Jack Ong
Actor, Writer and Activist
Co-Organizes AACTION

Send Email to Jack: JackOng@AsianConnections.com.

Veteran actor, writer and activist Jack Ong co-organized a group in Fall, 1999 called Asian American Coalition for Total Inclusion On the Networks (AACTION) in response to news of U.S. network television's new 1999-2000 prime time schedule which featured not a single nonwhite leading character or theme on any of the 26 new series on the four major networks.

Ong joined many others who have endorsed an official statement jointly released by AACTION, East West Players and the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA). AsianConnections.com posted a message board and delivered email from its members wishing to join the more than 1,000 people who endorsed this Statement by signing the endorsement list.

Ong has guest starred on such TV shows as "Touched By An Angel," "Chicago Hope," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Friends," "The Simpsons," "VIP," and co-starred in the world premiere stage production of "The Reunification Hotel" by Julian Barry, award-winning author of "Lenny." Ong is Executive Director of the Dr. Haing S. Ngor Foundation, a humanitarian organization which he co-founded with Dr. Ngor five years before the Oscar-winning Cambodian actor was killed. Ong is producing a documentary and writing a play about Dr. Ngor's life, murder and legacy of humanitarian work.

A former member of the Screen Actors Guild board of directors, Ong currently co-chairs the SAG/AFTRA Asian Pacific Islander caucus, serves on the East West Players new Theatre Campaign, directs a drama ministry at the Pacific Christian Center in Manhattan Beach, CA, and is active with Amnesty International and various human rights advocacy groups.  He is writing and performing a series of Asian fairy tales with Raw Space Studios and Pacific Radio in New York.

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