Beautiful Asians (and Eurasians)

1. Tia Carrere

Tia Carrere, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, was discovered in a grocery store and landed the female lead in the film Aloha Summer. She then moved to Los Angeles and continued her ascent in the acting world as a series regular on General Hospital as well as a string of guest starring roles on ...

2. Irene Tsu

Actress | How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

Born in Shanghai, China to a banker father and a painter mother. The family left for Hong Kong where Irene attended parochial school and studied ballet. At 12 the family immigrated to New York City where Irene attended George Washington HS and Quintano's School for young professionals and studied ...

3. Eriko Tamura

Actress | Dragonball Evolution

Eriko made her acting debut at age 14 in the highly acclaimed Asian feature film, "Flowerly Afternoon," which was directed by Kazuki Omori, best known in the U.S. for his work with the famous "Godzilla" television series. Eriko rose to fame when she joined the popular TV show "Go with the Wild!" as...

4. Fann Wong

Actress | Shanghai Knights

Fann Wong is a Singapore-born actress-singer-model of Chinese origin. Born on 27 January 1971, she derived her artiste name, Fann Wong, from a combination of her father's surname (Fann) and her mother's surname (Wong). With GCE 'A' Levels and a diploma in fashion merchandising from the La Salle ...

5. Tomoka Igari

Actress | Restart: Runway - Episode Zero

Tomoka Igari was born on December 9, 1991 in Saitama, Japan. She is an actress, known for Restart: Runway - Episode Zero (2019) and The Fish with One Sleeve (2021).

6. Ayako Wakao

Actress | Seisaku no tsuma

Ayako Wakao was born on November 8, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Seisaku's Wife (1965), Women Are Born Twice (1961) and A Wife Confesses (1961).

7. Meisa Kuroki

Actress | Space Battleship Yamato

The Japanese actress, model and singer Kuroki Meisa was born in Okinawa, Japan, which is the southernmost Japanese prefecture, on May28, 1988. She was scouted when she was in junior high school and began her career as a model for the traditional women's magazine, JJ Magazine. Like Shimabukuro ...

8. Michelle Yeoh

Actress | Everything Everywhere All at Once

Michelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. She's the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh. She's of Hokkien descent, speaking English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss ...

9. Isabella Leong

Actress | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Isabella Leong was born on June 23, 1988 in Portuguese Macau. She is an actress, known for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Isabella (2006) and Bug Me Not! (2005).

10. Kelly Hu

Actress | The Scorpion King

On February 13th, 1968, a girl of Chinese, English, and Hawaiian ancestry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father, Herbert, was a salesman and her mother, Juanita, worked many odd jobs to help support the family. She has one older brother, Glenn. She is a former Miss Teen USA, and modeled in Japan...

11. Vanessa Mae

Actress | Arabian Nights

Vanessa Mae was born on October 27, 1978 in Singapore. She is an actress and composer, known for Arabian Nights (2000), The Violin Fantasy (1998) and Risas y estrellas (1997).

12. IU

Actress | Naui ajusshi

Lee Ji-Eun, also known by her stage name IU, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, composer, and actress. She signed with LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao Entertainment) in 2007 as a trainee and debuted as a singer at the age of fifteen with her first extended play (EP) Lost and Found (2008). Although ...

13. Hyo-ri Lee

Actress | Lee Hyori (feat. Nassun): U Go Girl

Lee Hyo-Ri is a South Korean singer, record producer, activist, actress, and television presenter. Dubbed the "Nation's Fairy" during her Family Outing days, Lee began her career as part of the popular South Korean pop girl group Fin.K.L As the eldest member, she was the leader of the group. Lee ...

14. Maggie Q

Actress | Divergent

Margaret Denise Quigley was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a father of Polish and Irish descent (originally based in New York) and a Vietnamese mother. Her parents met during the Vietnam War. Maggie has two older half-siblings from her mother's previous marriage, and two older sisters. The family ...

15. Teresa Teng

Soundtrack | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Teresa Teng, sometimes spelled or written as Teresa Tang or Teresa Deng, was a popular and influential Chinese pop singer. She was born in Baozhong Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan, on 29 January 1953, to Waishengren parents. Her father (from Daming, Hebei) was a soldier in the Republic of China ...

