Daniel Henney

* born November 28, 1979, is an American expatriate actor in South Korea. 
* his father is  of American with Irish and American Indian background, while his mother is a Korean-American adoptee 
* debuted as a model in several Korean and foreign ads, including a Burberry ad with Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow
*  most famously co-starred in the Korean hit drama, My Name is Kim Sam Soon. 
*  landed his first role in a Western film as David North (Agent Zero) in the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

* born on November 13, 1972  is a member of a Japanese idol group SMAP
* many of the TV dramas he starred in produced high ratings in Japan.
* played a leading role in the teen drama Asunaro Hakusho (あすなろ白書) as Osamu Toride in 1993, after making  
   low-budget dramas with fellow band members, which became a phenomenal hit in Japan, making big stars out of 
   Kimura and the rest of  the band
* 1994, a phrase "Kimutaku Syndrome" started to be observed in some media. The term refers to a phenomenon in 
   which some young boys copy his fashion.
*  his nine-year relationship with his longtime girlfriend Kaorin in 1999 has ended
* married to  Shizuka Kudo, another pop idol in 2000 and his first daughter, Kokomi, was  born in 2001, and his 
   second daughter, Mitsuki, was born in 2003
* will appear in a 2008 film produced in France, I Come with the Rain with Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett and 
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Bae Yong Jun


*  born August 29, 1972 in Seoul, South Korea
*  a South Korean actor best known for his roles in numerous television dramas. 
*  became famous for his role, "Winter Sonata," despite the fact that it was a TV drama and not a movie, razed all of 
   Japan with as much as 20% of the country watching it. This popularity gave both Bae and his co-star Choi Ji-woo a 
   chance to shift their main stage from Korea to Japan, and gave way to Korean wave.
*  he played the role of Jo Won in a controversial film called "Untold Scandal", maing rave reviews from critics and 
    audiences from all over asia.
*  according to the May 3, 2005 issue of NEWSWEEK (Asian International Edition), Bae's fan base covers a wide 
    range of Asian female demographics, including middle aged and married women who mob him when he pays a 
    visit to a particular Asian country. Newsweek also notes that "Japanese women are taking up the study of Korean 
    language and history" because of Bae.

*  born September 27, 1961 is a Hong Kong Cantopop star, movie actor and producer. 
*  he has been Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actor since the 1990s.
*  the first lead role that made his initial popularity was the TVB series Hunting in 1982.
*  he won his very first Hongkong Film Award for Best Actor via the movie Running Out Of Time.
*  won as Best Actor in the prestigious  Golden Horse Award for his performance in Infernal Affairs 3 in 2004. 
*  his movie Infernal Affairs was remade into a Hollywood film by Martin Scorsese,entitled "The Departed" which 
   stars Leonardo Dicaprio and Jack Nicholson, which won Best Picture and Best Director for Scorsese at the 
   Oscars   in 2007.
*  Western audiences may also be familiar with his performance in the House of Flying Daggers, opposite Zhang 
   Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro
*   was awarded "No.1 Box Office Actor 1985-2005" of Hong Kong
*  also entered into Guinness World Records for "Most Awards Won By A Canto-Pop Male Artist".
*  by April 2000, Andy Lau had won an unprecedented 292 awards, for a singing career that began in 1988



Jerry Yan

* born January 1, 1977, is an actor/model and a member of Taiwanese boy band JVKV (formerly F4)
* his meteoric rise into fame came when he starred along 3 other equally good-looking new comers in the 
   phenomenal Taiwanese drama Meteor Garden and its sequel, Meteor Garden II, creating the so-called "F4"-
   craze" , making him  the rest of F4 (Vic,Ken,Vanness)   overnight sensation  among women of all ages 
   across Asia,including non- chinese speaking countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines, and his group is 
   still currently   enjoying popularity in Japan.
*  his first and only movie is Magic Kitchen with Sammi Cheng and Andy Lau.
*  has released 3 albums with F4, and one solo album, released in 2004;
*  proving that good looks could really get far, he won Most Popular Newcomer in the 12th 
   Chinese Music Awards
*  in 2005, he signed out from his management company and put up his very own management, StarJerry Co.,  
   leaving his fellow F4 members .
* recently starred in taiwan drama The Hospital and will be seen soon in a new drama "Hotshots".



