Laurence John Fishburne III is an American actor. Throughout his career,he has gained recognition for his roles on stage and screen,and militant and authoritative characters. He gained popularity after appearing in the films Apocalypse Now (1979) and Boyz n the Hood (1991) and later on became known for his roles in The Matrix franchise (1999–2003) and the John Wick film series (2017–present).
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director,screenwriter,producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989),and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Oliver Rutledge Hudson is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Adam Rhodes in the CBS comedy series Rules of Engagement (2007–2013),Jeff Fordham on the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2013–2015) and Wes Gardner in the Fox horror comedy Scream Queens. He appeared as one of the main cast members of the ABC sitcom Splitting Up Together,produced by Ellen DeGeneres. In 2022,he played FBI agent Garrett Miller in Fox's The Cleaning Lady.
Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia is a Taiwanese actress. She is regarded as an icon of Chinese language cinema for her extensive and varied roles in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films.
Jeff Yang is an American writer,journalist,businessman,and business/media consultant who writes the Tao Jones column for The Wall Street Journal. Previously,he was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is an expert on Asian American pop culture and is the co-author of RISE:A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now (2022) with Philip Wang and Phil Yu and The Golden Screen:The Movies That Made Asian America (2023).
Randall Park is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as Louis Huang in the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020),for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016 and for IKEA Heights,a web series.
Constance Wu is an American actress. Wu's breakthrough came with the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020),which earned her four nominations at the Critics' Choice Television Awards. For leading the romantic comedy-drama film Crazy Rich Asians (2018),she became the fourth Asian to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture –Musical or Comedy.
Edwyn Charles Huang is an American author,chef,restaurateur,food personality,producer,and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus,a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously hosted Huang's World for Viceland. His autobiography,Fresh Off the Boat:A Memoir,was adapted into the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat,of which he narrated the first season.
Nahnatchka Khan is an American television writer and producer. She created and executive produced the ABC comedy series Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2012–2013) and Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020),the NBC comedy series Young Rock (2021–2023),and the Peacock series Laid. She also directed the streaming films Always Be My Maybe (2019) and Totally Killer (2023).
Fresh Off the Boat:A Memoir is an autobiography by American food personality Eddie Huang. It was published in 2013 by Spiegel &Grau,an imprint of Random House. The book relates Huang's early life and rise in the food celebrity scene in New York City,and his relationship with his Asian American background.
Fresh Off the Boat is an American television sitcom created by Nahnatchka Khan and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. It is loosely inspired by the life of chef and food personality Eddie Huang and his 2013 autobiography of the same name. Huang also executive produced the series and narrated its first season. Depicting the life of a Taiwanese-American family in Florida in the 1990s,the series stars Randall Park,Constance Wu,Hudson Yang,Forrest Wheeler,Ian Chen,and Lucille Soong as the Huang family as well as Chelsey Crisp and Ray Wise portraying the family's next-door neighbors.
American television series with Asian leads/co-leads means a scripted American television series that features an actor of Asian ancestry as the series' leading actor portraying the series' protagonist or a main character. One of the earliest examples dates back to 1951 with Anna May Wong,a classic Hollywood-era movie star,with her TV show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong. Typically,the characters portrayed are Asian American,although the actor or actress may sometimes be Canadian,British,or Australian.
Albert Tsai is an American actor. He is known for starring as Fred on the Disney Channel comedy series Coop &Cami Ask the World and as Bert Harrison on ABC’s Trophy Wife from 2013 to 2014. Tsai has also made recurring guest appearances as Phillip Goldstein in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat. In 2014,at the age of nine,he earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination from the Critics' Choice Television Awards for his performance on ABC’s comedy series Trophy Wife. In 2015,Tsai was named one of Entertainment Weekly's 12 Best Child Actors of 2015 for his work on Dr. Ken. In 2019,Tsai starred as Peng in the DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio animated feature film Abominable,released by Universal Pictures on September 27,2019.
Forrest Wheeler is an American actor. In 2014,he was cast as Emery Huang,a series regular on the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat.
The Osaka Asian Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Osaka City,Osaka Prefecture,Japan in March. The festival began in 2005 and currently introduces Asian films.
The first season of Fresh Off the Boat,an American sitcom created by Nahnatchka Khan and produced by 20th Century Fox Television,premiered in the United States on ABC on February 4,2015,and concluded on April 21,2015. The season consisted of 13 episodes.
The second season of Fresh Off the Boat,an American sitcom created by Nahnatchka Khan and produced by 20th Century Fox Television,premiered in the United States on ABC on September 22,2015,and concluded on May 24,2016. The season consisted of 24 episodes.
Events from the year 2023 in Taiwan,Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 112 according to the official Republic of China calendar.
