In 2004, Ming-Na Wen participated in and won the World Poker Tour’s Hollywood Home Game. The later same year, in the fall of 2005, she landed the lead role of Rachel Lu in the NBC drama series “Inconceivable”. However, the show was canceled after just two episodes.
Later, she played an FBI agent in the Fox kidnapping thriller series “Vanished,” which made its premiere in the fall of 2006 but was ultimately canceled. Wen portrayed a college lecturer in the sitcom “George Lopez.”
In a four-episode plot of CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” in 2007, Wen portrayed a judge who falls in love with Charlie Sheen. She additionally guest starred on the ABC television program “Private Practice” in 2008.
Wen and “Stuttering” John Melendez co-starred in a charity production of the musical “Grease” at the Class Act Theatre in December 2008.
From October 2009 until May 2011, Wen appeared on the television program “Stargate Universe” as the political attaché Camile Wray. She also made an appearance as the hostess of the 1990s segment in the short documentary “Disney Through the Decades,” which explores the history of The Walt Disney Company.
Wen debuted as the enigmatic US Senator Michaela Wen in the Syfy series “Eureka” in 2011. She later became a key villain in the fifth and final season of the show, which aired in 2012.
Ming-Na Wen’s parents: Meet Lin Chan Wen
Wen’s mother, Lin Chan Wen, moved from Suzhou, China, to Coloane, one of Macau’s main islands, in the middle of the 1960s. Wen was born there on November 20, 1963. Her father is of Chinese descent from Malaysia. Jonathan is the name of Wen’s older brother.
After her parents’ divorced when she was a baby, Wen relocated to Hong Kong with her mother, brother, and father. Wen attended a Catholic school in Hong Kong while her mother supported the family by working three jobs.