One recent example is Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). In the Marvel film, Filipino-American actor Jacob Batalon plays Peter Parker’s friend Ned, a nerdy Asian boy who is a science and tech prodigy.

Head writer Tony Oliver claimed he never connected the dots about the stereotypes until his assistant “pointed it out in a ...

He began his acting career as a young man in the late 1950s, moving through the limited voiceover, dubbing and television bit part opportunities made available to Asian-American actors at the time.

These incidents are hardly a recent phenomenon. The actor Lucy Liu, who spoke to Asia Society last year as part of an interview series in celebration of Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month, ...

he was one of the few East Asian faces on American TV. Seventeen years later, the actor has his first lead role, in the second season of National Geographic's reality-based series, The Hot Zone ...

Walter Emanuel Jones played Zack Taylor, the Black Ranger, and Thuy Trang played Trini Kwan, the Yellow Ranger ...