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Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'

Ming-Na Wen

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Ming-Na Wen
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 20
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