Asian-American Creators

An index of Asian-American creators and/or performers.

Asian-American, as defined by the United States Census, refers American people of South, Southeast and East Asian descent.

Also see Asian-American Media.

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Actors, Actresses, and Performers

Screen and Stage Actors A-G

Shohreh Aghdashloo
Daniella Alonso
Naveen Andrews (British actor born to Indian immigrant parents. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2010)
Aziz Ansari
Erick Avari
Reiko Aylesworth
Kimee Balmilero
Dante Basco
Catherine Bell
Chloe Bennet
Paris Berelc
Summer Bishil
Moon Bloodgood (born to an American Father and a Korean immigrant mother)
Lilan Bowden
Karan Brar
Isa Briones
Jon Jon Briones
Melody Butiu
Ross Butler
Dean Cain
Tia Carrere
Michael Paul Chan
Christina Chang (born in Taiwan to a Filipino father and an American mother and moved to the US at age 17)
Jennifer Chang
Rosalind Chao
François Chau
Joan Chen
Laura Kai Chen
Lynn Chen
John Cho
Jake Choi
Kenneth Choi
Marcus Chong
Rae Dawn Chong
Susan Chuang
Art Chudabala
Dennis Chun
Jamie Chung
Lana Condor
Michaela Conlin (born to a Chinese Mother and a father of Irish descent)
Nazneen Contractor
Eugene Cordero
Auli'i Cravalho
Darren Criss
Piper Curda
Mark Dacascos
Ian Anthony Dale (American actor born to a father of French/English descent and a Japanese mother who immigrated to the United States from Kobe, Japan)
Charles Michael Davis
Meg DeLacy
Joel de la Fuente
Dennis Dun
Tiffany Espensen
Parisa Fakhri
Karen Fukuhara
Tati Gabrielle
Kimiko Gelman
Kimiko Glenn
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Adrian Grenier
Arjun Gupta

Screen and Stage Actors H-O

Daniel Henney (Born to a Korean American mother and an Irish American father)
Amy Hill (Born to a Finnish-American father and a Japanese-American Mother)
James Hong
Kelly Hu
Vanessa Hudgens
Diana Lee Inosanto
Manu Intiraymi
Brittany Ishibashi
Erika Ishii
Daniel K. Isaac (His parents are immigrants from Korea)
Sakina Jaffrey
Ken Jeong
Malese Jow
Mindy Kaling
Daniel Dae Kim
Jacqueline Kim
Nicole Kang
Sung Kang
Tim Kang
Kim Yunjin
Archie Kao
Michelle Krusiec
Clyde Kusatsu
Nancy Kwan
Alex Landi (He is of Korean and Italian descent)
Liza Lapira
Christopher Larkin (born in South Korea and was adopted and raised in the US)
Katrina Law
Sharon Leal
Bobby Lee
Brandon Lee
Bruce Lee
CS Lee ^note
Jason Scott Lee
Nanrisa Lee
Peyton Elizabeth Lee
Reggie Lee
Rex Lee
Robinne Lee
Will Yun Lee
Ken Leung
Olivia Liang
Lucy Liu
Jodi Long
Jessica Lu
Tzi Ma
Ally Maki
Mako
Aarti Mann
Byron Mann
Karen Maruyama
Mercedes Mason^note
Steven R. McQueen
Charles Melton^note
Ruthie Ann Miles
Diane Mizota
Paolo Montalban
Pat Morita
Olivia Munn
Kumail Nanjiani
Haing S. Ngor
Julia Nickson
Sandra Oh^note
Masi Oka
Amy Okuda
Joy Osmanski

