John Cho

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1972 age 0

   Born

2. 1997 age 25

   CreditWag the Dog

3. 1999 age 27

   CreditAmerican Beauty

   CreditAmerican Pie

4. 2001 age 29

   CreditAmerican Pie 2

   CreditEvolution

5. 2002 age 30

   CreditSolaris

6. 2003 age 31

   CreditAmerican Wedding

7. 2004 age 32

   CreditHarold & Kumar Go to White Castle

8. 2008 age 36

   CreditHarold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

9. 2009 age 37

   CreditStar Trek

10. 2012 age 40

    CreditAmerican Reunion

    CreditTotal Recall

11. 2013 age 41

    CreditIdentity Thief

    CreditStar Trek Into Darkness

12. 2016 age 44

    CreditStar Trek Beyond

• ETEddie Kaye Thomas6 titles
• KPKal Penn5 titles
• AHAlyson Hannigan5 titles
• SSSeann William Scott5 titles
• MCMolly Cheek5 titles
• JMJennifer Morrison4 titles
• NHNeil Patrick Harris4 titles
• MSMena Suvari4 titles
• TNThomas Ian Nicholas4 titles
• CWChris Weitz4 titles

• …If you start thinking about representation too much—and you think about what movie should exist for an Asian-American person, and for an Asian-American male, or what you would like to see an Asian-American male doing on TV or in movies, even though that’s a legitimate thing to think about—it clouds my ability to go, “Oh, that’s just a fun thing. I’d like to throw myself into that situation”...

  John Cho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’ve always said that it really bothers me that so much of Asian representation in cinema has been people running away from their Asian-ness to find love elsewhere…

  John Cho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’ve spent my life trying to figure out what Asian-ness means…but you know, I really gotta figure out what whiteness means. We all have to figure out what it means, apparently, for our survival.

  John Cho, CC BY-SA 4.0

• On a political level, I just found that I was more excited by what my skill-set could bring to film and television. Asian [American] theater has stretched the boundaries a little bit, but at the time, [it] was much more involved in what I thought was an older form of expression. It was much more about identity plays, explaining who we were as Asian Americans through dramas. And that didn't interest me as much. I was interested in people who weren't going to theater, and reaching them. That always excited me more, and to this day, theater, though on a formal level is the ideal place for an actor, on some political level, I find it frustrating that theatergoers are mostly rich -- maybe that's unfair -- mostly white…

  John Cho, CC BY-SA 4.0