Harry Shum, Jr.
Place of Birth: Limón, Costa Rica
Date of Birth: April 28, 1982
Ethnicity: Chinese
Harry Shum, Jr. is an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and singer. His roles include the films Crazy Rich Asians and Everything Everywhere All at Once.
He was born in Limón, Costa Rica, to Chinese parents. His father is from Guangzhou and his mother is from Hong Kong. Harry’s family moved to San Francisco, California, when he was six. Harry speaks English, Cantonese, and Spanish.
Harry is married to actress and dancer Shelby Rabara, with whom he has a daughter. Shelby is of Filipino descent.
It’s too bad they couldn’t make his character ‘Latino’ like he is. I think Americans need to be shown that Latin America is made up of various races, most people here that I come to contact with think that only brown/mestizo people are representative of Latin America.
I think it’s nice that he knows not only english and chinese, but spanish as well. wow. it’d be so nice to be trilingual.
Costa Rica received a lot of immigrants during the XVIII, XIX and XX century, from Spaniards, Italians, Jamaicans to Chinese, the last three groups migrated to build the atlantic cost train, in Limon where Harry were born ;)
WOW! He’s Chinese but was born in Costa Rica.that’s awesome!Go asians!
Ah, I love Mike Change on Glee :)
I used to think he was Chinese with some indigenous tocuhes in his bloodline.Either way,he’s very cute.