16. Miki Matsubara

Soundtrack | El club lento

Miki Matsubara was born on November 28, 1959 in Kishiwada, Japan. She was a composer, known for El club lento (2022) and Miki Matsubara: Mayonaka no Door - Stay with me (2023). She was married to Masaki Honjo. She died on October 7, 2004 in Sakai, Japan.

17. Anita Mui

Actress | Yim ji kau

With a career that began in her early childhood, Anita Mui is the queen of Hong Kong's pop-music industry. After she won a singing contest in 1982, her life in the limelight began. In the early stages of her career her image was a little bit tomboy-ish and sexy (which was the reason she was called ...

18. Faye Wong

Actress | Chung Hing sam lam

Her mother (now deceased) was a singer and her father a mining engineer. They moved with her older brother to Hong Kong when she was 18 and she began to take singing lessons. Her teacher introduced her to Cinepoly Records, where she first recorded under the name Wong Jing Man and was given the ...

19. Maria Ozawa

Sound_department | The Figurine

Maria Ozawa is known for The Figurine (2009), She the Monster (2013) and Sol (2010).

20. Treechada Petcharat

Actress | The Cave

Treechada Petcharat is known for The Cave (2019), The White Storm (2013) and From Vegas to Macau II (2015).

21. Ziyi Zhang

Actress | Yi dai zong shi

Ziyi Zhang is a Chinese actress and model. She is best known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004), and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).

She made her feature film debut in The Road Home (1999).

For her work in Memoirs of a Geisha she was...

22. Wei Zhao

Actress | Hua Mulan

Wei Zhao was born in Wuhu, Anhui province. She is the second child of her family. Because she is the only girl, Zhao's father named her Wei, literally "Rose". Her father was a senior engineer, her mother was a music teacher.

After filming A Soul Haunted By Painting (1994) as a figurant, Wei Zhao was...

23. Xinyu Zhang

Actress | Shen Diao Xia Lu

Xinyu Zhang is known for The Romance of the Condor Heroes (2014), Starts Good Ends Good (2012) and Dark Wedding (2012).

24. Susan Byun

Actress | Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.

Susan Byun is known for Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1996) and Deadly Target (1994).

25. Grace Park

Actress | Battlestar Galactica

Grace Park (born March 14, 1974) is an American-Canadian actress. She gained recognition as Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii and Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon on Battlestar Galactica (2004), as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont (2000). From 2010 to 2017, Park starred ...

26. Lucy Liu

Actress | Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Born to immigrants in New York City, Lucy Liu has always tried to balance an interest in her cultural heritage with a desire to move beyond a strictly Asian-American experience. Her mother, Cecilia, a biochemist, is from Beijing & her father, Tom Liu, a civil engineer, is from Shanghai. Once ...

27. Olivia Munn

Actress | The Newsroom

Lisa Olivia Munn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her mother, Kimberly Schmid, lived in Vietnam, and is of Chinese ancestry, while her father, Winston Barrett Munn, is from a family with deep roots in the American South. Olivia's parents divorced when she was two years old, and she was raised ...

28. Jamie Chung

Actress | Big Hero 6

Jamie Chung was born and raised in California, the daughter of Korean parents. She studied Economics at the University of California, Riverside. Chung's break came in 2004, when she was working in a sports bar. MTV held auditions for The Real World (1992) there, she tried out, and was successful, ...

29. Sunny Leone

Actress | Lies: Diary of an Escort

Born in Ontario, Canada, Sunny Leone grew up in idyllic surroundings, loving the cold Canadian winters and the snow that came with them. Building snowmen and ice skating were regular activities outside the Leone household every November through March. With a love for sports, singing and dancing, ...

30. Gong Li

Actress | Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia

Born in Shenyang, grew up in Jinan, the daughter of an economics professor. Loved music from childhood, and dreamed of a singing career. After failing to gain entrance to China's top music school in 1985, applied for and was admitted to the Central Drama Academy in Beijing, from which she graduated...

31. Yuri Ebihara

Actress | Tokumei kakarichô Tadano Hitoshi: Saigo no gekijôban

Yuri Ebihara was born on October 3, 1979 in Miyazaki, Japan. She is an actress, known for Tokumei kakarichô Tadano Hitoshi: Saigo no gekijôban (2008), Busu no hitomi ni koishiteru (2006) and Himawari Miyazaki rejendo (2020).

32. Chou Tzu-Yu

Actress | Twice: Fancy

Tzuyu was born in Tainan, Taiwan, on June 14, 1999. She is a Taiwanese singer based in South Korea and member of the K-pop girl group Twice under JYP Entertainment. Tzuyu is a sub-vocalist, a lead dancer, the visual and the maknae of the group. Tzuyu was born to parents of self-made entrepreneurs. ...

