MING NA

Ming first won attention with her touching and critically acclaimed performance in Joy Luck Club. After four and a half seasons as Dr. Jing-Mei Chen on the hit NBC series ER, she recently became the first Asian American actress to lead a primetime network drama on NBC's Inconceivable. Born in Macau, Ming-Na and her family immigrated to New York City when she was 6. She fell in love with acting after her first stage experience in the third grade, and received the first contract role for an Asian-American actor in a daytime drama--as Lien Hughes on As the World Turns. Other credits: The George Lopez Show, Law and Order SVU, The Single Guy, Street Fighter and the voice of Disney's Mulan. Ming-Na formed Innovazion Records to produce and promote mainstream Asian-American music talent. She has been included in People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People, named one of the 100 Most Influential Asian Americans of the past decade by a Mazagine, and included into the Cammittee of 100.