Aaron Kwok

*  born October 26, 1965) is a popular Hong Kong singer and film actor. 
*  along with  Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai ,they are referred to as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings. 
*  has been dubbed "Hong Kong's Michael Jackson" for his onstage dancing displays.
*  recipient of the Ten Most Outstanding Young Persons Award, in 2003.
*  has starred in numerous  movies, television drama series and commercials.
*  won as Best Leading Actor at the 42nd Golden Horse Awards ceremony on November 13, 2005 for his role in the 
    movie Divergence, beating veteran Hong Kong star Tony Leung Ka-Fai .
*  he won the Best Actor Award again at the 43rd Golden Horse Awards on November 24, 2006 for his role in the film 
    'After This Our Exile'. 
*  only the second actor in the history of the Golden Horse Awards, to win the Best Actor Award consecutively; the 
    first one was Jackie Chan  in the 90s.
*  has a collection of sports cars, including F512M, F355, F50, F360 Modena, Enzo Ferrari, F430 Spider and 599GTB 
    of Ferrari; a yellow Porsche 911 GT2; Diablo, Gallardo and Murciélago of Lamborghini; SL600 and SLK 55 AMG of 
    Mercedes-Benz; and a black Pagani Zonda F And His Cheapest Car,The Nissan GTR
*  according to rumours, has  dated Japanese actress Norika Fujiwara, with whom he co-starred in China Strike 
     Force.
^{*  a}mateur of motor racing; has participated in a Ferrari F355 race at the Macau Grand Prix, a Formula Campus 
    charity race, etc. 

Ananda Everingham


*  born May 31, 1982 in Thailand is a Lao- Australian film actor and model,working primarily in Thai films.
*   he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter, which was recently remade in 
     Hollywood,starring Dawson Creek alumnus, Joshua Jackson.
*   the son of an Australian father, Bangkok-based photojournalist John Everingham, and a Laotian mother, Keo 
    Sirisomphone, who's  story was loosely dramatized in the 1983 NBC television movie, Love Is Forever, starring 
    Michael Landon and Laura Gemser, which tells of a photojournalist who scuba dives under the Mekong to rescue 
    his lover from communist ruled Laos in 1977. It was this movie that in 1983 also led to the senior Everingham 
    mentoring Cork Graham, who within months was captured by militia on a forbidden Vietnamese treasure island 
    and held for 11 months in a political prison. 
*   was discovered at the age 14 while working part-time in his family's Indian restaurant, Himali Cha Cha,  by Khun 
    Mingkwan of GMM Grammy, Thailand's largest entertainment company. 
*   other film credits ,inlcude  the horror-comedy, Ghost Delivery and the teen-slasher movie, 303 Fear Faith 
     Revenge; the Singaporean romance film, The Leap Years; in 2008, he played the lead roles in the romantic 
     dramas Me ... Myself, and Bangkok Time. 
*   he had featured roles in the Singaporean film Pleasure Factory, and in Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Ploy. 
*   he has been cast in the 2008 film by Nonzee Nimibutr, Queen of Langkasuka. 
*   on June 5th, 2008 his new movie Sabaidee Luang Prabang is scheduled to open in theaters,said to be the 
     first Lao feature film in 33 years.
*  will be shooting soon an independent film in the Philippines, entitled "Kalayaan".

Rain

* Real name: Jeong Ji-hoon (정지훈), born 25 June 1982
*  is a male Korean pop singer, dancer, model, and actor.
*  made it to People's Most Beautiful People list for the first time(2007), in its "First-Time Beauties 2007" section
*   topped Time's open online poll(2007), beating Stephen Colbert by 100,000 votes
*  Colbert jokingly retaliated by producing a parody of Rain's music video for "Ways to Avoid the Sun" called "He's 
    Singin' In Korean". Stephen Colbert has since challenged Rain to a dance-off "or a cuddle-off, or a spoon-off".
*  on May 5, 2008, Rain appeared in a "surprise" guest segment at the end of The Colbert Report, and proceeded to 
    engage Stephen in a dance-off. In the end, Rain won by causing the Dance Dance Revolution machine they were 
    competing on to overload and explode.
*  seen recently in the Hollywood movie,"Speedracer", by Wachowski brothers of Matrix fame; which made a dismal 
    box office results.
*  currently filming his first hollywood- starrer, "Ninja Assasin", also produced by the Wachowski brothers.


Wu Chun



*   born on October 10, 1979
*   a Brunei-born  actor, singer,  model, and gym instructor.
*   the only non-Taiwanese member of the boy band Fahrenheit, 
*   known for his roles in the Taiwanese idol dramas Romantic Princess , Hanazakarino Kimitachihe  and Tokyo 
     Juliet 
*    grauated from the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. 
*    also played basketball for Brunei's national team.^[
*    speaks — with varying degrees of fluency — Hokkien, English, Malay, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
*    manages a family-owned gym club, Fitness Zone in Brunei. 
*    as of  Aug 2007, Wu is appointed as the chairman of newly opened Palm Garden Hotel and its neighbouring 
      multi-story Fitness Zone centre in Brunei.
*    the last and oldest member to join Fahrenheit.
*    other drama credits: The X-Family, KO One
*    will be seen soon along Jerry Yan in the taiwan drama "Hotshot".
*    currently filming a movie in Shanghai with  Charlene Choi, Hongkong artist and memberof pop duo Twins .


Honorable Mentions:

Mike He (Taiwan)
Lee Dong Gun (Korea)
Jericho Rosales (Philippines)
Piolo Pascual (Philippines)
Dylan Kuo (Taiwan)
Huang Xiaoming (China)
Louis Koo (Hongkong)
Vanness Wu (Taiwan)
Wang Leehom (Taiwan)
Seven (Korea)
Nicolas Tse (Hongkong)