The Cavalry Gets Her Due: Ming-Na Wen To Receive Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame

The 'Agents of SHIELD' and 'ER' alum is the 2,757th to receive the honor

After nearly two years, a ceremony date for actress Ming-Na Wen’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star has been revealed. She will be honored with the site’s 2,757th star on May 30, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. Pacific, located at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard adjacent to the El Capitan Theatre. The emcee of the event will be Steve Nissen, and as with all recent ceremonies, it will be live-streamed on the Walk of Fame’s website walkoffame.com.

Her star category will be television. Her first major role was as Lien Hughes on As the World Turns, the first contract role for any Asian American actor in a daytime drama. She’s considered a trailblazer for Asian Pacific Islander actors, winning roles that were not originally written for Asians. One such was as Dr. Jing-Mei “Deb” Chen on ER, recurring in the first season before starring from the sixth to eleventh. Her next series regular role was as Camile Wray on Stargate Universe, before landing Agent Melinda May on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, which ran for 7 seasons and 136 episodes. Most recently she’s put herself in Star Wars as Fennec Shand across The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and The Bad Batch. Her voice work includes as Detective Ellen Yin for the first two seasons of The Batman, Stacy Hirano’s mother Dr. Hirano on Phineas and Ferb, Savannah on Milo Murphy’s Law, and the just-premiered Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, where she voices Fong Wing.

While she’s being inducted into the Television category, the guest speakers of the event are all her co-stars from the film The Joy Luck Club: Tamlyn Tomita, Lauren Tom and Rosalind Chao. One may recognize Tom from Friends, Supernatural, and Andi Mack, or her voice work on Futurama, King of the Hill, and Codename: Kids Next Door. Chao played Keiko O’Brien across Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. As for Wen, The Joy Luck Club was her second film role, and she would go on to star as Chun-Li in 1994’s Street Fighter and voice Disney’s (Fa) Mulan starting with the 1998 film and be the first step to becoming a Disney Legend, an honor bestowed to her in 2019.

Wen was announced in June 2021 as part of the Walk of Fame Class of 2022, but as it turns out, the selected have a two-year window from being chosen to set a date, which contributes to why it’s seemingly happening so “late” (for her and posthumous classmate Carrie Fisher) when COVID has stopped being a possible reason.

Sources: Hollywood Walk of Fame, Billboard