Ming-Na Wen
Also Known As: Ming-Na, Ming Wen, Wen Ming-na, Μινγκ-Να Γουέν, 밍나 웬, Mingna Weng, Weng Mingna, 溫明娜, مینگ-نا ون, مینگ نا ون
Biography: Ming-Na Wen (Chinese: 溫明娜; born November 20, 1963) is an American actress and model. She has won multiple awards throughout her career, including an Annie Award and a Saturn Award, in addition to a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. She was honoured as a Disney Legend in 2019 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023. Wen's breakthrough role was as June Woo in The Joy Luck Club (1993). Other early successes include the role of Dr Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen in the medical drama series ER (1995–2004) and her voice role as Fa Mulan in the Walt Disney Animated Classic Mulan, as well as its sequel Mulan II, several video games and guest appearances in TV shows such as Sofia the First. Additionally, Wen made a cameo appearance in the live-action remake of Mulan (2020). Wen is well-known for playing agent Melinda May in the Marvel series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020) and has also appeared in the Star Wars franchise as the bounty hunter Fennec Shand, appearing in The Mandalorian (2019–2020) Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021, 2024), and The Book of Boba Fett (2021–2022). Other notable roles include Chun-Li in Street Fighter (1994), Detective Ellen Yin in The Batman (2004–2005), and Camile Wray in Stargate Universe (2009–2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ming-Na Wen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Coloane Island, Macau
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Overview: Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller Romance Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-02
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Mulan
Overview: To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-18
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Glitter & Doom
Overview: Serious musician Doom and free-spirited circus kid Glitter start a budding summer relationship filled with camping trips, late-night conversations, and plenty of song and dance. Their relationship is put to the test as they deal with trying to make it in the music biz, their mothers, and finding what feeds each of their souls and dreams.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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Street Fighter
Overview: Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Prom Night
Overview: Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-10
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Mulan II
Overview: Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in marriage. Before the two can have their happily ever after, the Emperor assigns them a secret mission, to escort three princesses to Chang'an, China. Mushu is determined to drive a wedge between the couple after he learns that he will lose his guardian job if Mulan marries into the Li family.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-03
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One Night Stand
Overview: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Push
Overview: After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-04
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The Joy Luck Club
Overview: Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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Parallel Man: Infinite Pursuit
Overview: Chased by commandos, Agent Nick Morgan is on the run in the multiverse! To escape, he jumps between parallel Earths including a polluted industrial hellscape, a planet where dinosaurs evolved into humanoids, and a fungi world with giant mushrooms.
Genres: Animation Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-18
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Pencils vs Pixels
Overview: A documentary told from the voices of the "second golden age" of animation in the 1990s and 2000s about the rise, fall and rise again of hand-drawn animation. They were trained by animation masters that created the principles of animation, they took animation to heights no one dreamed of - and then came the computer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-15
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Vanishing Son IV
Overview: After the death of his brother Wago, Jian-wa Chang now roams America's countryside while looking for his place in the world. He is hit by a van of two college students. Jian is taken in and nursed by Megan, a secluded artist. Jian is also befriended by the ghost of brother Wago. Wago must act as an angel to Jian-wa to gain acceptance into heaven. Meanwhile, the students from the hit and run plan to kill Jian-wa so he doesn't talk to the police.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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Super Cyclone
Overview: When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-18
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Hong Kong 97
Overview: Hong Kong 97 takes place in Hong Kong right before the transfer of power from Britain to China. Reginald Cameron, an assassin affiliated with a large corporation with interests in the colony, guns down key members of the Chinese envoy which will take charge of Hong Kong the next day. Suddenly, he becomes a target for every two-bit mercenary in the city. With the help of his company mentor, a clueless friend, and his ex-girlfriend, Cameron must unravel the motives behind his sudden target status and escape Hong Kong alive.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-09
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Terminal Voyage
Overview: It is 2035 A.D. and the final countdown has begun for a voyage that will reach across the vastness of outer space - to explore the nearest Earth-Like planet. An international crew has been placed in cryogenic suspended animation for the journey. But a century later, they awake to find that things have gone horribly wrong.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Teddy Bears' Picnic
Overview: In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-30
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The Darkness
Overview: A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-13
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Overview: A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-05
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April Rain
Overview: When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-04
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Breakdance Academy
Overview: In this hilarious send up of boybands, teen movies and dance movies, the audience gets a guarantee of something that will make you laugh. Whether it’s Mom remembering the days of N’Sync or little Lisa fantasizing about the Biebs or your sexually ambiguous nephew who thinks Channing rocks a sailor suit! Our story follows the sexy jock who decides he’s more than just a meathead women pine for and so Brad joins the dance club, a rap group, metal mania and more before creating the perfect boyband with the help of the local Zen master. Watch out, high-school will never be the same!!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-04
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Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 3 - Perfectly Princess
Overview: With the help of all the Disney Princesses, your child can learn how to "transform" herself into the fairy-tale princess she's always wanted to be. And while she discovers the secrets of becoming a princess, she'll sing, dance, and play along with her favorite characters as they perform their best-loved songs.
Genres: Animation Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-14
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Rain Without Thunder
Overview: This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-05
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From Legend To Life: The Making of Mulan
Overview: Go behind the scenes of Mulan, in glorious Low-Definition VHS. Originally recorded on VHS from Australian TV in 1998.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Overview: A look at the story behind Marvel Studios and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from all of the Marvel films, the Marvel One-Shots and "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."!
