EXCLUSIVE: Chinese language-Kiwi actor Yoson An has signed with Sovereign Expertise Group. Sovereign will rep An’s writing and directing work.
An is greatest identified for his breakout function in Disney‘s live-action Mulan. Within the pic, he performed Chen Honghui, a army recruit, and Mulan’s love curiosity. Born in China, An migrated to New Zealand as a toddler.
His different characteristic movie credit embrace The Meg, Mortal Engines, and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. His TV credit embrace the HBO Asia mini-series Grace, the place he performed Ricky Wu. He was a sequence lead on SBS TV’s crime thriller Useless Fortunate. He featured within the Warner Bros. comedy sequence Contemporary Eggs, shot in New Zealand, and most just lately performed Sook within the BBC’s The Luminaries.
After initially working in theatre, An’s first function on-screen was within the brief movie Demise Observe (2012). He subsequent starred in Kiwi filmmaker David Blyth’s horror movie Ghost Bride, the place he performed a Chinese language immigrant pressured into a wedding.
Yoson is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin and is a martial artist with a black belt in Karate. Behind the digital camera, An additionally exec produced the brief undertaking The Harvest along with his Mulan costar Doua Moua. The movie was screened at Outfest. He wrote a second brief movie, John, directed and starred in.
LA-based Sovereign Expertise Group represents the likes of Oscar nominee Eric Roberts, Valeria Lamm, and Chris Doubek.
