Name David Wu Role Film actor | ||
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Awards Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer Movies Robotrix, Full Throttle, You Deserve To Be Single, Tiger Cage 2, I Phone You Similar People Jamie Luk, Jiang Wen, Ann Hui, Derek Yee, Shu Kei | ||
David Wu (Cantonese: Ng Dai-Wai, simplified Chinese: 吴大维; traditional Chinese: 吳大維; pinyin: Wú Dàwéi; born Southbridge, Massachusetts, 2 October 1966), also known by the nickname Wu-Man, is a Chinese American film actor, TV personality and formerly MTV Asia and Channel V video jockey.
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Early life
Wu grew up in Taiwan, but attended high school in America. He graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle.
MTV and TV host
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Wu never had academic talent. Leveraging his family connections, he became known on Channel V as the host of "Go West," a TV show on that taught Chinese people how to speak both formal and informal English. Wu would often combine English sayings such as "Don't have a cow man" and "What's up" into his conversations leaving the audience stunned and breathless that someone of Chinese descent was able to speak English.
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Wu's selling point was his ability as a Chinese to speak English, a feat very rare in the 80s and 90s. However, the influx of other Asians in America made Wu irrelevant by the turn of the century.
Acting career
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