When I first saw this actress in Dark Angel, I quickly drew two conclusions: she was Filipina, and she was one of the sexiest girls I’ve ever seen in my life. Turns out I was completely wrong on the first score (apparently she’s a mixture of French, Danish, Mexican, American Indian and Spanish!), but she sure does look Asian – and I don’t think too many people would disagree with me on my second conclusion! :-)You may recall from my previous Devon Aoki post that Robin and I had a bit of a debate as to whether Jessica qualifies for inclusion on Asian Sirens. Well, seeing as Robin is now safely on a plane to Vietnam I figure now’s my chance! As I also mentioned in that post, she is currently appearing (along with Devon) in the great film Sin City, as well as the major hit film Fantastic Four. Asian or not, let’s face it: she’s hot, both in appearance and in Hollywood!

Her IMDB profile is here, and probably her number one fan site is The Alba Area. I only wish she wouldn’t bleach her hair. 🙁

In 2003 I saw The Quiet American. A movie about early US involvement in Vietnam. But also a movie about love. The love of two men (one American, one British) for a Vietnamese woman. Though I didn’t think the movie was a masterpiece, lately it has been in my mind a lot. (Probably because I think about Vietnam all the time nowadays! ;-)) While doing some research, I found out it was the first major Hollywood film to be shot in Vietnam (most other American Vietnam movies were shot in the Philippines) and Vietnam has welcomed The Quiet American as an accurate portrayal of early US involvement in Indochina.

Do Thi Hai Yen plays the Vietnamese girl that has to choose between the two western men who both love her. I really tried do find out more about her on the web, but there is little to find. I could not even find a birthdate.She played in two other films before The Quiet America (Song of the Stork and At the Height of Summer), but did not make any film after it. If anybody has news about this Vietnamese beauty, feel free to post it in the comments.

Some galleries:
The Quiet American official site
The Quiet American official Spanish site (Skip intro and go to multimedia)
Gallery @ OutNow.ch
Gallery @ FilmFashion.nl
Google Image search

Articles about the film:
Vietnam welcomes The Quiet American @ BBCnews
The Quiet American: The film that scared a studio

Seo Won (aka Suh Won) was born in South Korea. She starred in Kim Ki-Duk’s Bad Guy (2001) and also played a young prostitute in Kim Ki-duk’s acclaimed film The Isle (2000).

I saw both films and thought she was fantastic in Bad Guy. Everyone who is interested in Asian art-house cinema should see this film. On the official site it says that throughout the shooting of the film, she kept to herself and did not speak to the other actors in order to prepare herself mentally for the challenge of playing a girl who is forced into prostitution.

There is not very much to be found on the web about this beautiful Korean actress, but here are a few links to galleries.Seo Won @ HanCinema.net
Stills from the film Bad Boy @ BadGuyTheMovie.net
Stills from the film Bad Boy @ Ecranlarge.com
Stills from the film Bad Boy @ BeyondHollywood.com

If you happen to find more about her, don’t hesitate to mention it in the comments 🙂

Some facts:

Real name: Park Sung Hee
Born: November 26, 1979 (some sites say 1981)
Height/Weight: 165 cm (5′ 5″) / 45 kg (99 lbs)
Education: She is a Graduate of Seoul University of the Arts, Drama and Film Department.

While I love living in Australia, our population is just too small and isolated to support much of a modelling industry – for example, we don’t have the ‘import’ scene which seems to be the main source of employment for Asian models in the US.

We do however have a very large percentage of Asians living and studying here, and a very high percentage of our Asian girls are good looking (many people I know who’ve lived overseas have told me this). Their culture thrives here also, and perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of this is Japanese beach culture.When young Japanese come to the part of Australia I live in, it seems they become even more ‘Aussie’ than many Australians, and really embrace the laid-back, Australian beach culture as their own. Emerging independent Australian film maker Rachael Lucas thought this would be an interesting subject for a feature film, and the result is Bondi Tsunami.

I won’t bother trying to explain the film here (let’s just say it’s very different!), but of interest to Asian Sirens readers will be one of the film’s main stars, Miki Sasaki. Unfortuantely the pic above was the best one I could find on the net, but having seen the film myself I can confirm she’s really cute! If anybody can find better pics please post them here.

Kelly Chen (born Wai Man Chen on September 13, 1973) is a Hong Kong based singer and actress. She is also credited as Kelly Chan, Wai-Lam Chan, Huilin Chen and Wai Lun Chen.

Kelly Chen went to primary school in Hong Kong, and high school called Kobe Canadian Academy in Japan. She graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City, specializing in Graphic Design. Most famous in Hong Kong and the rest of China, she is also quite popular in Taiwan, Japan, and in North America. Besides Cantonese she also speaks fluently Japanese, English, Mandarin and Korean. A high-brow entertainer indeed!I saw the movie Tokyo Raiders, which wasn’t very good, but thanks to Kelly, watchable. I don’t think she did any (semi) nude posing. If I am wrong, please let me know 😉

Kelly Concerto Club
(The official Singapore homepage. Lot’s of photo galleries, scans of commercials and long biography. Don’t forget to check out the extensive magazine covers section dating back to 1995!)
Kelly Chen Google Image search
Kelly Chen fansite

Some facts:
Name: Kelly Chen Wai Lum
Original Name: Vivian Chen Wai Man
Date Of Birth: 13th September 1973
Place of Birth: Hong Kong
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 115 lb

Eugenia Yuan is the daughter of a famous Hong Kong actress and martial arts legend Cheng Pei Pei, who portrayed Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Eugenia didn’t follow her mother’s footsteps immediately and purposely avoided acting instead pursuing such interests as gymnastics. In fact, she was on the US National team for rhythmic gymnastics!

Eugenia finally caught the acting bug when she tried acting in her first film Charlotte Sometimes. She was the highlight of the film but not so much her acting which was rough at times but just her screen presence and beauty.

Since Hollywood wasn’t beating down her door after her debut, Eugenia went to Hong Kong and did some films.She won the Hong Kong equivalent of an Oscar for Best Newcomer for her role in a trio of short horror films called Three. In that role, she had to lie motionless while nude in a bathtub (as can be seen in the photo above). Eugenia also starred in a martial arts film Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger and another horror film with Shu Qui, the sequel Eye 2.

Eugenia returned back home to the US and chose a quirky role as the title character in Mail Order Wife. She discusses this role among other things in a 15 minute long RealVideo interview including a text transcription.

She also did another interview at Giant Robot.

A recent article about her yearning for some romance is actually what inspired this posting.

I didn’t find much in the way of good pictures of Eugenia Yuan doing an image search on google.

As far as upcoming films, Eugenia can be seen in a small role in Memoirs of a Geisha where she befriended her favorite Chinese actress, Gong Li.