33. Yukie Nakama

Actress | Shinobi

Yukie Nakama was born on October 30, 1979 in Urasoe. She's 1 of the few Japanese celebrities that have been able to break free from their teeny-bopper image & emerge as 1 of the country's most popular as well as respected actresses.

She appeared in small roles until"Love & Pop (1998)." She was a ...

34. Liu Yifei

Actress | Mulan

Crystal Liu, better known by her stage name Liu Yifei, was born in Wuhan, on August 25, 1987. She began modeling at 8. She was trained in singing, dancing & the piano. She moved to the U.S. at 10 w/ her mom, where she lived for 4 years. She returned to China in June 2002 to pursue a modeling & ...

35. Mao Inoue

Actress | Hana yori dango

Mao Inoue began her career as a child actress at 5 when encouraged by her mom and receiving a fan letter after her first year in show business. She hasn't stopped since. She was born in Yokohama, just west of Tokyo, in 1987. She gained national attention on Kids War from 1999 to 2003. She was the ...

36. Keiko Kitagawa

Actress | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Keiko Kitagawa, very commonly known as Sailor Mars in the live action series of Sailor Moon, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (PGSM), is a seventeen magazine model turned actress and singer. Born on August 22nd 1986 in Hyogo Perfecture, Japan, Keiko has a lived an unexpected life. From growing up in ...

37. Nancy Kwan

Actress | The World of Suzie Wong

At just 18, Nancy Kwan was studying dance with England's Royal Ballet School, when she was spotted by producer Ray Stark, who tested her and gave her the starring role of a free-spirited Hong Kong prostitute who captivates artist William Holden in The World of Suzie Wong (1960). She followed it the...

38. Kirstin Leigh

Actress | Fear the Night

Kirstin Leigh is known for Fear the Night (2023), Hawaii Five-0 (2010) and Diamond in the Rough (2022).

39. Moon Bloodgood

Actress | Terminator Salvation

Moon Bloodgood was born on September 20, 1975 in Alliance, Nebraska, USA. She is an actress, known for Terminator Salvation (2009), Faster (2010) and The Sessions (2012). She was previously married to Grady Hall.

40. Phoebe Cates

Actress | Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Phoebe Belle Cates was born on July 16, 1963 in New York City, New York, and raised there. She is the daughter of Lily and Joseph Cates, who was a Broadway producer and television pioneer. Her uncle was director/producer Gilbert Cates. Phoebe is of Russian Jewish, and one quarter Chinese, descent. ...

41. Jun Ji-hyun

Actress | Yeopgijeogin geunyeo

Versatile and Charismatic, Jun Ji-Hyun is one of the most loved and respected actresses in her homeland of South Korea. She has won numerous accolades, including two Grand Bell Awards for Best Actress and a Baeksang Art Awards Daesang (Grand Prize) for Television. Jun Ji-Hyun's success in film and ...

42. Yôko Shimada

Actress | Shogun

Kumamoto City-born Shimada Yoko is best known in the west as Mariko from the 1980 mini-series Shogun. The lady-in-waiting role created an interest in Japan and its culture overseas and introduced Japanese history to foreign audiences. She won the Golden Globe For Best Performance by an Actress in a...

43. Christy Chung

Actress | The Medallion

Christy Chung was born on September 19, 1970 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for The Medallion (2003), The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994) and Man Wanted (1995). She has been married to Shawn Zhang since November 8, 2016. She was previously married to Jon Yen and Glen Ross.

44. Rosalind Chao

Actress | 3 Body Problem

Rosalind Chao is best known for M*A*S*H, The Joy Luck Club (1993), Star Trek, What Dreams May Come, and most recently The Laundromat (2019), and Plus One (2019). She was born and raised in Orange County, California where her parents ran a Chinese restaurant and pancake house. Rosalind first began ...

45. Lindsay Price

Actress | Lipstick Jungle

Lindsay Price was born on December 6, 1976 in Arcadia, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Lipstick Jungle (2008), Eastwick (2009) and Splitting Up Together (2018). She has been married to Curtis Stone since June 8, 2013. They have two children. She was previously married to Shawn Piller.

