Ronny Chieng Biography
Ronny Chieng is a Malaysian actor and comedian. Chieng is currently a senior correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and the creator and star of the sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student, which debuted in 2017 on ABC (Australia) and Comedy Central Asia.
Ronny Chieng Age
Chieng is 36 years old as of 2021. He was born Ronny Xin Yi Chieng on 21 November 1985 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
Ronny Chieng Height
Chieng stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m).
Ronny Chieng Family
Chieng was born into a Chinese Malaysian family. He was born in Singapore and raised in the United States, where he lived in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994.
Ronny Chieng Wife
Hannah enjoys traveling, and she and her husband’s careers have taken them to various Asian and European countries, as well as several US states – she is currently residing in New York with Ronny. Hannah was raised in Melbourne with her brother Bruce and sister Christine by their father, who has stayed out of the spotlight, and their mother, Julie Pham, who is a housewife – both Hannah’s siblings are married and live in Melbourne with their families.
Ronny Chieng Education
Chieng is married. He is married to Hannah Pham, a Vietnamese-Australian on 9 September 2016. He commuted to Fuchun Primary School in neighboring Singapore when he lived in Johor Bahru. In Singapore, he later attended Pioneer Secondary School and Pioneer Junior College. He studied at the University of Melbourne in Australia, where he lived at Trinity College. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce in finance and a Bachelor of Laws in 2009. He also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Australian National University in 2012.
Ronny Chieng Net Worth
Chieng has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Ronny Chieng International Student
Chieng’s television comedy series Ronny Chieng: International Student was first screened on ABC in 2017. It follows comedian Ronny Chieng’s adventures as an international student, which is a fictionalized account of his own experiences as a law student at the University of Melbourne. The series premiered in 2016 as part of ABC’s anthology series Comedy Showroom, which featured six half-hour comedy TV pilots. The pilot for Ronny Chieng: International Student was successful, and a full series was ordered.
Ronny Chieng Crazy Rich Asians
In Crazy Rich Asians, a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film, Chieng played Edison “Eddie” Cheng, Nick and Astrid’s cousin and Fiona’s husband from Hong Kong. After purchasing the rights to the book, the film was announced in August 2013. Many of the cast members signed on in the spring of 2017, and filming took place in Singapore, Malaysia, and New York City from April to June of that year.
It is the first major Hollywood studio film since The Joy Luck Club in 1993 to feature a majority cast of Chinese descent in a modern setting. Despite this, the film received some criticism for casting biracial actors in certain roles rather than fully ethnically Chinese actors. The film was also chastised for failing to include non-Chinese Singaporean ethnic groups, such as Malay and Indian actors, as characters.
Ronny Chieng Netflix
Ronny co-created and stars in his own sitcom, “Ronny Chieng: International Student,” which airs on Comedy Central and Netflix. Ronny’s debut smash hit Netflix Stand Up Comedy Special “Asian Comedian Destroys America” was released in December 2019. He is absolutely certain that no one is reading this.
Ronny Chieng Career
Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah at a comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia, in 2013. Two years later, he was invited to audition for the correspondent role on Noah’s show, The Daily Show. Variety named him one of the top ten comics to watch in July 2016. Chieng appeared on The Daily Show in October 2016 to respond to a Jesse Watters Fox News segment that many saw as racist. Chieng slammed the conservative network’s segment with expletives. He also returned to New York City’s Chinatown, where Watters had mocked residents, and conducted more respectful Mandarin and Cantonese interviews. The video quickly went viral, and it was covered by The Washington Post and Slate.com.
Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, was his American feature debut in 2018. Netflix began streaming his stand-up special, “Asian Comedian Destroys America!” in 2019, in which he jokes about consumerism, racism, and immigrants. Chieng was cast in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in April 2020. Destin Daniel Cretton directs the film, which will be released in theaters on September 3, 2021. Chieng will co-write a Sony Martial Arts action-comedy film with The Daily Show collaborator Sebastian DiNatale in July 2021. Chieng is an avid watch collector who began with a Seiko 5 purchased during his university years in Australia.
His watch collection has been featured on an episode of Hodinkee’s online series Talking Watches, which includes a rare variant of the Seiko Chronograph Ref. 6139-6010 that is widely recognized as having been worn by Hong Kong American martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, as well as a vintage GMT-Master Ref. 16753 “Root Beer.” One of his watches, a two-tone Rolex Datejust from 1984 that he inherited from his late father, was valued at US$5000 and appeared on an episode of Antiques Roadshow.
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