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Kenny Leu is an up-and-coming actor. He is known for his compelling lead roles in small-budget films that became big hits: Dragon Ball Z: Light of Hope (2017) is a 33-minute film on YouTube with over 17M views.
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- Actor, Stunts, Producer
Kenny Leu, Actor. Gohan for Dragonball Z: Light of Hope (Robot Underdog). Also seen on NCIS (CBS), The Player (NBC), Zoo (CBS), & Scream (MTV)!
18K Followers, 1,998 Following, 320 Posts - Kenny Leu (@thekennyleu) on Instagram: "We are more similar than we are made to feel 🌿 ️ 💥 DBZ: Light of Hope, Midway, NCIS 🎥 My latest: A Shot Through the Wall @SXSW - Now on Apple TV!"
Oct 29, 2022 · Kenny Leu is an actor who has quickly established himself as one of Hollywood’s most prominent Asian American performers. He is most known as Gohan from the Dragon Ball Z: Light of Hope web series, which has over 34 million views.
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- Born in Taipei, Taiwan
- Raised in The San Francisco Bay Area
- Has A Mechanical Engineering Degree
- Does Wushu
- Specializes in The Chinese Broadsword
- Specializes in The Chinese Staff
- Speaks Mandarin
- Was in Dragonball Z: Light of Hope
- Was in A Shot Through The Wall
- Plays A Chinese Partisan in Midway
Leu was born in Taipei, which would be the capital of Taiwan. The topic of whether a person from Taiwan can be considered Chinese or not is a complicated one, not least because Chinese is a rather ambiguous term that can have more than one meaning. However, since Leu’s own bio says that his family was a “modest Chinese household,” it seems safe to ...
Regardless, Leu was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, which has been a popular destination for Chinese immigrants for a very long time. In part, this is because the Pacific Coast was much more accessible than the Atlantic Coast for people coming from East Asia. However, it should also be noted that once Chinese immigrants had managed to establi...
Leu went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley. From said institution, he managed to get a mechanical engineering degree. Moreover, Leu actually put said degree to good use by participating in the founding of not one but two successful tech start-ups before he switched over to his current choice of career.
From 2010 to 2012, Leu was on the United States Wushu team. With that said, it is important to note that wushu isn’t a single Chinese martial art. Instead, it is one of the terms that can be used to refer to the full range of Chinese martial arts that have been created over the course of centuries. Unsurprisingly, the sheer number of Chinese martia...
One of Leu’s specialties as a martial artist is the Chinese broadsword. For those who are curious, Chinese swords can be sorted into two categories called the jian and the dao. The jian is a double-edged straight sword, while the dao is a single-edged sword that tends to come with a curve of some kind. Translating jian and dao into English can be a...
Speaking of which, Leu also specializes in the Chinese staff called the gun. Perhaps unsurprisingly, said weapon is considered to be one of the four major weapons in Chinese martial arts, with the other three being the spear called the qiang and the two swords called the jian and the dao. Each of these weapons has its own nickname based on its perc...
Since Leu was born in Taiwan, it is perhaps unsurprising to learn that he is capable of speaking the Mandarin dialect of Chinese. In short, Mandarin is the single most common Chinese dialect, so much so that it is spoken by 70 percent of Chinese speakers. For most of the last millennium, the Chinese capital has been situated in Mandarin-speaking re...
It is interesting to note that Leu was in the live-action fan project called Dragonball Z: Light of Hope. In short, Dragonball Z had a storyline in which a character named Trunks returned to the past for the purpose of preventing a future catastrophe. He proved to be very popular, so much so that there was a special that covered what happened when ...
Later, Leu was in an indie project called A Shot Through the Wall, which is “inspired” by the shooting of Akai Gurley that happened in November of 2014. What happened was that a pair of police officers were in the unlit stairwell of a housing project in New York City when Officer Peter Liang’s drawn gun discharged, thus resulting in the death of Ak...
In Midway, Leu plays a Chinese partisan. Generally speaking, the Chinese involvement in World War II doesn’t get much mention in English-language media about the conflict. However, the Chinese part of the conflict actually started up well before Pearl Harbor. There are those who would argue that it started in 1931 when Japan invaded Manchuria befor...
Jan 27, 2022 · Kenny Leu is an Asian-American actor who stars in A Shot Through The Wall, a film based on a real-life police shooting. He talks about his aspirations, his co-star Tzi Ma, and his dream role in a film about ping pong diplomacy.
Feb 12, 2022 · An in-depth exclusive interview with actor KENNY LEU who steps into the spotlight and leads the way with Aimee Long’s powerful film, A SHOT THROUGH THE WALL....
