Ke Huy Quan won the Oscar and became the first Vietnamese-born actor to win the award

Ke Huy Quan won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his work in “Everything Everywhere at the same time,” and became the first Vietnamese-born actor to win the award in his category. My mother is 84 years old and is at home watching me. Mom, look at this, I just won an Oscar!” he began. “I spent a year in a refugee camp and now I’m here. Stories like this can only happen in a movie, I can’t believe it happened to me. This is Hollywood!” he added, excited to receive the statuette at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.The actor was born on August 20, 1971 in Saigon, South Vietnam, from where he emigrated with his family. With his father, and four of his seven siblings in a refugee camp in Hong Kong. While his mother and three other siblings fled to Malaysia. Finally, the clan immigrated to the United States in 1979. And at age 12, he began working in Hollywood in “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Perdition” (1984), while a year later he starred in “The Goonies.” Years later, Quan walked away from acting due to a lack of opportunities. Question that he made visible, when he won the Gotham Prize and said that at this time of the year, but last year, “all I wanted was simply a job.” “Just when he said he couldn’t get better, he did it,” he had said at the time. In closing, he thanked his wife, Echo Quan: “He always told me my time would come. Dreams are important, I almost gave up mine. To those who are there: keep your dreams alive.”

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