Ke Huy Quan (Chinese: 關繼威; Vietnamese: Quan Kế Huy; born August 20, 1970), also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is a Vietnam-born Chinese-American actor and stunt choreographer. He is best known for his roles as Short Round in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), with Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, and Philip Stone; and Data in Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985), with Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, John Matuszak, Ann Ramsey, Robert Davi, and Joe Pantoliano. Other notable films in the 90s and 200s include Encino Man (1992), with Astin, Brendan Fraser, Mariette Hartley, Richard Masur, and Pauly Shore; and Jeffrey Kay’s Second Time Around (2002), with Ekin Cheng and Cecilia Cheung.
He returned to acting in the 2020s beginning in Jude Weng’s Finding ‘Ohana (2021), with Kea Peahu, Alex Aiono, Lindsay Watson, Owen Vaccaro, Kelly Hu, Branscombe Richmond, Chris Parnell, Marc Evan Jackson, and Ricky Garcia. He earned various awards including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Daniels’s Everything Everywhere All at Once (2021), with Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Other films of the 2020s include Love Hurts (2025), with Ariana DeBose, Daniel Wu, Marshawn Lynch, Mustafa Shakir, Lio Tipton, Rhys Darby, André Eriksen, and Astin; Anthony & Joe Russo’s The Electric State (2025), with Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Jason Alexander, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Slate, Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci.
Voice roles include Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024), with Jack Black, Awkwafina, Bryan Cranston, Hong, Ian McShane, Ronny Chieng, Lori Tan Chinn, Dustin Hoffman, and Viola Davis; Zootopia 2 (2025), with Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Idris Elba, Alan Tudyk, Nate Torrence, Don Lake, Bonnie Hunt, Jenny Slate, Fortune Feimster, Andy Samberg, David Strathairn, Patrick Warburton, Quinta Brunson and Danny Trejo; Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026), with Eric Nam, Dave Bautista, Jessica Matten, Román Zaragoza, Dionne Quan, Taika Waititi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Ronny Chieng, Ken Jeong, Dee Bradley Baker, Steven Yeun, and Freida Pinto.
TV shows include Together We Stand (1986-1987), with Dee Wallace, Elliott Gould, Scott Grimes, Julia Migenes, Natasha Bobo, and Katie O’Neill; the last 2 seasons of the sitcom Head of the Class (1990-1991), with Howard Hesseman, Billy Connelly, William G. Schilling, Jeannetta Arnette, Dan Frischman, Robin Givens, Khrystyne Haje, Tony O’Dell, Brian Robbins, Kimberly Russell, Dan Schneider, Rain Pryor, Michael DeLorenzo, and De’voreaux White; American Born Chinese (2023), with Ben Wang, Yeo Yann Yann, Chin Han, Jimmy Liu, Sydney Taylor, Daniel Wu, and Yeoh; and season 2 of Marvel’s Loki (2923), with Tom Hiddleston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Tara Strong, Owen Wilson, Sophia Di Martino, Sasha Lane, Jack Veal, DeObia Oparei, Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Majors, Rafael Casal, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, and Neil Ellice, and Richard Dixon.
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)** – directed by Steven Spielberg
- The Goonies (1985)** – directed by Richard Donner
- Passenger: Sugisarishi hibi (1987) – directed by Akiyoshi Kimata
- Breathing Fire (1991) – directed by Lou Kennedy & Brandon De-Wilde
- Encino Man (1992)* – directed by Les Mayfield
- Red Pirate (1997) – directed by Chi-Hwa Chen
- X-Men (2000)* – directed by Bryan Singer – assistant fight choreographer, translator
- The One (2001) – directed by James Wong – assistant action choreography director
- Second Time Around (2002) – directed by Jeffrey Lau
- 2046 (2004) – directed by Wong Kar-wai – assistant director
- Finding ʻOhana (2021) – directed by Jude Weng
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)* – directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
- Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) – directed by Mike Mitchell & Stephanie Ma Stine
- Love Hurts (2025)* – directed by Jonathan Eusebio
- The Electric State (2025) – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo
- Zootopia 2 (2025)* – directed by Jared Bush & Byron Howard
- Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026) – directed by Lauren Montgomery
