Ming-Na Wen (Birthday 11-20-63)
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Films
- Mulan II (2004)
- Teddy Bears' Picnic (2001)
- Aki's
Dream (2001)
- Final Fantasy:
The Spirits Within (2001)
- Call o' the Glen (2001)
- The Joy Luck Club (1993)
- Street Fighter (1994)
- Mulan (voice) (1998)
- One Night Stand (1997)
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TV
- Inconceivable
(2005)
- As the World Turns(1988-1991)
- Single Guy, The (1995)
- Mister
Rogers' Neighborhood (1985)
- Links
Medical Student, 1995
Resident, 1999-2001
Chief Resident, September - October 2001
Attending, 2002-
Season 1 Episode 013 "Luck of the Draw"
- Season 1 Episode 021 "House of Cards"
Season 6 Episode 123 "Family
Matters" - Current
Medical Student, same year as Carter. She is
also called "Deb". She has a photographic memory and is very good at medicine. She also has a habit of upstaging Carter.
CHECKING INTO 'ER' Entertainment Weekly 03-17-95
NEW DOC MING-NA WEN
by Dan Snierson
Ming-Na Wen has this strange, almost-masochistic wish. "I would love to
make every mistake in the book," says the 26-year-old actress. "Choose
the wrong projects, say the wrong things, crash, hit rock bottom, and have to
start all over. Then I wouldn't worry, 'What if I make a mistake and go
down?'"
Her wish is looking more like a pipe dream now that she has landed a choice
recurring role as young resident Deb Chen on NBC's freshman-sensation hospital
drama ER. It's another step up the Hollywood ladder for Wen (who kept Kleenex in
business with a moving performance in The Joy Luck Club), though she's not quite
planning a straight climb. "I'm always throwing my agents curve
balls," she says, breaking for lunch at a Los Angeles cafe. "It's
like, 'Where is she? She's not doing films? She's doing television?'"
Wen certainly keeps ER's audience guessing-is Deb a brown-nosing competitor
or shy friend to her third-year classmate, John Carter? "Ming's extremely
subtle, which I really like," says Noah Wyle, who plays Carter. "She
brings a lot of levels and a lot of nuances to the part that aren't necessarily
in the text." Wen even brought her own latex gloves to her ER audition,
which required her character to perform a rectal exam sans K-Y. "Latex and
skin don't mix very well," she notes of her, uh, dry run.
Generally, it's been smooth going for the China-born, Pittsburgh-raised
Wen,
who was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1994. She
landed one of her first gigs out of Carnegie Mellon University as "town
virgin" Lein on As the World Turns (1989-91). Wen later won the role of the
piano-playing daughter in 1993's Joy Luck. She starred as a butt-kickin'
reporter in 1994's Street Fighter and is producing a play, Exit the Dragon, with
boyfriend Eric Michael Zee.
She and Zee view the road to success differently. "He wants to do it in
a slow-burning way; I want the fast track," says Wen. "So we're trying
to help each other. I'd love to slow down a bit." But on breakneck ER? She
wishes.
Season 1
Episode 14 - A cheerleading team is brought into the ER after eating LSD laced chocolates which Deb also eats without
realizing, she then spends the rest of the day wondering round the ER all spaced out.
Episode 19 - Deb has done less procedures than Carter so in order to catch up puts a central venous line into a patient but loses the guide wire inside the patient.
Deb runs out of the ER. Carter finds her later at the family home (a mansion). Deb
realizes she does not care about patients and is more interested in the science, she quits medicine.
Season 6
Episode 21 - Returns to the ER as a Resident. Reveals that she went back to medicine four months after
quitting after she saved the life of a man who collapsed.
Season 7
Third-year
Resident. Finds out in Episode
136 "Homecoming" that she is pregnant with a
baby boy. In Episode 141 "The Visit", she tells nurse Frank "Rambo"
Bacon that she wants to put their baby boy up for adoption. Carter is
right by her side the entire time. He and Jing-Mei, or as he calls her
still, "Deb", have been friends for many years. He helps her through
the adoption process and is there when the baby boy is born. Looks as
if their rivalry from Season 1 is way behind them.
Season 8
Jing-Mei
is awarded the Chief Attending position, but can not seem to
please Kerry. Kerry ends up using her as a scapegoat and she
quits. She later
returns after the holidays wanting her job
back under certain terms, her own.
During the last episode of Season 8, Jing-Mei
runs a high fever and has been in contact with
two children who may have small pox. The
little girl dies of whatever the pox is, and
we are not sure of what Jing-Mei's condition
will be.
Season 9
Jing-Mei is still the same, but she has
found an interest in Gregory Pratt.
Season 10
Jing-Mei gets tired of Pratt not taking their relationship seriously, so she
calls it quits. She is tired of seeing him flirt with the women in the
ER. Dr. Chen spends a lot of time in China and deals with the death of
her mother.
