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Kelvin Yu        

Emmy Award-Winning Actor & Writer Known for "Master of None" & "Bob's Burgers"

Kelvin Yu is an actor, executive producer, and Emmy-winning writer on the hit animated series “Bob's Burgers” on FOX. He is also an executive producer of the “Central Park” animated series on Apple TV+. Yu is the creator, executive producer, and writer for the Disney+ series "American Born Chinese," based on a graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang.

In addition to his other works, Yu is known for playing Aziz Ansari’s best friend ‘Brian’ in the Netflix series “Master of None.” Other notable acting credits include “Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip”, “Milk,” “Star Trek,” and “Wonder Woman 1984." Yu was featured in the series “The Afterparty” opposite Ike Barinholtz, Dave Franco, and Sam Richardson on AppleTV+.

A native of Los Angeles, Yu is a graduate of UCLA, where he majored in Film, Theatre, and Television, and is an outspoken advocate for diversity and empowerment in the Asian-American community.

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How Actor and Writer Kelvin Yu Redirected His “Flawed” Hollywood Business Model
How Actor and Writer Kelvin Yu Redirected His “Flawed” Hollywood Business Model.
With Alan Yang's Tigertail, the American Dream Gets Personal ...
... (Kelvin Yu) spend half an hour grappling with the guilt-ridden, at times comically absurd gulf between their own lived experiences and those of their immigrant ...
Alan Yang Imagines His Parents' Life in “Tigertail” | The New Yorker
... a kind of dramatic variation of the celebrated episode “Parents,” in which Ansari's character and the one based on Yang (played by Kelvin Yu) contemplate the ...

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