Ke Huy Quan

Ke Huy Quan (born August 20, 1971), also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is an American actor. As a child actor, Quan rose to fame playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Data in The Goonies (1985). Following a few roles in the 1990s, he took a 19-year acting hiatus, during which he worked as a stunt choreographer and assistant director. Quan returned to acting with the family adventure Finding ʻOhana (2021), followed by the critically acclaimed Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), a performance that won him various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Quan is one of two actors of Asian descent to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Academy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. He is also playing Ouroboros "O.B." in the ongoing Disney+ television series Loki (2021-2023), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Early life Ke Huy Quan was born on August 20, 1971, in Saigon, South Vietnam. He was born into a family of Chinese descent with eight siblings. In 1975, the North Vietnamese occupied the South and took control of Vietnam; three years later, Quan fled from Vietnam with his family. He, along with his father and five siblings, fled to Hong Kong, while Quan's mother and three other siblings went to Malaysia. After staying at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, Quan's entire family was admitted to the United States as part of the Refugee Admissions Program in 1979. In the U.S., Quan grew up in California, where he attended the Mount Gleason Junior High School in Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles and Alhambra High School in Alhambra.