John Cho
John Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea on June 16th, 1972 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 52, John Cho 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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Born Cho Yo Han (June 16, 1972) is a Korean American actor best known for his appearances in the Harold & Kumar films and Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek reboot film series. Cho also appeared in the Asian American-centered films Better Luck Tomorrow (2002), Shopping for Fangs (1997), and Yellow (1998) early in his career.
He starred in Searching, making him the first Asian-American actor to headline a mainstream thriller film in Hollywood in 2018.
When he appeared as Henry Higgs in the 2014 sitcom Selfie, he made history by becoming the first Asian American actor cast as a romantic lead.
Cho has appeared in films including FlashForward and Off Center, as well as recurring roles in Sleepy Hollow and Difficult People, in addition to his self-help role.
Early life
Cho, a born in Seoul, South Korea, immigrated to the United States in 1978. He was born in Los Angeles, where his family relocated after living in Houston, Seattle, Daly City, California, and Montey Park, California. His father, who was originally from North Korea, was a minister in the Church of Christ. He grew up with one younger brother. In 1990, Cho graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California.
Cho studied at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994, he toured nationally for the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in honor of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English literature in 1996.
Personal life
In 2006, Cho married actress Kerri Hiraichi. They met at UC Berkeley and then dated when they arrived in Los Angeles. They have a son and a daughter who was born in 2013. He and his family live in Los Angeles, California, as of 2015. He is close to his father, a former minister, and would like to participate in his father's generation's tale, growing up in North Korea during the Korean War.
Cho has found solace in being Harold and Kumar films that go against the grain of Asian Americans onscreen. He has said he has been victimized throughout his time in Hollywood, and that he is determined not to promote Asian stereotypes. Cho refused to do an Asian accent for Big Fat Liar. "I don't want to do this part in a kid's comedy with an accent because I don't want young people laughing at an accent inadvertently," he wrote. "Stop turning Asian roles white," he said in a 2015 tweet. It's bullshit, and we're all aware of it." On being the first Asian to play a romantic lead on a U.S. romantic comedy television series, he portrayed his role in Selfie as "revolutionary" and a "personal revolution" for him due to its uniqueness in Hollywood. "In shows, the Asians are insignificant." They're the cop, waitress, or whatever it is called. You can see them in the background. "Being in this position... is a bit of a feat," he has said about the inability of Asians to be given such roles.
Cho was the star of William Yu's "#StarringJohnCho" social movement and hashtag campaign, in which Cho is Photoshopped as the male lead on current movie posters. The aim of the campaign was to alert Asian American actors in Hollywood that there were no Asian American actors in Hollywood.
Choub supported President Barack Obama's re-election bid in 2012.
Career
After graduation, Cho taught English literature at Pacific Hills School in West Hollywood, California, while acting at East West Players in downtown Los Angeles. There, he appeared in Edward Sakamoto's The Taste of Kona Coffee in 1996 and in Euijoon Kim's film My Tired Broke Ass Pontificating Slapstick Funk in 2000.
Cho gained attention with a small role as "MILF Guy #2" in the 1999 comedy American Pie, in which he popularized the slang term MILF. Cho reprised the role in three sequels: American Pie 2, American Wedding, and the latest installment American Reunion in which he has a much larger role. His character initially had no name but he was given the name "John" in the third film, named after Cho himself.
Cho guest-starred on Charmed as a ghost in the episode "Dead Man Dating" in 1998 and was one of the stars of the short-lived situation comedy Off Centre from 2001 to 2002. He was a costar on the Fox sitcom Kitchen Confidential based on Anthony Bourdain's best-selling book. He had supporting roles in the science fiction comedy Evolution directed by Ivan Reitman, Down to Earth , and Bowfinger.
In 2002, Cho had a starring role in the ensemble cast of Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow, a drama focusing on the travails of a group of Asian Americans living in Southern California who are academically successful but socially discontented, and as a result engage in wantonly violent, criminal behavior. It was well received by critics, with Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times describing Cho's character's "lazy magnetism of which he is charmingly aware". Later that year, the movie Big Fat Liar was released, in which Cho played a Hong Kong-based film director. He refused to do the accent scripted for his character. The director worked with him to re-develop the role.
Cho had a successful starring role as Harold Lee in 2004's Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and reprised the role in 2008's Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay which earned $38 million at the box office, and again in 2011's A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas which made $35 million. Cho's role in the popular franchise was written specifically for him by Hayden Schlossberg, and Cho has recounted that when Schlossberg first approached him with the role, he was initially suspicious.
Cho appeared in the July 2004 issue of KoreAm Journal and, in September 2006, was cast in NBC's new comedy The Singles Table, but the series never aired due to changes in scheduling and production. In 2006 and again in 2009, Cho was selected as one of the sexiest men alive in People magazine.
In 2007, Cho was added to the cast of Ugly Betty as a recurring character. Cho plays Kenny, a best friend of accountant Henry Grubstick. Cho played helmsman Hikaru Sulu in J. J. Abrams's feature film Star Trek. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times praised him for making his role "ultimately and rather wonderfully [his] own".
Cho appeared in Nas's "Be a Nigger Too" music video along with various celebrities, and had a guest appearance on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in the episode "I'm Not That Guy" where he played a partner in an evil law firm. Of the latter, Staci Krause of IGN, wrote that Cho was "the scene stealer in this episode" and that she would "definitely like to see more of him" in the series.
From 2009 to 2010, Cho starred in the television series FlashForward as FBI Special Agent Demetri Noh. His character was originally slated to be killed off during what turned out to be the show's only season, but after his turn as Sulu in Star Trek boosted his popularity, the producers revised the show's storyline so that he survived, in an attempt to boost declining ratings.
In 2012, he was part of the cast ensemble of Go On as Steven.
Cho starred as Henry Higgs in the short-lived sitcom Selfie, a retooling of the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, becoming the first Asian American man to play a romantic lead on a U.S. romantic comedy television series in 2014. In July 2022, when Cho was asked about his thoughts on the show's cancellation, he answered, "I'm still stunned to see how many people still love that series. And yeah, I was bummed when it got canceled. I just thought that was a good show."
In 2016, he was a series regular for the television show as Andy Kim in the second season of The Exorcist television series.
In 2017, he starred in the film Columbus, which received critical acclaim.
In 2018, Cho starred in the film Searching, playing a man combing social media for clues to his daughter's disappearance. He was the first Asian-American actor to headline a mainstream thriller in Hollywood. Also in 2018, he was presented with the Spotlight Award at the San Diego International Film Festival.
In April 2019, Variety reported that Cho had been cast as Spike Spiegel in a live-action version of the Cowboy Bebop series. However, production shut down when Cho suffered a knee injury in October and remained shut down until late September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cowboy Bebop premiered on Netflix on November 19, 2021.
He wrote a middle school grade novel book for younger readers called Troublemaker on March 22, 2022.
In May 2022, Cho was cast in the second season of Apple TV+'s comedy series The Afterparty.
Musical career
Cho is the lead singer for Viva La Union (formerly known as Left of Zed), a Los Angeles garage rock band composed of former Berkeley and USC students. They have one album, self-titled, while their song "Chinese Baby" is featured on the Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay soundtrack.