14. Ming-Na Wen

A true icon joins us this week - one of the most enduring Asian-American actresses of the last thirty plus years, but let’s focus on what she has been doing in her 50’s and now 60’s - early 50’s she was one of the longest-running female leads on a Marvel show: Agents of Shield, around 55 Began publicly arguing for the “Tom Cruise effect” — that women, especially women of color, deserve long careers built on craft, not age, the first asian woman to be designated a Disney Legend at 56, rolled right into the assassin Fennec Shand across The Mandalorian/Star Wars franchise, got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 59, and at 62 she has not slowed down: played the mother in Karate Kid: Legends, became the new voice of Gwen Ling on American Dad, joined Percy Jackson as the matriarch Hera, has 3 indie features: Better Life, Whatcha Want and Persephone in the wings and is publishing her first cookbook Have You Eaten Yet?: Family Recipes from a Restaurant Daughter which drops in October. we have so much to talk about,so give a listen to the amazing Ming Na Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices