Bio: Suzanne Joe is a feature writer and editor of AsianConnections.com.
She produces exclusive Hollywood celebrity interviews for television, print and online syndication. Her firm is the online partner to YanCanCook.com, the official site of TV Chef Martin Yan, and BenFongTorres.com, the official site of writer and former senior editor of Rolling Stone Magazine's Ben Fong-Torres.
An Emmy nominated journalist, Suzanne was on the air as a broadcast news reporter, TV program host, and documentary producer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has worked for KCBS (CBS NewsRadio-San Francisco), KRON-TV (NBC-San Francisco), KTVU-TV (Oakland), KGO-TV (ABC-San Francisco), and KGUN-TV (ABC-Arizona). She has a masters degree in Communication from Stanford.
In her other 'day job' she is president of CSI International, an international investment firm representing private and corporate investors specializing in U.S. and Asian projects.
Just a few years ago Terence Yin was a UC Berkeley student aspiring to become a medical consultant. Terence is now a Hong Kong movie star and a singer with 19 films, two TV dramas and a supporting role in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.
The Paramount Pictures movie starring Angelina Jolie and Gerard Butler is the sequel to the hit Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Directed by Jan de Bont.
Steve: Terence, you come from an acting background. Can you tell us about it, and how it has influenced you?
Terence: Both my parents were actors. My mom was a famous actress in Hong Kong. My father was a famous director and actor. The fact that they were in the business never really influenced my childhood that much, basically I grew up in LA.
But, I guess in the end, it influenced me quite a bit. Because when I went back to Hong Kong to work over the summer, I met one of their friends, who is my manager now, Willie Chen. He is the one responsible for bringing me back to Hong Kong, to get me started in the film business there. And I’ve been there ever since.
Steve: What was your summer job?
Terence: I was working at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. I was basically an intern, a secretary, a slave-boy. And I never thought that I was going to look for opportunities in acting or show business. It just kind of happened.
Steve: What was your original plan, what was your major at UC Berkeley?
Terence: I was a rhetoric major. My original plan was I was going to work as a medical consultant for a few years and see where that takes me. And maybe go to business school and kind of take it from there.
Steve: The straight arrow kind of path.
Terence: I was pretty straight arrow actually! (laughter)
Steve: How was going to school at UC Berkeley? I’m from the Bay Area, too. I’m actually from San Francisco.
Do you miss it at all?
Terence: I miss Berkeley. I had so much fun in college. It was just a good time. I was really busy, I was learning a lot. I was working throughout the four years. I actually didn’t have much time, but I had so much fun. College is the best four years of your life.
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