Ke Huy Quan
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. 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.
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Ke Huy Quan

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- Name
- Ke Huy Quan
- Born
- 1970
- Birthplace
- Saigon, South Vietnam
- Education
- University of Southern California (BFA)
- Awards
- Full list
- Occupation
- * Actor
- Spouse
- Echo Quan
- Nationality
- United States · South Vietnam
- Known for
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · The Goonies · Everything Everywhere All at Once · Zootopia 2
- Honours
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture · Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role · Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Languages
- English · Cantonese · Vietnamese
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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. 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.
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Biography
Biography
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. Quan has since starred in the second season of the Disney+ series Loki and in the animated films Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) and Zootopia 2 (2025).
Ke Huy Quan studied at University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts and Alhambra High School. The recorded working language is English, Cantonese and Vietnamese. Residence is recorded at Alhambra and Woodland Hills. Works named in the authority record are Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Goonies, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Zootopia 2. Distinctions recorded are Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Ke Huy Quan at the Goonies Panel, 2019 Fan Expo Toronto
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Ke Huy Quan at the Goonies Panel, 2019 Fan Expo Toronto
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Ke Huy Quan • Born — 1970 • Birthplace — Saigon, South Vietnam • Citizenship — United States • Education — University of Southern California (BFA) • Awards — Full list • Occupation — * Actor • stunt coordinator • assistant director • Spouse — Echo Quan • Other Names — * Jonathan Ke Quan • Jonathan Quan • Years Active — 1984–2002; 2021–present
Early life
Early life
Quan was born in 1970 into a family of ethnic Chinese in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The family emigrated three years after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Quan, along with his father and five siblings, went to Hong Kong, while his mother and three other siblings went to Malaysia. After staying at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, the entire family was admitted to the United States as part of the Refugee Admissions Program in 1979. Quan grew up in California and attended the Mount Gleason Junior High School in Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, and Alhambra High School in Alhambra.
1984–1999: Early career
1984–1999: Early career
Quan became a child actor at age 13, starring as Harrison Ford's 12-year-old sidekick Short Round in the Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984. The casting director auditioned a number of children at Castelar Elementary School, including Quan's younger brother. He described the role as "one of the happiest times of my life". For his performance, he was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. In 1985, Quan co-starred in The Goonies as a member of the eponymous group of children, the inventor Richard "Data" Wang. He played a pickpocket orphan in the 1986 Taiwanese movie It Takes a Thief. In 1987, he appeared in the Japanese movie Passengers (Passenjā Sugisarishi Hibi) with the Japanese idol singer Minako Honda. He played Sam on the short-lived TV series Together We Stand (1986–1987) and played Jasper Kwong in the sitcom Head of the Class from 1990 to 1991. In 1991, he starred in the movie Breathing Fire, and had a small role in Encino Man the following year. He played the starring role in the 1993 Mandarin-language Taiwan TV show Eunuch & Carpenter, which ran for forty episodes. He also starred in the 1996 Hong Kong-Vietnam co-production Red Pirate. He studied Taekwondo under Philip Tan on the set of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and later trained under Tan Tao-liang.
2000–2020: Acting sabbatical and other work
2000–2020: Acting sabbatical and other work
As an adult, Quan found it difficult to find acting work in the United States. He eventually quit acting and enrolled in the film program at the University of Southern California. During his time there, he edited a comedy horror short film titled Voodoo alongside his friend and fellow student Gregg Bishop, who directed the film. Voodoo won the Audience Award at the 2000 Slamdance Film Festival, and continues to be shown to USC students to this day. After graduating from USC, Quan was asked by Corey Yuen to go to Toronto, Ontario, to help choreograph fighting sequences in X-Men (2000). For the next decade, he worked behind the scenes on various productions in Asia and the United States. He again helped Yuen as a stunt choreographer for The One (2001). Quan worked as assistant director on Wong Kar-wai's 2046 (2004).
