James Huang

Acting

James Huang (born January 11, 1977, in Queens, New York City) is an American actor, director, filmmaker, and acting coach of Chinese descent, 5′ 10″ (178 cm) tall. The youngest of ten children, he lost his father at age five, graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in 1994, and earned a B.A. in Theater Arts and Cinema from Rutgers University on a full scholarship (1998), where he also became a competitive 3rd-degree black belt in Taekwondo and captain of the varsity football team. His first professional job was as a resident actor at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he attended workshops by the legendary acting coach Uta Hagen, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue film and television. He runs his own production company, Yellow Sun Films, through which he has written, produced, and directed independent films that have screened at festiva…