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"Community" fans: new show starring actor who played "Chang": "Dr. Ken"
"Dr. Ken" starts Friday Oct 2, 2015 at 8:31 PM on ABC.
It stars Ken Jeong. who played "Chang" on "Community".
He is actually a real doctor in real life.
In real life, his wife is also a doctor, she encouraged him to pursue acting full-time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3216608/
Dr. Ken (2015– )
TV Series | 21 min | Comedy
Series Premiere Fri, Oct 02 at 8:31 PM on ABC
A frustrated doctor juggles his career, marriage, and family.
Stars: Albert Tsai, Ken Jeong, Suzy Nakamura |
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAyOTI3MTUyMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDA2MjM4NjE@._V1_SY317_CR0,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
Dr. Ken (2015– )
TV Series | 21 min | Comedy
Series Premiere Fri, Oct 02 at 8:31 PM on ABC
A frustrated doctor juggles his career, marriage, and family.
Stars: Albert Tsai, Ken Jeong, Suzy Nakamura |
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAyOTI3MTUyMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDA2MjM4NjE@._V1_SY317_CR0,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
https://www.returndates.com/news.php?id=848
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jeong
Dr. Kendrick Kang-Joh "Ken" Jeong (Korean: 정강조 Jeong Kang-jo, born July 13, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, musician and physician.[1][2][3] He is best known for his roles as Ben Chang on the critically acclaimed NBC/Yahoo! comedy series Community and gangster Leslie Chow in The Hangover trilogy.
Early life
Jeong was born in Detroit to South Korean immigrants, Young and Dong-Kuen Jeong. His father was a professor at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.[4][5][6] He was raised in Greensboro and attended Walter Hines Page High School, where he took part in the High IQ team,[7] played violin in the orchestra, and was elected to student council. He graduated at 16 and his achievements earned him Greensboro's Youth of the Year award.[4] He completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1990 and obtained his M.D. degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995.[3]
Career
Medicine
Jeong completed his internal medicine residency at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans while developing his stand-up comedy.[8] Jeong is a licensed physician in the state of California.[9]
Acting
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Personal life
Jeong's wife, Tran Ho, is Vietnamese American, a family physician and a breast cancer survivor.[20] They have two children.[21][22] Jeong became engaged to Ho around 2003 or 2004.[23]
Jeong was encouraged by his wife to quit his job as a physician and pursue acting full-time; Jeong states that "I had just finished filming Knocked Up, and it was life-changing. But I didn't have the courage to go for it until she persuaded me. Medicine is a hard-won skill, and acting can be a fickle profession, so I tried to be realistic. Now, I'm a spoiled actor. I get weekends off and hiatus weeks — time I never got as a doctor".[24]
Dr. Kendrick Kang-Joh "Ken" Jeong (Korean: 정강조 Jeong Kang-jo, born July 13, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, musician and physician.[1][2][3] He is best known for his roles as Ben Chang on the critically acclaimed NBC/Yahoo! comedy series Community and gangster Leslie Chow in The Hangover trilogy.
Early life
Jeong was born in Detroit to South Korean immigrants, Young and Dong-Kuen Jeong. His father was a professor at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.[4][5][6] He was raised in Greensboro and attended Walter Hines Page High School, where he took part in the High IQ team,[7] played violin in the orchestra, and was elected to student council. He graduated at 16 and his achievements earned him Greensboro's Youth of the Year award.[4] He completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1990 and obtained his M.D. degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995.[3]
Career
Medicine
Jeong completed his internal medicine residency at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans while developing his stand-up comedy.[8] Jeong is a licensed physician in the state of California.[9]
Acting
<snip>
Personal life
Jeong's wife, Tran Ho, is Vietnamese American, a family physician and a breast cancer survivor.[20] They have two children.[21][22] Jeong became engaged to Ho around 2003 or 2004.[23]
Jeong was encouraged by his wife to quit his job as a physician and pursue acting full-time; Jeong states that "I had just finished filming Knocked Up, and it was life-changing. But I didn't have the courage to go for it until she persuaded me. Medicine is a hard-won skill, and acting can be a fickle profession, so I tried to be realistic. Now, I'm a spoiled actor. I get weekends off and hiatus weeks — time I never got as a doctor".[24]
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