<Li> Lin Chan Wen (mother) </Li> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.ming-na.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Ming - Na Wen (Chinese: 溫明娜; pinyin: Wēn Míngnà; born November 20, 1963) is an American actress . (She has been credited with and without her family name "Wen", but most credits since the late 1990s have been without it . She has been known by such variants of her name as Ming - Na, Ming Na, Ming Na Wen and Ming Wen .) She is known for playing the role of Melinda May in the ABC action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and for voicing Fa Mulan, one of the Disney Princesses, in the films Mulan and Mulan II, the video game Kingdom Hearts II, and in the Disney animated series Sofia the First . She is due to reprise her role as Mulan in Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck - It Ralph 2 . </P> <P> Wen is also known for her role as Dr. Jing - Mei "Deb" Chen on the medical drama series ER . She was the series lead of the show Inconceivable, a medical drama that was aired on NBC, but the show was short - lived . The show is one of the few American television shows with an Asian American series lead . She is also known for her roles on the main casts of the animated series The Batman and the sci - fi series Stargate Universe . Besides television, she is notable for starring in the films The Joy Luck Club, Street Fighter, and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within . </P>

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