{"id":11938,"date":"2012-01-09T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:01:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-09T23:01:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:01:36","slug":"Junie-Hoang-is--older--Asian-American-actress-suing-Amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11938","title":{"rendered":"Junie Hoang is “older” Asian American actress suing Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the infamous “Jane Doe” — who’s suing because IMDB revealed her age on the site?<\/a><\/p>\n

Well she’s been revealed! It\u2019s Junie Hoang aka Huong Hoang.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit caused a frenzy of online speculation over who the actress might be \u2014 as well as a bit of soul-searching about ageism in youth-obsessed Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Women over 40 make up 24.3 percent of the U.S. population, but a casting analysis by the Screen Actors Guild showed actresses over 40 get just 12.5 percent of roles for television and film.<\/strong> Men of that age are also about a quarter of the population, but nearly equal their ranks in casting.<\/p>\n

Last month a federal judge in Seattle ordered the lawsuit dismissed, saying the actress had no grounds to proceed with an anonymous complaint. Hoang refiled it under her real name.<\/p>\n

Hoang’s IMDb profile says she got her start in dance at 16, was the salutatorian of her high school class and earned a degree in biomedical science from Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. It suggests she can play characters ages 26-33.<\/p>\n

She played Sandy in “Gingerdead Man 3,” a sequel to a 2005 Gary Busey movie in which “an evil yet adorable gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer,” according to a description on IMDb.<\/p>\n

Other credits include a part as a triage nurse in the television series “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant,” and as the part of Janet in “My Big Phat Hip Hop Family.”<\/p>\n

Check out her sense of humor!<\/strong>
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