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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).

Ming-Na

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]

Black and Asian deliberately paired in FlashForward

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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Ming-Na

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Black and Asian deliberately paired in FlashForward

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Dies in Battlestar, Resurrects on Melrose

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Lindsay Price, a witch?

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John Cho in September GQ reminds us that a flashback in fashion is a FlashForward in Style

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