Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 - February 2, 1961) was the first notable Chinese American Hollywood actress. Born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles, California, a daughter of a laundryman, she began playing bit parts as a teenager in the early days of Hollywood. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Anna May Wong. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_May_Wong