Anna May Wong
Actor, Film actor
1905 – 1961
Who was Anna May Wong?
Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage and radio.
Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea, one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad. Wong became a fashion icon and by 1924 had achieved international stardom. Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in Hollywood, Wong left for Europe in the late 1920s, where she starred in several notable plays and films, among them Piccadilly. She spent the first half of the 1930s traveling between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. Wong was featured in films of the early sound era, such as Daughter of the Dragon and Daughter of Shanghai and with Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express.
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- Born
- Jan 3, 1905
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Wong Liu Tsong
- Anna Wong
- Anna Mae Wong
- Wong Lew Song
- Huáng Liǔshuāng
- Parents
- Siblings
- Religion
- Christian Science
- Ethnicity
- Asian American
- Chinese American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Los Angeles High School
- Died
- Feb 3, 1961
Santa Monica
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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