Jimmy O. Yang
Jimmy O. Yang was born in Hong Kong, China on June 11th, 1987 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 36, Jimmy O. Yang biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jimmy O. Yang (born on June 11, 1987) is a Chinese American actor, stand-up comedian, and writer best known for his role as Jian-Yang in HBO's comedy series Silicon Valley.
Early life and education
Yang was born in Hong Kong during British rule. Both his parents were from Shanghai and then migrated to Hong Kong. In 2000, when Yang was 13 years old, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, California. His uncle and grandmother were both living in the United States; his parents joined them mainly to ensure Yang and his brother, Roy, had better schools. Yang attended John Burroughs Middle School for the eighth grade and then went to Beverly Hills High School later.
In 2009, Yang graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a degree in economics. Mike Judge, the commencement speaker at his college graduation, was his future Silicon Valley showrunner and fellow UCSD alumnus Mike Judge.
Personal life
Yang speaks Shanghainese, Cantonese, and Mandarin Chinese with English.
Richard Ouyang's father, Richard Ouyang, later signed with the same talent company and appeared in several films, including playing his son's father in Patriots Day.
In 2015, Yang became an American citizen. He has a YouTube channel that focuses on cooking.
Career
At 21 years old, Yang appeared at the Ha Ha Comedy Club in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, as "Lowball Jim."
After graduation, he interned at Smith Barney, a financial services company in Beverly Hills, California, but found it unfull and turned down the firm's return bid. Rather, he returned to San Diego to complete his graduation requirements. He stayed in the city afterward, where he sold used cars, DJed at a strip joint, and seated customers at a comedy club to help himself when doing stand-up sets at The Comedy Palace for free. Sean Kelly, a stand-up comedian who performed the club and later developed the reality show Storage Hunters, was on view when he met his mentor, Sean Kelly, who later created the show Storage Hunters.
Yang landed back in Los Angeles and joined Central Casting due to their low barrier of entry and numerous casting websites. When a friend told him that residual checks from businesses could be made, he was encouraged to consider acting. In the interim, he performed stand-up sets around Southern California and registered for acting classes. He eventually found acting representation through the Vesta Talent Agency.
Yang made his television debut on CBS's 2 Broke Girls in 2012, as well as his first late-night stand-up appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 2014. In season 9 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Nathan Chow played Nathan Chow, a high-school student who suffered from a psychotic break. He served as a writer and consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters and appeared in the Infamous Second Son video game.
He appeared on Silicon Valley in a guest role and then went to $900 per episode. He appeared in three episodes and invested the money on a Prius so he could drive for Uber during the show's first and second seasons. He was promoted to series regular for season 2 by a network host. He had been offered a series of regular jobs on Yahoo! right up to the reveal. Sin City Saints is a movie that was not on television. He turned down the bid because it would have required him to leave Silicon Valley, which was running from 2014 to 2019.
In the 2016 action drama Patriots Day, Yang played Dun "Danny" Meng, a Chinese immigrant who is arrested by the Tsarnaev brothers.
Bernard Tai was portrayed by Jon M. Chu in the romantic comedy film Crazy Rich Asians in 2018.
Yang was cast as Dr. Chan Kaifang in the Netflix comedy film Space Force on September 26, 2019.
He starred opposite Ryan Hansen in two films, Like a Boss and Fantasy Island, which were released a month apart, in 2020. Their characters were primarily interested in each other in the first film; in the second, they were step-siblings who were keenly fond of each other.
On May 8, 2020, Yang's comedic special Good Deal was released on Amazon Prime Video. In Netflix's Love Hard, his first romantic film, he stars Nina Dobrev.
Yang is also the author of How to America: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents, a book in which "he chronicles his experience as a Chinese immigrant who pursued a Hollywood career against his parents' wishes." Mike Judge wrote the foreword.
Yang has also performed stand-up comedy; in 2018, he appeared on a tour named after the book.