Who was last Asian you saw as a lead Movie actor? (Not Chan)?!
Question: Jet Li in that Dragon movie...I forgot the name
Answers: Jet Li in that Dragon movie...I forgot the name
Jet Li.
Michelle Yeo....very sexy
Lucy Liu in the charlie's angels series? I guess that should count
harold and kumar escape from guantanamo bay !!!!
Richard Geer, and he's starred in a lot of movies.
chow yun phat and that Thai guy from Ong Bak
did someone say Richard Geer??? HA!
Jet Li
John Lone
Dean Cain
Dennis Dun
Will Yun Lee
James Hong
James Duval
James Shigeta
Mark Dacascos
Jason Scott Lee
Gedde Watanabe
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Chow Yun Fat aka Yun-Fat Chow
Mark-Paul Gosselaar~He might not appear to be, but his mother is Indonesian.
Noriyuki (Pat) Morita~He is deceased, but I have to list a man I have been a fan of for decades, back to the days when he was a standup comic!
Victor Wong~He, too, is deceased, but I enjoyed his work so much. I wonder how many films he was in with James Hong.
Sorry for being chauvinistic. I should list some females, too, shouldn't I?
Lucy Liu
Ziyi Zhang
Vivian Wu
Joan Chen
Michelle Yeoh
Tamlyn Tomita
Rosalind Chao
Nobu McCarthy
Jennifer and Meg Tilly
Vanessa Anne Hudgens
Ming Na aka Ming-Na Wen
I know that I'm forgetting some, but it's nearly 2:30 a.m., and my brain is telling me it's bedtime. *sigh* It's tricky when you say "lead" because I tune in to watch most of these actors even if they aren't the lead. For me, my favorites are the reason I watch. For example, Richard Lynch or Billy Drago might play a minor character, but I'll watch the film for them not most leading actors. Does that make sense? For me, if Mark Dacascos is in a film, HE is who I'm tuning in for!
I cheated a bit on my lists so that I could name some other favorites, such as Will Yun Lee. He's the only reason I watched "Bionic Woman" as long as I did! Otherwise, the show was worthless to me. I became a fan of his through "Witchblade", the short-lived series starring Yancy Butler.
It was Tony Leung in Lust, Caution. But if you're talking about Hollywood or mainstream movies...I actually can't remember.
Outside of Asia, Asians tend to be cast in supporting parts rather than leads. It's easier for half- or part-Asian actors to be 'famous' than full Asians, e.g., Keanu Reeves, Ben Kingsley, etc.
BTW The new movie "21" has some controversy because the real-life students are all Asian, but I think they are all (?) played by Caucasian actors in the movie.
i watched warlords.. so andy jet and takaeshi