Reiko Aylesworth, Michelle on 24- is she at least part-Asian? I can’t seem to find much on her.
One of the “Slayers-in-Training” on Buffy is Asian.
Suzanne Whang, an LA stand-up comic, is pretty ubiquitous in shows like VIP and Strong Medicine. I went to high school with her!
In that case, the ex-principal (and, obviously, his son) on Smallivlle.
And Chau (Chow?) from Off Centre.
And, um, that kid from That 80s Show.
And Dean Cain (Lois & Clark, Ripley’s Believe it or Not) who’s 1/2 (IIRC) Japanese.
Dean Cain is a quarter Japanese.
BobT:
The former are male, whereas the latter tend to be female.
Dean Cain’s quarter Japanese? I never would have guessed.
You don’t really notice it until you’re told, and then you can see it.
Yeah, it’s in the hair. 
If we’re going to branch out and hijack, consider:
Keanu Reeves
Pheobe Cates
Tia Carrera
All have some Asian blood in them.
Thanks for clarifying actor vs. actress, Fiver. 
Plenty of character actors playing doctors are Indian, though I couldn’t tell you their names :D.
InTransit:
I’m here for you, buddy.
Apparently Ming Na wasn’t enough for ER - tonight they introduced another Asian female doctor.
Fortunately, Asian-American women make up for their scarcity in prime-time entertainment by holding down about 70% of all local TV news reporter jobs (or at least it seems like that sometimes).
Anybody know why that is, exactly? Is it the easy-on-the-eyes factor (I’ll admit to having a certain bias here)? Or are they somehow just that much more trustworthy than eveyone else?
Hijack? What hijack?
Kellye Nakahara played the rather chubby Nurse Kellye on MASH* as far back as 1973, so it’s not all about “easy-on-the-eyes”, nor it is it exclusively a recent phenomenon.
Nakahara is from Hawaii and identified her character’s ethnic background in one rather forced scene that I’ll quote as best I can from memory:
Alan Alda: We need a [larger aortic graft for this critically-ill patient]
Nakahara: Doctor, I’m half-Japanese and half-Hawaiian. Can you put in terms I can understand?
Alda: A small egg roll.
Nakahara: That, I can understand. We don’t have one that big.
France Nuyen (who is easy on the eyes) is of French-Vietnemese ancestry . Her credits include two seasons of St. Elsewhere and the original I Spy TV series. Plus she got Captain Kirk to fall in love with her, so she deserves special mention just for that.
Kim Miyori also had two seaons on St. Elsewhere (though earlier than Nuyen’s, which kinda suggests they were deliberately going for demographic casting).
She was also Bloody Mary’s daughter in South Pacific. where she took ‘easy on the eyes’ to a much higher level.