Half-Asians

Cory Lee Urhahn is an actress and R&B singer-songwriter from Vancouver. She is Chinese on her mom’s side and German on her dad’s side.

Her acting credits include the MTV movie 2ge+her in 2000 and the Canadian TV series Instant Star in 2007-2008, and she currently has a recurring role as a teacher on the Canadian series Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Also, she has released two well-received studio albums (What a Difference a Day Makes in 2005, and Sinful Innocence in 2007), with a third album due out this summer.

You can follow her Twitter, her Facebook profile, her Facebook page, her MySpace, and her YouTube channel. She also has a fashion blog, a music blog, and an official website.

You can learn more about her at Wikipedia and IMDb. And check out this Toro Magazine article which includes several great photos (including the one above).

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Surely I’m not the only person who’s noticed that the Disney Channel features plenty of mixed-race girls in its programming. (Whereas, it features few if any mixed-race boys, mostly preferring white actors, especially for lead roles. But that’s a discussion for another website.)

Off the top of my head, the list of mixed-race Disney actresses includes Vanessa Hudgens, half-Mexicans Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, and Miley Cyrus (just kidding about that last one, though Miley does have a half-Asian look-alike who happens to be an amateur pornstar: search for “sasha brooke tube8” ). Well here is another actress to add to that list.

Kelsey Asbill Chow is an actress from Columbia, South Carolina, who may be best known for playing Gigi on the teen soap One Tree Hill from 2005 to 2009. This past year, she took a break from her studies at Columbia University in the City of New York (continuing in the tradition of teen actresses on hiatus from Columbia such as Lauryn Hill, Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, and Emmy Rossum) to star in the Disney Channel movie Den Brother as well as on the Disney XD series Pair of Kings.

Like fellow actress Malese Jow, she is half-Chinese and half-Caucasian/Native American.

For more info, check out her website, her Wikipedia entry, and her IMDb entry. Also check out this interview and this fascinating NY Post article about how she (and other teen stars) decided whether to attend college.

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I gotta admit that I’ve been looking forward to this post for some time. After the jump is a collection of photos and videos of the beautiful AV actress Maria Ozawa, who turns 25 today.

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This week I am featuring a couple of ladies that have been requested by the most number of readers. First up is the one mentioned the most often (and who I promised months ago to feature at some point), Kristin Kreuk.

For many people, Kristin Kreuk was the first half-Asian girl that they had ever seen: the half-Chinese, half-Dutch actress has starred on the television series Smallville since 2001. Not coincidentally, she was also probably the most beautiful girl that they had ever seen up to that point.

As usual, check out Wikipedia and IMDb for more info.

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Tomorrow is Christmas, which seems like a good excuse for me to post some pics of Leah Dizon wearing a festive red outfit. Merry Christmas!

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Kimiko Zakreski is a half-Japanese, half-Polish snowboarder from Alberta. She represented Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. She also starred in the MTV Canada reality series Summer Sessions.

She has been prominently featured in countless lists of the hottest Olympians (including this one and this one and this one) as well as on The VERY HOT HOT Half Asian Group on Facebook.

Besides being a snowboarder, she is also a real estate agent.

Kimi has a website and a Facebook page. Also check out her Wikipedia entry, this interview, this article, and these photos by Jonathan Cruz.

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Continuing on the theme of Next Top Model contestants in the Oceanic region, here is Australia’s Next Top Model Cycle 5 contestant Laura Mitchell. She made it to the sixth episode before being eliminated (another victim of the questionable Next Top Model makeover).

Laura’s Chinese mother is from Malaysia, and her father is from England. She has elicited comparisons to another part-Asian model, Chanel Iman.

Laura is on Facebook and Model Mayhem. Also check out her profile on her modeling agency’s website, and this thread discussing her appearance on the show.

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Amelia Akiko Nakagawa Gough was a contestant on Cycle 2 of New Zealand’s Next Top Model this past fall. She made it to the fifth episode before being eliminated.

The knock on this half-Japanese beauty was that she had a thicker figure than the typical model and that she looked kinda hoochie in her photos. Well those are two qualities that I’m not going to complain about.

You can follow Amelia on Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. Also check out her profile on her modeling agency’s website, and this thread discussing her appearance on the show.

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