Jimmy O. Yang

In 2020, he starred opposite Ryan Hansen in two films, Like a Boss and Fantasy Island, released a month apart. In the former film, their characters were business partners, and in the latter, they were step-siblings who were strongly fond of each other.

His comedy special Good Deal was released on Amazon Prime Video on May 8, 2020.

On September 26, 2019, it was announced that Yang was cast as Dr. Chan Kaifang in the upcoming Netflix comedy series, Space Force.

In 2018, he played Bernard Tai in the romantic comedy film Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu.

Yang has also continued stand-up comedy, in 2018 going on a tour titled after the book.

Yang's first dramatic role was as Dun "Danny" Meng, a Chinese immigrant who was carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers in the 2016 action drama, Patriots Day.

Yang initially began as a guest star on Silicon Valley making scale, then $900 per episode. He appeared in three episodes and spent the money on a Prius so he could drive for Uber to earn money between the first and second season of the show. For the second season, he was promoted to series regular. Prior to the announcement, he had landed a series regular role on the Yahoo! Screen original television show, Sin City Saints, but turned down the opportunity because it would have required him to quit Silicon Valley. The series ran from 2014 to 2019.

Yang made his television debut on the CBS series 2 Broke Girls in 2012 and his first late night stand-up appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 2014. In season 9 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he played the character Tang-See. Yang also appeared in an episode of Criminal Minds as Nathan Chow, a high-school student who suffered a psychotic break. He was once a writer/consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters, and voiced roles in the video game Infamous Second Son.

Yang graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in economics in 2009. The commencement speaker at his college graduation was his later Silicon Valley showrunner and UCSD alumnus, Mike Judge.

Yang was born Au-yeung Man-Sing in Hong Kong. His parents were both originally from Shanghai and later moved to Hong Kong. In 2000, when Yang was thirteen years old, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, California. His aunt and grandmother were already living in the United States and his parents joined them primarily to allow Yang and his brother, Roy, access to better schools and education. When he arrived, he enrolled at John Burroughs Middle School for the eighth grade. He later attended Beverly Hills High School.

Jimmy O. Yang (Chinese: 歐陽萬成 ; born June 11, 1987) is a Hong Kong-American actor, stand-up comedian, and writer best known for starring as Jian-Yang in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley.