Birth nameMing-Na Wen Birth information20 November 1963, Coloane Island, Macau BioMing-Na (translated her name means "enlightenment") was born on the island of Macau, a Portuguese territory located 40 miles from Hong Kong that was returned to China in 1999. Her mother Lin Chan Wen divorced her father when Ming-Na was only a toddler. She has an older brother named Jonathan. After the divorce, they moved to Hong Kong where her mother became a nurse. There her mother met Soo Lim Yee, a Chinese-American businessman. They soon married and at age 4, Ming-Na moved with her family to Queens, New York. Five years later, they transferred to Yee's hometown of Pittsburgh where his family runs the Chinatown Inn restaurant. Jonathan and half-brother, Leong, now manage this restaurant. Struggling to fit in at school, she changed her name to Maggie & Doris. She found a love for acting while appearing in a third grade Easter play, where she played a "klutzy" bunny. Her mother was not excited about her desire to pursue acting, She preferred that she go into medicine. Nonetheless, Ming-Na graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in theater. She got her first acting job in 1988 on the soap "As the World Turns" (1956). Her big break came when she was cast in The Joy Luck Club (1993). When she needed a ride to the premiere of the film, her acting instructor sent one of his students, Eric Michael Zee. The two started dating in 1994 after Ming-Na moved permanently to LA and married in 1995. Ming-Na dropped her last name, Wen, at that time. She says she is now like Ann-Margret. Zee is a screenwriter and, with Ming-Na, manages At Last, an Asian boy band.

With well over 100,000 confirmed dead, millions injured or displaced and untold others missing, the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti is unquestionably one of the largest natural disasters in modern history.
Some of the hardest hit by the tragedy are those least equipped to handle its dangerous aftermath; An estimated 380,000 children were orphans beforehand according to Unicef, and scores more have been rendered just that as a result of the 7.0 quake.
With their needs in mind, Jayneoni Moore hosted the Playdate for Haiti last week at The Playroom in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Co-sponsored by the Jayneoni Moore Children’s Fund, Project Nursery, »
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You can bring home the latest sci-fi series in the Stargate world on DVD and Blu-ray next month. Stargate Universe will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 9. The standard three-disc DVD set will be priced at $49.98 Srp and the two-disc Bd set will run for $69.98 Srp and you can take a look at the cover art and huge special feature selection below. The series stars Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Robert Carlyle, Brian J. Smith, David Blue, Jamil Walker Smith, Ming-Na, Lou Diamond Phillips, Louis Ferreira, Alaina Huffman and Elyse Levesque. "Sgu" is the story of a group of soldiers, scientists and civilians, fleeing an attack, finding themselves stranded billions of miles from Earth on an Ancient ship known as the Destiny. Locked on an unknown course, they must fight to survive and find a way home. The danger, adventure and hope they find on board the Destiny »

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NBC Universal talent including Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams, Zachary Levi, Masi Oka, Mark Feuerstein and Ming-Na will take part in the new season of the company's Emmy-winning "The More You Know" public service campaign.
The new season from the network that's home to "The Biggest Loser" focuses on health, in an effort to help Americans adapt and maintain healthier lifestyles.
The multiplatform program, which will be co-branded with Ge's "Healthymagination" initiative, will focus on such critical health issues as diabetes, heart disease, stroke pre »
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