John Cho

Also known as John Yohan Cho

American actor (born 1972)

Person · Open Library

Works: 5

Top works

Troublemaker 5c Signed Solid Prepack
Troublemaker
88 Poems By Cho
SPAM-Ku
Spam-Ku

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Film & TV

Acting · Seoul, South Korea

John Cho is a Korean American actor best known as playing Harold in the Harold and Kumar film series, as well as playing helmsman Hikaru Sulu in 2009's Star Trek.

Known for

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother2026
Murderbot — Captain2025
Long Story Short — (voice)2025
Tempest — Anderson Miller2025
The Graduates — John2024
Afraid — Curtis2024
Good Men — Self2024
The Sympathizer — James Yoon2024
Ghosted — The Leopard2023
Praise Petey — Bandit (voice)2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Netherlands
Active from: 1972

Member of

Viva La Union

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 72
Total plays: 285

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Academic profile · OpenAlex

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Works: 1,549
Cited by: 66,728
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5562-270X

Research areas

MedicineInternal medicineOncologyCancerCancer research

Most cited works

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,620x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,712x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,354x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,338x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x

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Quotes

“…If you start thinking about representation too much—and you think about what movie should exist for an Asian-American person, and for an Asian-American male, or what you would like to see an Asian-American male doing on TV or in movies, even though that’s a legitimate thing to think about—it clouds my ability to go, “Oh, that’s just a fun thing. I’d like to throw myself into that situation”...”
“I’ve always said that it really bothers me that so much of Asian representation in cinema has been people running away from their Asian-ness to find love elsewhere…”
“I’ve spent my life trying to figure out what Asian-ness means…but you know, I really gotta figure out what whiteness means. We all have to figure out what it means, apparently, for our survival.”

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Key facts

Born: Cho Yo-Han , ( 1972-06-16 ) June 16, 1972 (age 53) , Seoul , South Korea
Citizenship: United States
Education: University of California, Berkeley ( BA )
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1996–present
Spouse: Kerri Higuchi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
Hangul: 조요한
Hanja: 趙要漢
Rr: Jo Yohan
Mr: Cho Yohan

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Wikidata facts

Image: John Cho in 2018.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: John Cho
date of birth: 1972-06-16
start of work period: 1997-00-00
social media followers: 245923
name in native language: John Cho
birth name: 조요한

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Article

John Yo-Han Cho (Korean: 조요한; born June 16, 1972) is an American actor. As a performer, he is noted for his subtle and understated style of acting. He is known for his roles as John/MILF guy #2 in the American Pie film series (1999–2012), Harold Lee in the Harold & Kumar film series (2004–2011), and Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek reboot film series (2009–2016).

Cho became the first Asian American actor cast as a romantic lead in a romantic comedy series when he played Henry Higgs in the sitcom Selfie (2014) and the first to headline a mainstream Hollywood thriller film when he starred in Searching (2018), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.