Jona Xiao
Birthday: Born in 1989-05-18 in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China
Deathday: Alive
Jona Xiao (born May 18, 1989) is an American actress born in China. Xiao was born in Changsha, China, and moved to New York as an infant, before ultimately settling in St. Louis, Missouri, with her family, starting acting in middle school. Growing up, she was called racial slurs and decided to be an actress to break against stereotypes. Xiao founded Career ACTivate, which specialises in helping actors jumpstart and progress their careers. Xiao was cast in Spider-Man: Homecoming in a role that she denies was initially written for an Asian-American actress. Marisa Tomei, who plays Aunt May in the film, lobbied for Xiao to be cast. Her role ended up getting cut in the final film. In 2021, Xiao lent her voice to a younger Namaari in Raya and the Last Dragon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jona Xiao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Flash
Character: Carrie Bates / Rainbow Raider
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city....
バイオハザード: インフィニット ダークネス
Character: Shen May (voice)
Years after the horrors of Raccoon City, Leon and Claire find themselves consumed by a dark conspiracy when a viral attack ravages the White House....
NCIS
Character: Dr. Mei Li
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position....
Victorious
Character: Nina
Aspiring singer Tori Vega navigates life while attending a performing arts high school called Hollywood Arts....
S.W.A.T.
Character: Grace
A locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he's tasked to run a highly-trained unit that's the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles....
Rizzoli & Isles
Character: Young Mother
Perhaps their strikingly different personalities make the relationship between detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles so effective. Jane, the only female cop in Boston's homicide division, is tough, relentless and rarely lets her guard down, while the impeccably dressed Maura displays a sometimes icy temperament — she is, after all, more comfortable among the dead than the living. Together, the best friends have forged a quirky and supportive relationship; they drop the protecti...
Bones
Character: Miriam Young
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless....
2 Broke Girls
Character: Hipster
Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke....
The Forgotten
Character: Female Med Student
A team of dedicated amateurs work on cases involving unidentified victims. After the police have given up, this group must first solve the puzzle of the victim's identity in order to then help catch the killer. They work to give the deceased back their names, lest they become—The Forgotten....
Halt and Catch Fire
Character: Julie Yang
During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it....
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Keeping Up with the Joneses
Character: Stacey Chung
An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert operatives....
Gifted
Character: Lijuan
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother....
Alice Upside Down
Character: Loretta
Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves her and her older brother Lester to a new town....
Doggone
Character: Jamie Bishop
A struggling artist takes a dog sitting job to pay rent, but the dog in her care is dognapped by a mysterious stranger. On her quest to get the dog back before its owner returns, she discovers that everything is not as it seems....
Jing Hua
Character: Marcial Artist
A martial artist named Jing Hua stands in front of the grave of her deceased master. She exerts her frustration by performing kung fu; creating the world around her as it is made of water colors and ink. As her pain and sorrow at the loss of a loved one climaxes through the appearance of dripping ink, Jing Hua learns to accept the fate of her master as she becomes tired, but undefeated....
Timeline
Character: Diner
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APPyness
Character: Tiffany
A troubled young woman tests out a new app that lets her control when and how she feels emotions. (DUST)...
Raya and the Last Dragon
Character: Young Namaari (voice)
Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil has returned and it’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the fractured land and its divided people....