Graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinema Television.


Speaks fluent English, Vietnamese, Cantonese and Mandarin. When phoning his mother during the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) movie shoot, he referred to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as bearded man 1 and bearded man 2. Attended Alhambra High School in Alhambra, California, USA. Was number 67 on vh1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars" (2005)