2021–present: Return to acting
2021–present: Return to acting
• Illustration — Sean Astin, Quan, and Corey Feldman at The Goonies panel, 2019 Fan Expo Toronto Quan was inspired to return to acting following the success of Crazy Rich Asians in 2018. In 2019, he was cast in a supporting role in the Netflix film Finding ʻOhana, released in 2021. Quan approached director Jude Weng after overhearing her describing the film as The Goonies meets Indiana Jones, in both of which Quan had appeared. That same year, the filmmaking duo Daniels began casting for their film Everything Everywhere All at Once. They struggled to cast an actor in the role of Waymond Wang, a character who would appear in three different incarnations of the film. Co-director Daniel Kwan stumbled upon Quan on Twitter. Two weeks after getting a talent agent, Quan received a call to audition for the film. In January 2020, Quan was announced as a cast member of Everything Everywhere All at Once. The film was released in March 2022 to overwhelming acclaim, becoming the most-awarded film of all time, with Quan's performance receiving near unanimous praise and media attention, eventually leading to him winning a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for his role. The Screen Actors Guild Award win made him the first Asian man to win any individual category at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, with his win of the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. He was the first Vietnamese-American actor to be nominated in that category. Quan is one of two actors of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the other being Haing S. Ngor in 1985, and is the first Vietnamese-born actor to win an Academy Award. • Illustration — President Joe Biden and Quan at the White House in 2023 In February 2022, it was announced that he had joined the cast of the TV adaptation of American Born Chinese for Disney+, which was subsequently released in May 2023. In September 2022, Quan was announced to have joined the cast for the second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki for Disney+, which premiered on October 6, 2023. For his performance he received a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series nomination. In June 2023, it was announced that he had been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an actor. He had a voice role in Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024). Quan has later then starred in a leading role in Love Hurts (2025), and starred in The Electric State, alongside Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. He voiced Gary De'Snake in Zootopia 2 (2025), and will voice the character again in Zootopia 3.
Personal life
Personal life
Quan is of Han Chinese ancestry from the Hoa ethnic minority group of Vietnam. He is a Buddhist. He speaks English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Quan is married to Echo Quan, who served as the on-set interpreter for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and resides in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Quan holds a second-degree black belt in taekwondo; he started taking classes after learning from a taekwondo instructor for his role in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He remains close friends with his Goonies co-star Jeff Cohen, who is also Quan's entertainment lawyer and helped Quan negotiate his contract to star in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Other credits
Other credits
• Year — Title — Role • 2000 — X-Men — Assistant fight choreographer, translator • 2001 — The One — Assistant action choreography director • 2004 — 2046 — Assistant director
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1986–1987 — Together We Stand — Sam Randall — 19 episodes • 1990–1991 — Head of the Class — Jasper Kwong — Main cast (seasons 4–5) • 1991 — Tales from the Crypt — Josh — Episode: "Undertaking Palor" • 1993 — Eunuch & Carpenter — Ba Dajia — Main role; 40 episodes • 2023 — American Born Chinese — Jamie Yao / Freddy Wong — Main role • Loki — Ouroboros "OB" / A.D. Doug — Season 2; Main role • 2025 — The White Lotus — Kenneth "Kenny" Nguyen — Episode: "Special Treatments"; voice only, uncredited
Accolades
Accolades
In 2023, Quan won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor, for his role in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). He was the first Asian man to win any individual category at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for the same role, as well as the first Vietnamese-American actor to be nominated in the supporting category. In 2023, Quan was an honoree of the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Great Immigrant Award.
