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Willis was
born as the middle child of three siblings at Garfield
Hospital in Monterey Park. Growing up, as his parents
struggle to keep the family fed, his family constantly moved
between New York and Los Angeles. As a result, he has
found the balance between the East Coast aggressive nature as
well as a Californian laid back style.
Growing up
as a child of Taiwanese decent, Willis was forced to learn
Mandarin Chinese, which became very practical use in his
career pursuit. Presently, he continues to advance
himself as he branches out to Japanese and Korean.
Alongside
his education in the academics, Willis grew up studying the
Wushu form of martial arts. At the request of the
Master, Willis also branched out into Tai Chi. His
disciplined ethics has earned him one gold medal, two silver
medals, and two bronze medals in his first of
competing. Under the straight
discipline of his parents, Willis was required to begin piano
lessons at the age of five. Willis has accumulated about
six years of formal training, and continued to grow on his own
musically.
As Willis
graduated from Walnut High School, he had difficulties
deciding on a major, resulting in his decision to attend the
local community college. His original choice of becoming
a nurse was scraped immediately after the end of his first
semester as he asked himself "What the hell am I thinking?"
He then took on accounting which led him to a job at his local
branch of Bank of America, working as a Teller. His hard
work there promoted him to be a personal Banker.
However on
one October night, just before Willis was about to accept his
promotion as a Personal Banker, he received a phone call that
changed his life. He "accidentally" picked up his
brother's phone and a woman by the name of Stephanie asked if
he would like to be in a movie. Out of curiosity, and
doubting the authenticity of the phone call, Willis questioned
Stephanie as to the name of the movie. It was The
Fast and the Furious 3. Believing Stephanie, Willis
agreed to participate in the filming, and the rest is of
course as they say... Hollywood History.
...Hollywood
history of course is still being made. On the set of
The Fast and the Furious 3, Willis gained his first
Hollywood set experience. After two long and
excruciating weeks, Willis returned to the depressed reality
of banking. But as Lady Luck and the Spirit of Hollywood
would have it, on one fine day, he received a voicemail
offering him the supporting role of "Teahair Gangster" In the
Fast and the Furious 3, which he immediately agreed to
and taken a long (very long) leave of absence from the bank.
Willis was then welcomed to the Screen Actors Guild.
As a
Teahair Gangster, Willis had the opportunity to meet various
people on set, including the stars of the movie as well as the
Director Justin Lin. However, Willis is most thankful
that he met the rest of his fellow Teahair Gangsters, who had
tutored and nourished Willis to understand the industry.
Willis is extremely thankful of Masa Kanome, who has been
there for him 100% up to day to help him become a professional
Actor. Masa referred Willis to his Print Agency (TAG
Models) and encouraged him to submit to the well-known
Commercial Agency (Cunningham Escott Slevin Doherty) which
began representing Willis on the 17th of October 2006!
Willis is
now a film major, and focused on becoming a working
Professional Actor. He has even started a production
company to help independent directors and student directors
produce independent short films in a professional manner.
But of course... Willis' acting
comes before producing.

Biography written by
Paul Kwo.
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