Tzi MaFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Chinese American actor Tzi Ma has an impressively long résumé, with roles on everything from The Cosby Show to Walker, Texas Ranger. Guest appearances would be Ma's bread and butter, but the versatile actor would also cultivate a successful career in film, portraying many memorable characters in...Read More

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Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson, Margo Martindale, Tzi Ma

Synopsis: After a one-night fling, a motel manager (Steve Zahn) impulsively follows a small-time art dealer (Jennifer Aniston) across the country in this romantic comedy from playwright-turned-director Stephen Belber. Woody Harrelson co-stars as Aniston's wealthy boyfriend in the MGM production. ~ Jeremy Read More

5/15/09
Battle in Seattle

Actors: Charlize Theron, André Benjamin, Martin Henderson, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Jennifer Carpenter

Synopsis: Actor-turned-filmmaker Stuart Townsend makes his screenwriting and directorial debut with this ensemble film set during the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle and presenting the riots that swept through the streets during the five-day conference from the perspectives of police Read More

9/19/08
Rush Hour 3

Actors: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: In this third installment of the popular action comedy franchise, LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) and Chief Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) book a flight for Europe and prepare to clean up the streets of Paris after discovering that Chinese triads have extended their criminal influence to Read More

8/10/07
Baby

Actors: David Huynh, Ron Yuan, Tzi Ma, Feodor Chin, Aljarreau Galang

Synopsis: An East Los Angeles adolescent cements his entry into a life of crime by falling in with the gangsters next door and committing an act of violence that may well define his entire life in director/co-writer (along with Felix Chan) Juwan Chung's unforgiving look at the violent world of inner city Read More

2007
Red Doors

Actors: Jacqueline Kim, Elaine Kao, Tzi Ma, Kathy Shao-Lin Lee, Mia Riverton

Synopsis: The retired patriarch of a New York-based Chinese-American family finds that escaping the insanity of his decidedly dysfunctional clan is more difficult than he anticipated in a thoughtful family drama from writer/director Georgia Lee. There was a time when the Wong's were happy, but time has a Read More

9/8/06
Akeelah and the Bee

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Keke Palmer, Curtis Armstrong, Tzi Ma

Synopsis: A young girl learns to believe in herself and value her intelligence in this critically-acclaimed, family-friendly drama. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is an 11-year-old being raised by her mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), who was left on her own after the death of her husband. While Akeelah is a Read More

4/28/06
Dragon Boys

Actors: Byron Mann, Steph Song, Tzi Ma, Christina Ma, Simon Wong

2006
The Slanted Screen: Asian Men in Film & Television

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jeff Adachi turns his critical lens on Hollywood in order to highlight the dangerous but seldom explored reality of cinematic prejudice. With fifty film clips spanning a century on the silver screen, Adachi chronicles the experiences of Asian men in American cinema. From ethnic Read More

2006
The Ladykillers

Actors: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Irma P. Hall, Tzi Ma

Synopsis: One of the best-loved films from the idiosyncratic British film studio Ealing Pictures gets an update from the equally idiosyncratic filmmaking team of Joel and Ethan Coen in this offbeat comedy. Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall) is a spry, elderly woman who attends church regularly, doesn't care for Read More

3/26/04
Law & Order: The Wheel

Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: The charred body of a young Asian woman is found huddled near an apartment elevator. At first, it appears that the victim may have set herself on fire in protest over religious differences with the Chinese consul general. Ultimately, however, a murder case is assembled and a suspect brought into Read More

2002
ER: Tell Me Where It Hurts

Synopsis: Nathan's (Don Cheadle) bedside manner -- or lack of same -- alienates him from his fellow doctors. Kovac's (Goran Visnjic) personal problems again spill over into his work. Abby (Maura Tierney) finds out that her missing brother, Eric, is in big trouble with the Air Force. And Weaver (Laura Innes) Read More

2002
NYPD Blue: Fools Russian

Synopsis: Baldwin Jones (Henry Simmons) gets into a racial confrontation with new ADA Valerie Haywood (Garcelle Beauvais-Nillon) over a case involving a dead Russian, his bigoted wife, and a black gardener. Greg Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) calls in his old friend, Chinatown detective Harold Ng (Tzi Ma), to make Read More

2001
Hawaiian Gardens

Actors: André Eisermann, Richard Bradford, Shareen J. Mitchell, Michael Grimm

2001
The Velocity of Gary

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Tzi Ma, Salma Hayek, Vincent D'Onofrio, Thomas Jane, Olivia D'Abo, Chad Lindberg