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Film
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1984 — Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom — Short Round • 1985 — The Goonies — Richard "Data" Wang • 1986 — It Takes a Thief — Little Guan • 1987 — Passenger — Rick • 1991 — Breathing Fire — Charlie Moore • 1992 — Encino Man — Kim • 1996 — Red Pirate — Kwan Chia Chiang • 2002 — Second Time Around — Sing Wong • 2021 — Finding ʻOhana — George Phan • 2022 — Everything Everywhere All at Once — Waymond Wang • 2024 — Kung Fu Panda 4 — Han (voice) • 2025 — Love Hurts — Marvin Gable • The Electric State — Dr. Clark Amherst / P.C. (voice) • Zootopia 2 — Gary De'Snake (voice) • 2026 — Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender — Avatar Xian (voice)
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- 2.蕭采薇. 獨/季芹17歲第一個緋聞對象是他! 關繼威:看到她現在很幸福. ETtoday. April 22, 2022.
- 3.Jonathan Head, Tran Vo. 奥斯卡金像奖:越南为何不愿认可创下历史的关继威?. BBC.
- 4.W Magazine. Ke Huy Quan, Oscar-winning actor, on Reuniting With Harrison Ford & 'EEAAO' W Magazine. YouTube. 13 March 2023.
- 5.WIRED. Ke Huy Quan Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions WIRED. YouTube. 13 March 2025.
- 6.Time 100. Time. April 13, 2023.
- 7.Ke Huy Quan. Armchair Expert. July 15, 2024.
- 8.Head, Jonathan. Why Vietnam doesn't want to claim Ke Huy Quan. 15 March 2023.
- 9.Youngs, Ian. Ke Huy Quan: From forgotten child star of Indiana Jones and The Goonies to Oscars hero. BBC. March 13, 2023.
- 10.Tamagawa, Emiko. Actor Ke Huy Quan returns in front of the camera in 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once'. WBUR-FM. April 8, 2022.
- 11.Bedigan, Mike. Ke Huy Quan's triumphant return to the world of mainstream acting. Yahoo! News. March 13, 2023.
- 12.Lee, Ann. 'I didn't have a single audition for a year': Goonies and Indiana Jones child star Ke Huy Quan on finding fame again. The Guardian. November 14, 2022.
- 13.Ke Huy Quan. Empire.
- 14.Canby, Vincent. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The New York Times. May 23, 1984.
- 15.Ebiri, Bilge. In Another Life, Ke Huy Quan Was a Star. Vulture. March 11, 2022.
- 16.Past Saturn Awards. 2009-02-11.
- 17.Ke Huy Quan's True Hollywood Comeback. Vanity Fair. 2022-12-06.
- 18.Nick Mamatas. 10 reasons we still love The Goonies 25 years later. Syfy Wire. December 14, 2012.
- 19.Ito, Robert. Ke Huy Quan: From Short Round to Romantic Lead in Just Four Long Decades. The New York Times. April 5, 2022. 0362-4331.
- 20.Collis, Clark. What Short Round did next: The strange journeys of Ke Huy Quan. Entertainment Weekly. February 24, 2022.
- 21.Wampler, Scott. Wanna See Oscar-Winner Ke Huy Quan's Award-Winning Horror Short, VOODOO?. Fangoria. March 13, 2023.
- 22.The kid from Indiana Jones: What does he look like now?. Now. August 8, 2015.
- 23.McEvoy, Colin. Oscar Frontrunner Ke Huy Quan Had Quit Acting for Good. Crazy Rich Asians Brought Him Back. Biography.com. March 8, 2023.
- 24.Kroll, Justin. 'Young Sheldon' Director's Feature Debut 'Finding Ohana' Lands at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE). Variety. September 30, 2019.
- 25.Fleming, Mike Jr. A24 Reunites With 'Swiss Army Man' Directors; Finance & Distribute AGBO's 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'. Deadline. January 23, 2020.
- 26.'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Makes History as the Most-Awarded Film Ever. Hypebeast. 2023-03-12.
- 27.Dresden, Hilton. "Look At Us Now": 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Cast Celebrates Asian Talent with SAG Awards win. The Hollywood Reporter. February 26, 2023.
