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September 4, 2020. By Emma McIntyre/Getty Images. Tzi Ma remembers what the job was like before, back when Asian-centered projects in Hollywood were not just sporadic but nonexistent, and the best ...
Tzi Ma (Chinese: 馬泰; born June 10, 1962 [dubious – discuss]) is a Hong Kong-American actor. He has appeared in television shows including The Man in the High Castle and 24 , and films including Dante's Peak , Rush Hour , Rush Hour 3 , Arrival , The Farewell , Tigertail , and Mulan .
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Tzi Ma. Actor: Rush Hour. For over four decades, Tzi Ma (pronounced "TIE MA") has blazed new trails for the representation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in Hollywood with a groundbreaking career that encompasses virtually every genre across film, television and theater.
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- Hong Kong, China
Apr 10, 2020 · As the youngest of seven children, Ma found another father figure in a brother 18 years his senior who, with the move, left behind a promising career in architecture.
- Cocaine Cowboys
- The Cosby Show
- The Quiet American
- The Ladykillers
- The Farewell
- Tigertail
- Kung Fu
- Connection to Mulan
Ma made his on-screen debut with Cocaine Cowboys, a crime drama about a rock band that smuggles cocaine. Though his role as Jimmy Lee was small, Ma has fond memories of hanging out with co-stars Warhol and Jack Palance. Plus, the hijinks that occurred behind the scenes might've been more exciting than the actual movie, Ma adds, as the local authori...
Ma has appeared on a slew of television shows and looking back, Ma says his first TV appearance playing Mr. Lee on The Cosby Showmade strides in Asian American representation. "I have to give that show all the credit, they gave me a character who was an ex-Marine working on the pipeline," he recounts. "Because you never see an Asian American face a...
Directed by Philip Noyce, The Quiet American was adapted from Graham Greene's novel of the same name. The film, set in 1952, was about early American involvement in the Vietnam War and starred Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Vietnamese actress Do Thi Hai Yen. Ma, who portrayed Hinh, the assistant of Caine's Thomas Fowler, said the film gave him the chan...
Ma counts Joel and Ethan Coen as two of his favorite directors he's worked with, given how much they involve the actors on their projects. In the duo's 2004 black comedy The Ladykillers, Ma starred alongside Hanks, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, and more as a group of robbers. "The fellas are terrific and confident to include the entire cast for ever...
Lulu Wang's critically acclaimed film The Farewellnot only marked a breakout performance for its star Awkwafina but also allowed Ma to shine as her character's father. Again, Ma got to meet the real-life star of one of his films, and this time it was Wang's nainai (paternal grandma), whose unbelievable-yet-true experience of being kept in the dark ...
In his directorial film debut Tigertail, writer Alan Yang tells a tale based on his father'sexperience immigrating to the United States from Taiwan, with Ma playing the older version of his father. "His courage of telling his family story to share this with the world, I think it's just remarkable," Ma says. "It's a love story, a love letter to our ...
A reimagining of the 1970s show, the CW series features Ma as Jin Shen, the father of Olivia Liang's Nicky Shen, who takes up the Shaolin mantle to fight off evil forces in San Francisco. Kung Fu is led by Christina M. Kim, and it's the first time in Ma's career that he's worked with an Asian American female showrunner. Moreover, "I have never seen...
Ma likens his Kung Fu role to a "Mulan dad, 3000 years later," as both of his characters are supportive fathers with daughters skilled in martial arts. "He really believes in his daughter's abilities. He didn't say 'I have a daughter,' in Mulan he says, 'I am blessedwith two daughters,'" Ma remarks, referencing his appearance as Mulan's father Hua ...
Sep 4, 2020 · Although Ma could not have anticipated starring in a major film during his early career as a young theatre actor in New York City in the 1970s and ‘80s (in 1979, he made a brief foray into ...
Oct 24, 2016 · In his 20-year career, the 54-year-old Ma has seen the landscape for Asian American actors change, as substantive roles are now replacing shallow and one-dimensional ones. He now appears in one of the year's biggest blockbusters, the sci-fi thriller Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, and Jeremy Renner.
