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Ming-Na Wen

Ming-Na Wen

3 films · 81 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20202025

Born 20 November 1963 · Coloane Island, Macau

Ming-Na Wen is an American actress and model. She has won multiple awards throughout her career, including an Annie Award and a Saturn Award, in addition to a  Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. She was honoured as a Disney Legend in 2019 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.

Wen's breakthrough role was as June Woo in The Joy Luck Club (1993). Other early successes include the role of Dr Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen in the medical drama series ER (1995–2004) and her voice role as Fa Mulan in the Walt Disney Animated Classic Mulan, as well as its sequel Mulan II, several video games and guest appearances in TV shows such as Sofia the First.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 81 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20202025

  • BBC 100 Women2021
  • Disney Legends2019
  • TVLine's Performer of the Week2015
  • Annie Award1998

How their films are shot

Measured across 81 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ming-Na takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 43% of their frames are day, 70% natural — the look of the work Ming-Na takes.

Time of day

Day43%
Night29%
Golden hour18%
Interior5%

Lighting

Natural70%
Low key17%
High key11%

Shot size

Medium58%
Wide17%
Closeup10%
Fullbody10%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle14%

Mood

Neutral70%
Tense13%
Joyful4%
Chaotic4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 81 frames from Ming-Na Wen's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.