Biography
Jimmy O. Yang is a Hong Kong–American stand-up comedian and actor. Born Au-yeung Man-sing on 11 June 1987 in British Hong Kong, he moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of 13. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in economics in 2009.
Yang began performing stand-up comedy in his early twenties and made his first late-night television appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 2014, receiving a standing ovation. He is best known for playing Jian-Yang in the HBO series Silicon Valley (2014–2019), initially in a recurring role before becoming a series regular. Other notable credits include Bernard Tai in Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and Dun Meng in Patriots Day (2016). He is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese and English.
