Ke Huy Quan
Birthplace: Ho Chi Minh City
Born: 1971-08-20
Occupations recorded in source
actor; assistant director; film actor; stunt coordinator; taekwondo athlete
Biography from Wikipedia
Ke Huy Quan (/ˌkiː.hwiː.ˈkwɑːn/ KEE-hwee-KWAHN; Vietnamese: Quan Kế Huy; born 1970), also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is an American actor. His accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a BAFTA Award. Time magazine named Quan one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.
Born in South Vietnam, Quan and his family were admitted to the United States as part of the Refugee Admissions Program. As a child actor, he rose to fame playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Richard "Data" Wang in The Goonies (1985). Following a few roles as a young adult in the 1990s, including as Jasper Kwong in the fourth and fifth seasons of ABC sitcom Head of the Class, Quan took a 19-year acting hiatus, during which he worked as a stunt choreographer and assistant director.
Quan returned to acting with the Netflix film Finding ʻOhana (2021), followed by the critically acclaimed Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), a performance that won him various accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Academy Award and one of only two actors of Asian descent to win Best Supporting Actor, following Haing S. Ngor. Quan has since starred in the second season of the Disney+ series Loki (2023), and in the animated films Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) and Zootopia 2 (2025).
Sources & attribution
Wikidata · revision
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Wikipedia · revision 1379036459
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- Love Hurts (2025) — Marvin Gable
- The Electric State (2025) — Dr. Amherst
- Zootopia 2 (2025) — Gary De'Snake
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — Waymond Wang
- Breathing Fire (1991) — Charlie Moore
- The Goonies (1985) — Data
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) — Short Round
Frequent collaborators
Shared films in this catalogue.
- Jenny Slate · 2 films
- Sean Astin · 2 films
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.