Synopsis: Dan Ireland directed this romantic comedy-drama (adapted by James Still from his own play) about a romantic triangle. Doughnut shop waitress Mary Carmen (Salma Hayek) is the girlfriend of bisexual porn star Valentino (Vincent D'Onofrio), but she's frozen out after Valentino gets a look at Read More

7/16/99
Chain Reaction

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Just as the university research team is about to prove that their new technique will permit water to be used as a fuel, their laboratory is sabotaged and the lab manager is killed. Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) stumbles onto the scene and manages not only to witness the sabotage, but to escape Read More

1996
NYPD Blue: Sorry, Wrong Suspect

Synopsis: The Medavoys have split up again: Greg (Gordon Clapp) leaves home and camps out at the precinct station, while Marie (Deborah Taylor) finally meets her husband's "significant other," Donna (Gail O'Grady). A curious tattoo leads Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone (Jimmy Smits) to a Chinese Read More

1996
Golden Gate

Actors: Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby, Teri Polo, Tzi Ma

Synopsis: Playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) wrote this ambitious epic that attempts to examine the communist witch hunts of the 1950s, racial prejudice, abuse of governmental powers, guilt, and suicide. The film begins in 1952 as an eager young FBI recruit, Kevin Walker (Matt Dillon), finds Read More

1994
NYPD Blue: Cop Suey

Synopsis: Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel) discreetly advises the divorce-bound Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) to keep his romantic involvement with Donna (Gail O'Grady) under wraps -- at least in public. An abused woman whom Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) tried to help ends up dead. Kelly (David Caruso) and an Asian-American Read More

1994
Rapid Fire

Actors: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Raymond J. Barry, Kate Hodge

Synopsis: In this better-than-average kick-boxer foray, Brandon Lee (son of famed martial-arts film star, Bruce Lee) stars as a young art student who happens to witness a drug murder and is placed in protective custody by federal agents. It's not too long before he realizes that the only real protection he Read More

8/21/92
Robocop 2

Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: The serialized story structure and barbed social commentary from comic book creator and co-writer Frank Miller earned critical respect in this satirical science fiction sequel directed by Irvin Kershner. Peter Weller returns as RoboCop, a futuristic cyborg fashioned from cutting-edge technology Read More

6/22/90
Forbidden Nights

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Robin Shou

Synopsis: Forbidden Nights is set in the Red China of 1979. Robin Shou plays a Chinese radical, working on behalf of bringing political reform to his homeland. Melissa Gilbert costars as an American teacher who falls in love with Shou. The dramatic thrust of the story is Ms. Gilbert's willingness to put her Read More

1990
Yellowthread Street [TV Series]

Actors: Ray Lonnen, Mark McGann, Catherine Neilson, Bruce Payne, Tzi Ma

Synopsis: One of a handful of British "culture clash" cop shows of the 1990s, Yellowthread Street was set in Hong Kong during its waning days as a British colony. The six hour-long episodes focused on a group of police officers stationed in one of the colony's toughest and most vice-ridden districts. Read More

1990
The Forgotten

Actors: Stacy Keach, Keith Carradine, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Forgotten deserves at least a small niche in TV history as the first-ever TV movie made especially for the USA cable network. Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in Read More

1989
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Samaritan Snare

Synopsis: The Enterprise transports Picard to Starbase Scylla 515 for a heart operation. During his absence, Geordi is taken hostage by the Pakleds, a group of primitive aliens who are in dire need of Geordi's technical expertise. The rest of the episode cuts back in forth between Picard's fight for Read More

1989
The Money Pit

Actors: Shelley Long, Tom Hanks, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: Adapting the themes of the 1948 film Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, this comedy stars Tom Hanks as Walter Fielding, who with his love Anna (Shelley Long) decides to buy a suburban New York home for next-to-nothing. Both Anna and Walter are willing to fix what ails the house and since they Read More

3/26/86
The Cosby Show: Father's Day

Synopsis: The family can't understand why Cliff (Bill Cosby) is behaving in such an eccentric fashion, tooling around the house in the oldest clothes he can find. It turns out that Cliff is on the verge of giving an object lesson, which culminates with his hauling out the many inappropriate Father's Days Read More

1984
They All Laughed

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Dorothy Stratten, Colleen Camp, John Ritter

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich wrote and directed this quirky romantic comedy that was shelved by Twentieth Century-Fox for a year, until Bogdanovich purchased the film from Fox and tried to distribute it himself, with limited success. Suave John Russo (Ben Gazzara), inept Charles Rutledge (John Ritter), and Read More

1981