46. France Nuyen

Actress | Battle for the Planet of the Apes

France Nuyen was born on July 31, 1939 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), The Joy Luck Club (1993) and South Pacific (1958). She was previously married to Robert Culp and Dr. Thomas Gaspar Morell.

47. Shon Seung-wan

Actress | Trolls World Tour

Shon Seung-wan, known professionally as Wendy, is a South Korean singer. She is a member of the South Korean girl group Red Velvet. She made her solo debut in 2021 with Like Water. She was born on February 21, 1994 in Seongbuk-dong, a neighborhood in Seongbuk District in Seoul, South Korea.Coming ...

48. Bae Joo-hyun

Actress | Trolls World Tour

Bae Joo Hyun, known professionally as Irene, is a South Korean singer, rapper, television host, and model. She is a member and leader of the South Korean girl group Red Velvet. Irene was in Daegu, South Korea. Her family consists of her parents and a younger sister. She attended Haknam High School ...

49. Hirai Momo

Actress | Twice: Fancy

Momo Hirai (born: Hirai Momo), commonly known mononymously as Momo, is a Japanese singer and dancer currently based in South Korea. She debuted in 2015 as a member of South Korean girl group Twice under JYP Entertainment. In Gallup Korea's annual music poll for 2018, Momo was voted the 20th most ...

50. Nia Peeples

Actress | Fame

FYI: I've written my own BIO. To be honest it felt more sincere than pretending like I hired some journalist to do a ton of research and come up with a non biased presentation. So here it goes.

Nia Peeples- What others have said: is an American actress, singer, dancer. For more than 30 years Nia has...

51. Shriya Saran

Actress | Manam

Shriya Saran also known by the mononym Shriya, is an Indian film actress, model and presenter. She has worked in multiple of the regional industries of Indian cinema, including Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu language films, as well as a few films in English, Malayalam and Kannada. Saran made her film ...

52. Kim You-Jin

Actress | Ojakgyo hyeongjaedeul

Kim You-Jin was born on April 9, 1988 in Daejeon, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Ojakgyo Brothers (2011), Marriage Contract (2016) and My Only One (2018).

53. Im Jin-Ah

Actress | Gut waipeu: The Good Wife

Hailed as the 'God-Tier Visual of the Second Generation of K-pop", Im Jin-ah, professionally recognized as Nana, is a South Korean Actress active in singing, acting, and modeling. She has been recognized as perhaps one of the most beautiful women in the world and has been listed by TC Chandler for ...

54. Lee-Young No

Actress | After School: Lady Luck

Lee-Young No was born on August 16, 1992 in Gangwon-do, South Korea. She is an actress, known for After School: Lady Luck (2012), After School: Heaven (2013) and After School: Shampoo (2011).

55. Lee Ka-eun

Actress | After School: Heaven

Lee Ka-eun was born on August 20, 1994 in Seoul, South Korea. She is an actress, known for After School: Heaven (2013), After School: Flashback (2012) and After School: First Love (2013).

56. Feng-Jiao Lin

Actress | Xiao cheng gu shi

Feng-Jiao Lin was born on June 30, 1953 in Taiwan. She is an actress, known for Xiao cheng gu shi (1979), He Never Gives Up (1979) and Shaolin Long Arm (1974). She has been married to Jackie Chan since December 1, 1982. They have one child.

57. Tara Patrick

Actress | Big Trouble and the Bloodsucker

Tara Patrick is known for Big Trouble and the Bloodsucker (2012), Saints Row 2: Ultor Exposed (2009) and Howard Stern on Demand (2005).

58. Nina Li Chi

Actress | Diao Chan

Nina Li was one of the most distinguished Chinese leading ladies in late 80s and early 90s, and was renowned for her ravishing sex appeal which earned her the reputation of being "Marilyn of the East". She was born as Li Chi (Li Zhi) on the last day of 1961 in Shanghai. During her childhood, she ...

59. Chingmy Yau

Actress | Chik loh goh yeung

Chingmy Yau was born on May 16, 1968 in Hong Kong. She is an actress, known for Naked Killer (1992), Hold You Tight (1998) and Royal Tramp (1992). She has been married to Karwai Shum since October 31, 1999. They have three children.

60. Anna May Wong

Actress | The Toll of the Sea

Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American movie star, was born Wong Liu Tsong on January 3, 1905, in Los Angeles, California, to laundryman Wong Sam Sing and his wife, Lee Gon Toy. A third-generation American, she managed to have a substantial acting career during a deeply racist time when the ...