- 28.Thomas, Carly. Michelle Yeoh Makes History with SAG Awards win: "This is for Every Single Girl That Looks Like Me". The Hollywood Reporter. February 26, 2023.
- 29.Dresden, Hilton. Ke Huy Quan Makes History with SAG Award win: "This Moment Belongs to Everyone Who Has Asked for Change". The Hollywood Reporter. February 26, 2023.
- 30.Rosenbloom, Alli. Ke Huy Quan makes history with SAG award win for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'. CNN. February 27, 2023.
- 31.Ordaña, Michael. Here are the 2023 Oscar nominees. Los Angeles Times. January 24, 2023.
- 32.'We're very proud': Ke Huy Quan's Oscar win is huge for Asian community, his family in Houston says. ABC13 Houston. March 13, 2023.
- 33.Otterson, Joe. Michelle Yeoh Among Eight Cast in Disney Plus Series 'American Born Chinese'. Variety. February 7, 2022.
- 34.'American Born Chinese': Release Date, Cast, Plot, and Everything You Need to Know. Collider. 2023-02-18.
- 35.White, Peter. 'Loki': Ke Huy Quan Joins Season 2 of Marvel Series - Deadline. Deadline. September 10, 2022.
- 36.Vary, Adam B. Marvel Sets Premiere Dates for 'Loki' Season 2, 'Echo' on Disney+. Variety. 2023-05-16.
- 37.Sciences, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and. The Academy Invites 398 New Members for 2023: See the Full List. A.frame.
- 38.Sachdeva, Maanya. Kung Fu Panda fans praise 'legendary' new villain as trailer for fourth film released. The Independent. December 13, 2023.
- 39.N. Ke Huy Quan is still proving he's good enough. NPR. 2025-02-06.
- 40.Writer, JAKE COYLE AP Film. 'It's fate.' 40 years later, Ke Huy Quan is a star, again. Sentinel Colorado. 2022-12-09.
- 41.Davis, Clayton. Ke Huy Quan, Comeback Kid: The Oscar Winner on 'Everything Everywhere,' Kissing Harrison Ford and Why He's Worried About What Comes Next. Variety. 2023-03-15.
- 42.WIRED. Ke Huy Quan Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions WIRED. 2025-03-13.
- 43.Who is Ke Huy Quan's Wife? All About Echo Quan.
- 44.Archived copy.
- 45.Gearan, Hannah. Kung Fu Panda 4 Synopsis Revealed As Two Oscar-Winners Join Voice Cast. ScreenRant. 2023-12-12.
- 46.Grobar, Matt. Ke Huy Quan Set For Uni Actioner 'With Love' From 87North. Deadline. 2024-01-04.
- 47.Campione, Katie. 'Zootopia 2': Ke Huy Quan Joins Cast Of Upcoming Animated Sequel. Deadline Hollywood. August 9, 2024.
- 48.McClintock, Pamela. 'Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender' Will Skip Theaters and Debut on Paramount+ Alongside New 'Safe Havens' Series (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter. December 23, 2025.
- 49.Fleming, Mike Jr. 'Shang-Chi's Michelle Yeoh & Destin Daniel Cretton Reunite For Disney+ Series 'American Born Chinese;' Chin Han, Yeo Yann Yann & Daniel Wu Also Star. February 7, 2022.
- 50.Gomez, Dessi. Who Is The Mysterious Caller In 'The White Lotus' Season 3 Episode 2?. Deadline Hollywood. February 23, 2025.
- 51.Globes, Golden. Ke Huy Quan Golden Globes. Golden Globe Awards. December 12, 2022.
- 52.Ordoña, Michael. Here are the 2023 Oscar nominees: live updates. Los Angeles Times. January 24, 2023.
- 53.Pedro Pascal and World Bank's Ajay Banga among those named to Carnegie's 2023 Great Immigrants list. AP News. 2023-06-28.
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