (2009), 10,000 BC (2008), Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and received his first major role with Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter in The Piano (1993).](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp93c4O0ow1qzvmrjo1_500.jpg)
was born July 27, 1968 in New Zealand and is of Maori (Polynesian ancestry) descent.
Curtis next stars this Fall on NBC’s Trauma, an intense, action-packed television show about a San Francisco First Responder paramedics team traveling by land, sea, or air to rescue victims from the heights of the Transamerica Pyramid to the depths of the San Francisco Bay. The show premieres Monday, September 28, 2009 at 9/8c on NBC.
Curtis most recently starred in Push (2009), 10,000 BC (2008), Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and received his first major role with Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter in The Piano (1993).
is an American Actress born in Coloane Island, Macau to Chinese parents on November 20, 1963. She next stars as Camille Wray in Syfy Channel’s upcoming Stargate Universe.
Ming-Na has had numerous roles, but is best known as Dr. Jing Mei Chen (2004) on NBC’s ER, as the main character voice of Mulan in all movies and videos made, and as June Woo in The Joy Luck Club (1993).
Ming-Na, whose credits have been without the surname “Wen” since the late 1990’s, moved to the U.S. as a child. She grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University, the same university that ER producer John Wells attended.
Syfy presents a two-hour premiere of Stargate Universe on Friday, October 2, 2009 at 9/8C.
[photo sources: Push premiere, Chrysallis, Teen Choice, Syfy]
Not only is this guy FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY, but HOT HOT HOT in the world of comedy. He’s popping up all over the place! ROCK on Ken!
Jeong is currently starring with Jeremy Piven in The Goods: Live Hard and Sell Hard and next appears with Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper in All About Steve, in theaters September 4th.
Jeong most recently played ransom demanding mobster guy who jumps out of a car trunk stark naked, Mr. Chow, in Hangover. Was an awesome surprise playing the Korean mafioso guy in Pineapple Express (“suck my ball two time!”), King Argotron in Role Models, and Allison Scott’s (Katherine Heigl’s) strict and sarcastic, perfectly condescending OB/GYN, Dr. Kuni, in Knocked Up.
Ken Jeong was born in 1969 to Korean immigrants who settled in North Carolina. Jeong graduated high school at 16, completed his undergrad at Duke, and obtained his medical degree from UNC-Chapell Hill. Jeong was urged by an NBC producer and an Improv founder to move to LA after seeing him perform and win the Big Easy Laff-Off in New Orleans where Jeong was completing his Internal Medicine residency. He made regular appearances at the Improv and the Laugh Factory.
Gabrielle Union and John Cho will play an engaged mixed ethnic couple in ABC’s FlashForward; which will provide a sufficiently intriguing storyline if writers incorporate the role that ethnicity plays in a relationship.
(Premieres September 23rd at 9:30 ET on ABC)
Here’s what Union had to say:
“The cultural differences with our families…in the middle of a recession…[and those] that come from different cultures and races and backgrounds, will definitely be explored,” Union said in an exclusive interview last week in Pasadena, Calif. “And, I love John.”
Everyone in the world blacks out for over 2 minutes and catches a glipmse of the future and their lives on April 29, 2010. The bulk of the 1st season sees the characters figuring out what will come true and whether they can alter the future they’ve seen. Union said her scenes with Cho focus on their relationship.[source]
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Stephanie Jacobsen is Lauren Yung on Melrose. Premieres on the CW Sept 8, 9/8C. 