Screen and Stage Actors P-V

Ashley Park
Grace Park (migrated and grew up in Canada)
Linda Park (born in South Korea but raised in San Jose, California)
Randall Park
Sydney Park
Janel Parrish
Mizuo Peck
Nia Peeples
Kal Penn
Anna Maria Perez de Tagle
Lou Diamond Phillips
Ryan Potter
Danny Pudi
Lindsay Price
Maggie Q
Jonathan Ke Quan
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Sarah Ramos
Navi Rawat
Ernie Reyes Jr
Conrad Ricamora
Anthony Ruivivar
James Saito
Nichole Sakura
Christopher Sean
Yara Shahidi
Alia Shawkat
Sab Shimono
Robin Shou
Harry Shum Jr.
Tiya Sircar
Shannyn Sossamon
Booboo Stewart
Brenda Song
Hailee Steinfeld
Aya Sumika
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Faran Tahir
George Takei
Brian Tee
Gia Thanh
Jennifer Tilly
Meg Tilly
Tamlyn Tomita
Karrueche Tran
Kelly Marie Tran
Daisuke Tsuji (born in Kuwait, moved to Japan at age 2, and then to the US at age 8)
Miyoshi Umeki
Dilshad Vadsaria

Screen and Stage Actors W-Z

Garrett Wang
Ming-Na Wen
Zelda Williams
Anna May Wong
B.D. Wong
Michael Wong
Russell Wong
Constance Wu
Daniel Wu
Ping Wu
Robert Wu
Brian Yang
Jimmy O. Yang (born in Hong Kong but has lived in the US since he was thirteen)
Patti Yasutake
Steven Yeun
Aaron Yoo
Ryun Yu
Rick Yune
Necar Zadegan
Chelsea Zhang

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Artists

Authors and Writers

Authors

Playwrights

Qui Nguyen

Screenwriters

Adele Lim

Filmmakers

Directors

Journalists

Music

Musicians

2 Live Crew, Fresh Kid Ice was Chinese-American
2PM (Former member and breakout star Jay Park and Nichkhun are American citizens, Taecyeon was an expatriate in America for his formative years)
Abnormality, vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy is Indian-American
Alice in Chains, bassist Mike Inez is Filipino-American
Amerie
Awkwafina
Bif Naked
The Black Eyed Peas, Apl.de.ap is half-Filipino, originally from Angeles City
Danny Brown, part-Filipino
Bruno Mars, part-Filipino
Caroline
Crystal Kay
Dälek (producer Alap Momin)
Das Racist, Heems and Dapwell are Indian-American
Death Angel, the entire original lineup (now just Mark Osegueda and Rob Cavestany) was Filipino-American
Deftones, vocalist Chino Moreno is part-Chinese, while late bassist Chi Cheng was Chinese-American
Deltron 3030, producer Dan the Automator is Japanese-American
Dream Theater, bassist John Myung is Korean-American
Enrique Iglesias
Fort Minor, lead vocalist Mike Shinoda is Japanese-American
H.E.R.
iLoveMakonnen
Inferi, bassist Andrew Kim is Korean-American
Job for a Cowboy, founding guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju is Indian-American
Joji (Japanese-Australian expatriate)
Hayley Kiyoko
Kehlani
LCD Soundsystem, keyboardist/vocalist Nicole Whang
Linkin Park, co-vocalist and keyboardist Mike Shinoda is Japanese-American while synthesizer and turntablist Joe Hahn is Korean-American
Neal McCoy
Metallica, lead guitarist Kirk Hammett is part-Filipino
Nicole Scherzinger
Nicki Minaj
Mitski
Ne-Yo
Olivia
Yoko Ono
Shuggie Otis, who is Filipino-American through his mother.
The Pixies, lead guitarist Joey Santiago is Filipino-American, born in Manila
Olivia Rodrigo, half-Filipina
Smashing Pumpkins, guitarist James Iha is Japanese-American
Soundgarden, guitarist Kim Thayil is Indian-American with parents who came from Kerala, while founding bassist Hiro Yamamoto is Japanese-American
Thrice, guitarist Teppei Teranishi is Japanese-American
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (vocalist Karen O is a South Korean-born American)
Tiffany Young
Trivium, guitarist and vocalist Matt Heafy is half-Japanese
Utada Hikaru
Eddie and Alex van Halen, half-Indonesian.
Vienna Teng