Genres: Documentary TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-18
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Karate Kid: Legends
Overview: After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City with his mother. When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competition – but his skills alone aren't enough. Li's kung fu teacher Mr. Han enlists original Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso for help, and Li learns a new way to fight, merging their two styles into one for the ultimate martial arts showdown.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-08
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Perfection
Overview: From infancy, an Asian American woman learns the game of perfection - but if your goal is perfection, will the game ever end?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-20
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When Star Wars Ruled the World
Overview: A VH1 television special wherein the cast discuss the making of the films and what made the franchise a phenomenon.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-18
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Vanishing Son II
Overview: The continuing saga of the Chang brothers: Jian-Wa and Wago. Picking up where it left off, Jian-Wa has left L.A. after a gangfight which involved his brother Wago. Jian-wa travels to the south and finds that hatred comes in all forms as a group of racist whites feud with harmless Vietnamese fishermen. Jian-wa decides to side with the Vietnamese and help them defend themselves. Back in Los Angeles, Wago is enjoying his new life as a gangster.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-23
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Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years
Overview: A full-length documentary that follows the history of Captain America from 1941 to present and explores how “Cap” has been a reflection of the changing times and the world he has existed in throughout the years. Fans will hear from various Marvel luminaries including Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Jeph Loeb, Louis D’Esposito, Chris Evans and Hayley Attwell, as well as family members of Cap’s creators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-19
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Declaration of Independence
Overview: Famous actors and actresses read the declaration of independence of the USA.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-10
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary - The Voices of Mulan II
Overview: Mushu the Dragon takes a quick look behind the scenes of Mulan's recording sessions, with interviews from several cast members.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-12
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Ralph Breaks the Internet
Overview: Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope's video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet — the netizens — to help navigate their way, including an entrepreneur named Yesss, who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site BuzzzTube.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-20
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Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors
Overview: When a threat no one could have expected bears down on the Marvel Universe, this ragtag, untrained band of teens have no choice but to rise together and prove to the world that sometimes the difference between a 'hero' and 'misfit' is just in the name.
Genres: Family Animation Action Comedy Science Fiction TV Movie Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-30
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Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron
Overview: Ironheart, AKA Riri Williams, is having difficulty adjusting to college life as the youngest student there when the college's engineering lab is demolished by an alien and her best friend is kidnapped. Inspired by Iron Man, she develops a plan to save her friend.
Genres: Animation Family Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Reflections on Ice: Michelle Kwan Skates to the Music of Disney's 'Mulan'
Overview: A retelling of the Disney film, 'Mulan (1998)', using animated clips and songs from the film, but this version was staged on ice.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-16
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Daughter of Shanghai
Overview: A documentary about the life of Tsai Chin, one of the first Chinese actresses to break into the West.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-07-02
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Tempting Fate
Overview: A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He goes and sees the woman he loves is still alive in that world and wants to stay. But when he discovers that this world has rules that differ from his world, he wants to leave but when he goes back to where the machine is, there's a fire and the machine is destroyed and the man who built it is killed. He later meets a woman from his world who also built a machine of her own but the officials there upon seeing her thinks she's crazy because her counterpart is alive and says she doesn't know her. So he tries to help her so that they can return home.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-05
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Blind Spot
Overview: Tragedy befalls Congresswoman Nell Harrington and her family when her son-in-law dies in a car accident, and Harrington's pregnant daughter, Phoebe, is propelled into a downward spiral. Things gets worse when Harrington learns that her son-in-law was on cocaine at the time of the accident, and her daughter was using right along with him. What does this mean for Harrington's impending Senate campaign -- and the health of Phoebe's unborn child?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-02
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Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
Overview: Filmed in part in front of a live audience at The New Amsterdam Theater in New York City, this Stan Lee tribute takes viewers on an action-packed journey throughout the life of Lee and across the Marvel Universe, sharing never-before-seen interviews and archive footage with Lee himself from deep within the Marvel and ABC News archives.
Genres: Documentary Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-20
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - Aki's Dream Reconstruction
Overview: A reconstructed edit of Aki's visions in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, presented in sequence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-21
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Mulan
Overview: When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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DC Showcase: The Losers
Overview: The legendary rag-tag team of World War II outcasts – Captain Storm, Johnny Cloud, “Mile-a Minute” Jones, rookie Gunner and Sarge – find themselves marooned on an uncharted island in the South Pacific that is completely overrun with dinosaurs! Their would-be ally on this deadly mission, the mysterious and beautiful Fan Long of the Chinese Security Agency, tells them their job is to rescue the scientists that have been sent to study the time/space anomaly. Perhaps… but what is her mission?
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-22
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Good Men
Overview: After the birth of his grandson, Bobby Roth undertakes a cinematic investigation as to what constitutes being a "good man" in today's world. This voyage of discovery leads him to interview more than fifty of his friends, both men and women who he considers to be "good people," about their views on everything from how they were parented to their thoughts on feminism, change, and regrets they might have. Their answers both surprises and enlighten both the viewers and Bobby, himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-04
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The Joy Luck Club 2
Overview: In the sequel, the mothers become grandmothers and the daughters become mothers in their own right, introducing a new generation exploring their own relationships with culture, heritage, love, womanhood and identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Disney Through The Decades
Overview: features a look through the different decades of the disney company with old footage hosted by Disney stars. appeared on the 2009 Blu-Ray release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), the final chapter was updated to include events that occurred after 2001. Segments featuring D.B. Sweeney from Dinosaur (2000) were replaced with new segments featuring John Ratzenberger from Pixar's films.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Sofia the First: Forever Royal
Overview: As Sofia, and her siblings Amber and James, prepare for their graduation from Royal Prep Academy, Sofia is called back to the Mystic Isles to face an evil witch named Vor, who is trying to take over the kingdom of Enchancia.
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-08
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