Tzi Ma

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1962 age 0

   Born

2. 1986 age 24

   CreditThe Money Pit

3. 1990 age 28

   CreditRoboCop 2

4. 1997 age 35

   CreditDante's Peak

5. 1998 age 36

   CreditRush Hour

6. 2004 age 42

   CreditThe Ladykillers

7. 2007 age 45

   CreditRush Hour 3

8. 2013 age 51

   CreditElementary

9. 2016 age 54

   CreditArrival

10. 2020 age 58

    CreditMulan

• FTFaran Tahir6 titles
• GMGlenn Morshower5 titles
• NSNestor Serrano5 titles
• WSWilliam Sadler4 titles
• MRMark Rolston4 titles
• MGMichael Gaston4 titles
• GCGeorge Cheung4 titles
• RSRaphael Sbarge4 titles
• RBRobert Baker4 titles
• RDReed Diamond4 titles

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• I hope the quantities go up. Right now, there's still very few in my mind. I think that since Asian America is a multicultural, multi-ethnic society, we need as many voices that we can get out there to represent all of us. Because we cannot speak for everyone, we need more voices. We need diverse voices, we need mixes; we need many more diversity in the same screen. All of these things are things that are on the agenda, and I'm ticking them off one by one. That's how it goes.

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• Focus on the work because, personally, that brings me through the toughest day — that I’m focusing on the work at hand instead of [all] of these things that are bombarding me. The chatter in your mind is strong. So, you need to be stronger.

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• I’ve studied martial arts for a long time. I started when I was eight years old, so I’m not unfamiliar. I’ve done fights before on other shows. You’ve seen me probably, if you’ve seen other shows that I’ve done in film and television, I’ve had my chance for some action. But the young ones are good, let them take over. They can carry the heavy weight. I’ll be happy to do the talking by now.

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• Carefully. I think particularly for actors of color, we have an added responsibility. I think under normal circumstances, if the playing field was equal, then you just do. You do whatever comes your way and you do the best job you can. For us, it’s a little bit different, I think. I think we need to exercise and develop our sense of good taste. I think we need to see characters that are three- dimensional because Hollywood has not done such a good job in the past on how to represent us. So we need to untie a lot of those expectations that are something that is not exactly representative of who we are. So that is something that we need to be cognitive of.

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• What I appreciate the most my job is working with so many talented people with a single focus to make the best film or TV show possible.

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• We have to continue to tell our stories. And if we change one mind, it’s one mind that we changed and I’m happy with that.

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